Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Words

I always thought "feral" meant "wild" but apparently not so.  A wild animal is wild, is wild, and evermore shall be so.  A feral animal, on the other hand, is living wild, but can become domesticated.  Anybody who has been on holiday in Spain or the Balearics has almost certainly come across those scrawny cats that tend to congregate in the grounds of hotels and complexes and beg for food and, perhaps to a lesser extent, affection.  Well, they're feral. Anybody though of putting one in their bag and bringing it back home? I have.

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