Mongoose Manners

They are so cute! I like to see the mongoose gather at feeding time. Yes, we feed them. It started out about two years ago with one coming by every other day, and soon she brought the family. Now, we have her kids and her grandkids (we think they are all family). In total there are nine. We named her Mongy. Her family members have no names.

Three generations of mongoose later, with regular daily feeding they are still wild and ferocious at mealtime.

Mongy has manners. In the early years she would walk through the house, find someone then sit and wait until she was noticed and fed. But the kids, her kids, and the grandkids are terrible. Poor Mongy has food ripped from her mouth, in mean and nasty warfare.

We put out more than enough food, chicken livers, chicken necks and gizzards. Yet, they still fight and at times injure one another for food. To them this is the good stuff! This is the good life. It’s like social welfare – they don’t have to work for it and they get it. And, like with social welfare, they are never satisfied. They always want more.

Are we any different?

When we do not cultivate contentment and gratitude for what we have and we expect more because we think we deserve more, we are no different to Mongy’s family.

How about you? Do you fight and clamor for more and more. Or, are you content?

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