Pffff, Da Beat took a cat picture. Can you imagine?
A cat in full domestic camouflage, which did make him wonder about evolution. Do we really breed those color varieties because we like them? Because they fit our domestic environment? We happen to like our homes nice and tidy in the Netherlands. With neat, unremarkable colorschemes, everything singularly flat, teetering on the edge of dull.
And that's okay. It keeps a bunch of people cramped together on too little space from continuously annoying each other. But I always secretly wish for that true grand dame wearing a bright red dress, stepping out of her equally bright red Italian convertible, and with an actual panther following in her footsteps. For her it's like walking the dog. In full control of the predator.
In the Netherlands we control our predators differently. They build and paint homes and houses in unremarkably flat singular colorschemes, never any excesses, and by consequence, our cats have become equally dull. Metaphorically enough?