The Deadly Sin of Gluttony

Most people have heard of the 7 Deadly Sins.  If you haven’t, they are:

Anger

Envy

Gluttony

Greed

Lust

Pride

Sloth

 So what do the 7 Deadly Sins have to do with anything on the farm?  Well, it seems people aren’t the only ones affected by these sins.

It’s like this. . . I knew something was helping the peafowl eat their food.  I’d fill up the bowl, and every morning it would be empty again.  It usually lasts for at least 2 or 3 days, so I knew some other critter was helping eat the food.

Well, now I know what it was.

Yep, the rat was no doubt used to crawling through the chicken wire fence to get into the peafowl pen, chowing down on the dog food in the greed food bowl, then back out and home.  (I know it was supposed to be greeN food bowl, but it was such a good Freudian slip I left it in.)

Only this time the rat ate a little too much.  His too fat stomach would no longer fit through the holes in the chicken wire and he got stuck. 

It was deathly cold.   He couldn’t move.  So he froze to death.

While the rotten rat’s death certificate might give the cause of death as hypothermia, that’s not the real reason he died.  Nope, he died because he ate too much and could no longer fit through the holes in the chicken wire and get out of the cold.

So there you have it. . . Death by Gluttony.