In these two tales, paradise and bureaucracy both become stages for quiet tricksters. The heavenly cat, once exhausted and ordinary, thrives when divine generosity overlooks consequences. The mice, desperate for protection, discover that even mercy can be miscalculated, transforming safety into a faster, funnier chase. What was meant as kindness becomes an accidental upgrade for the predator, not the prey.
Back on Earth, the joke lands closer to home. Three men proudly showcase cats who mirror society’s ideals: precision, intelligence, usefulness. Then comes the government worker’s cat, thriving not by solving problems but by exploiting them—devouring work, multiplying confusion, weaponizing procedure, and vanishing on paid leave. The crowd laughs, but the stories leave a sharper truth behind: power often favors those who read the rules not to honor them, but to bend them, and sometimes to quietly profit from the chaos they create.
