Tame thyself!

There's a little part of all of us that still needs taming. We may be older and "wiser" now but there's still that gnawing, whiney part in our heads that yearns to get out! The part that seems to have a mind of its own sometimes that takes over and there's nothing you can do to stop it! Maybe it's a past that won't go away and rears its ugly head at the wrong possible time. Maybe it's a bad habit that no matter how hard you try you just keep going back to it. Maybe it is a very literal wildside. A night when you turn away from your stories on the telly and daydream about loud clubs, late nights, adventures that begin in a friend's living room, and end up in the Bellagio in Vegas.
For some creatures, like humans, it's complicated, frustrating, and written deep into our hearts. For others, like animals, it is just ...well...something else...
like a tail...

While it may take years for humans to tame our wild sides, for animals it just takes a different placement of the paw. Some humans may resort to delving deep into study, devote themselves to raising children, surround themselves with tasks, or attend places of worship for solace and humility. Humans live everyday to keep that wild side at bay, to keep it tamed. However, I believe animals have it easy. Any true wild side they have is pure instinct. It is what helps them survive. A lion's wild side gives him the adrenaline rush to take down a gazelle, a bird of prey has the wild side to swoop down and kill their prey, and a buck's wild side drives him to crash his antlers against another's for approval and dominance. Those sides cannot be tamed, it helps them survive. But some animals simply actually have a part of them that needs to be tamed. Not because it will ruin their life...but because even they can irritate themselves. For domestic animals (mainly cats) it seems their wild sides have taken residence in their tail. I know that is true of Bugg. He flaps it around and sometimes he even gets sick of it. He simply looks at his untamed appendage and STOMPS ON THEM! He says to his inscrutable tail "damn you! you must stop you terrible thing! why must you wag? why must you flap at such an indecent time? if you insist on doing that irritating movement...I shall stomp on you!"
And that's exactly what Bugg did. And he tamed it. He tamed it real good. The dang tail suffocated under his death grip and soon learned its lesson...for now...
And when Bugg spazzes out and runs around the house...I think that is when his tail has gotten the best of him. All that energy that has been contained in his skinny little appendage...has been let go....