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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, is unable to help the keeper with the dilemma of continuing to accept identity as a member of the species that has the intelligence to build the most powerful weapons of destruction imaginable and then using those weapons to kill innocents in their beds.
The images of destroyed apartment buildings and body-bags as the Ukraine travesty continues make it impossible for the keeper to accept that his species could possibly be involved in something so utterly cruel and senseless; and that there is nothing he can do about it.
Nothing!
Better in his own best interests to resign from the species and be something else.
But what would that be?
Even the vicious honey badger, which grabs its prey by the face and claws out its guts, does not kill its own innocent young.
The keeper solicits species suggestions.  Dogs and cats have already turned him down; and have commented that they are insulted by his application to be one of them.