Useless?

I find this cat and this rat quite useful: to correct our vision of the world and make us think. Animals, and in particular cats, when "saved" from their condition in the wild, often become very civilized and peaceful indeed, given the chance. Not so too many humans. Do they even try? How many are there around who give them a good example? And if, they are hardly at the top: moving from a wild ranch in Texas to the "civilization" in the District of Columbia [like Napoleon moving up from wild Corsica ;-)], has not helped one. Sorry, Ron Paul, it's not you I mean of course. Rats have an undeserved bad reputation. Take them out of the ghetto of their gutters and the labyrinths of their sewers and they will soon be clean and move around in the salons as elegantly as any Oscar Wilde or Marcel Proust character... It only depends on their masters and models. Those we unfortunately have prefer to slander, to take away their dignity, and then kill "the rats" as well in the gutters and sewers as in Iraq and all other places their fake civilization tries to reach.