Indeed! It's occurred to me that we can Learn so Much of Survival, by "just" Watching our Cat!

Be it Survival, Stealth, Concealment, Tracking, Silence, Stalking, and Whatall Others.

A lot of the Benefit of this Exercise, is that it's a Good Way to First get Familiar with the Main Requirements, as Well as the various Chief "Subcategories" of General Survival.

I've been Thinking of sometime Making such a Post, on this Topic. I'm in effect Doing so now. This is a Good Oppurtunity to now Do so.

So "How Does your Cat Do It?!" Watch How it Eats! Or Stretches and Keeps Limber. Curls Up for Warmth. Sleeps. Conserves and Manages it's Energy. Keeps Warm. (It's Fur, Etc) And Dry! Rests. Hides. How they Jump! Their Great Sense of Balance! Their Footing. How they Go About Seeking and Getting it's Food! It's Utter Patience and Intent Watchfulness in Doing so! It'sScratch-Sharpening of it's Claws. It's Caution and Wariness! It's Sense of, and Use of it's of Sense of Smell, certainly Closer to a Dog's than we are! The Way it Sits in a Window or Elsewhere and Watches Things! And Listens for Things and Hears. The Way they Hiss / Pounce / Scratch / and Fight. How and Why they Keep Themselves Clean, and the Healthy Sanitation they Practice regarding their Wastes. Their Silence. Their Laying Low, (Literally and Figureatively), and Not Making Waves or Bothering Anybody. A Large Part of That, is in how They Themselves Don't Want to be Bothered. And On and On! How Does your Cat Do it?!

Or Dog? Along these Same Lines, -How is it Provided For by Other Normal, Often Taken for Granted, Aspects of Life?! Dog?

Or How's it All Provided For around the Average Home?! In other words, -How Does the Home Do It?!

How Do the Locals thruout our World Do It?!

How Do you and Others generally Do It within the Society and Economy? And How Does Society and the Economy as a general Whole, Do It?!

Of course Work or some Service is usually Done, you get Paid some of our Medium of Exchange known as Money. With Which you Go Out on some of your Free Time, to Buy / Obtain Food and Other Neccessities of Life. Or Pay a Rent or Mortgage, Towards Having and Retaining your Shelter! Your Electric, Gas, or Other Means of Warmth! And On and On!

But Just What is All Round Involved here?, -And Just How is it Generally Done? What Survival and Sustenance Items and Practices Do we so Take Care of?, with some of that Societal Money that we Earn? Just What Do We and Animals All Do!?, Towards This? How Do we Go About Doing It?!

Look, Think, and Watch on These Sometime! It's Really Interesting and Intrigueing to Think of!

We can then Tap Into Such, and Apply It! In a Better "Whole Picture" Awareness of Survival and Prep, and of What They Come Down To and are All About!

How Does your Cat Do it?! How is It Done via Other Things in Life?!

These Other (Common Societal) Means for Doing So, -are in a Sense just "Glorified Survival"!

We typically Get our Meat, Fish, Fruit, and Other Food, from a Supermarket or Other Store! Rather than Directly thru Nature and it's Elements. But the Store and Everyone Else Ultimately get their's from Nature and it's Elements! Even if that is via the "Semi-Natural" Means of Agriculture. "Survival Gardening" and Other Subsistence Food Provision, is also Such. So it's by No Means "Contrary" to Survival!

Someone Else somewhere in the Society has Grown It, in a "Favorably Conditioned" Area, for His or Her Own Economic / Survival Interests and Livlihood. It's then been Transported to your Store, by Others also Acting in their Own such Interests. You Do your Thing, and Earn your Buck or Pound. And Go to your Store with such, -Acquire such Food, -Satisfying that Part of your Survival Needs! On and On it Goes! I'll let this Food Example Alone Suffice.

This is Survival Too! This "Non-Survival" type of Survival, is the Glorified, Roundabout, Indirect, Normal Everyday Life sort of "Societal" Survival that I am talking about. It's a Glorified Such!, but Still a Sort of Survival All the Same!

So How Do we typically Go About Doing that?!

Even "Non-Survivors" so Survive!

(The Most Pacifistic Persons in the World!, are Still at Every Moment Fighting a Raging Battle and War!, -How? -Via their Immune System! Quite Ironic! But it's Evermuch So!),

Even Non-Survivors so Survive! -Via this Societal, Economic, Roundabout, and Glorified Form!

A Dancer, via His or Her Talent and Training, and a certain Demand or Market Out there for Their Talent, -Goes Forth Doing that Talent and Love of Their's, Earns Money for It, and then "Store Survives"! It's Still Survival, if it also is Much Non-Survival!

They Run into Trouble!, When the Normal Rug of their Survival Means, Gets occassionally Yanked Out from Under their Feet!

Then it Comes Down to Real Survival! Directly via, and In Accord With, -Nature and it's Elements!

Society Largely has Gotten Cut Off from Nature and the Land!

It'd Do them Well to Get Back into some Basic Touch with it! And Watching a Cat!, is a Good Way to Get some Idea of This! -A Good Way to Start!

It's like those many Country Power Outtages I Experienced when Younger, at the New House my Family Moved into! So What Do you Do when the Power Goes Out?! When the Well Runs Dry?! When the Normal (Societal) Survival Rug gets Pulled Out from Under your Feet?! When *Life's* such Power Outages may Occur!?

I Realize that Life Overall is More than just Survival Alone! We Live to Live! Not just Survive! Life is in the Living! We Dine!, Not just Merely Intake Food! Dining in Life!, while it's certainly In Part such Intake of Food, -is Also Something So Much More! Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone! Etc, Etc! I Do Beleive All of This!

But in Order to Live!, Indeed as a Part of Much of our Living, -We Must First Survive! It's just So Much of the Very Base upon which we Stand!

So I Think that People and Society in General, Shud Get Back in Touch!, with this Awareness!

Stores, Gas Stations, The Roads we Drive, -These are All Examples of our "Survival by Other Means", -Sort of "Power" that could Go Out! -"Extended Survival" This "Extended Form" of Survival is of course Not All It! But it's Slightly Deeper Survival Structure can be Looked At, For Insights into the Real, *Non* Extended Varieties of Survival! For such Times as One's "Extended Survival Power", May Suffer an Outtage!

So How Do we Do This?!, via our Such Indirect Means? Just How Do we typically Go About Doing This?!

Since Many in Society are More Familiar with these More Indirect Means, -Over Direct Survival Means! -This Then may be a Good Place for some to Start! To Start Getting their All Round Survival Awareness Up! It can be a Good Exercise for us More Familiar with Direct Survival, too.

So How Do we Do It?! How Do you Do It?! How Does Society Do It?! The Economy?! How Does your Home Do It?! How Do the Locals in Other Parts of the World Do It?!How Does your Cat, Dog, or Other Pet Do It?!

How is It that All of These?, -Go About their Imperative Task of Survival?! Just How? It can Point a Lot of the Direction we Shud Take!, in Emergencies, Disasters, or in the Wild!

A Cat can be Quite Very Instructive in This! It can Serve as a Very Good Start!

(This is to People in General, Not only to joblot.)

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