Thank you for sending me the link. It is a fabulous story!
It's a fable of human nature. I know so many people who are just like the mouse. Those people may not love snakes, but they do sometimes love cats in the same way that the mouse loves the snake. Are cats really all that different? Cats eat just as many lovable creatures as snakes do, maybe more, whether they catch them in the wild or out of a can.