Survival of the fittest

[The Grand Nudger]

So I was at the shop to buy some vegetables and I happened to see a stray dog walk by, quite normal around here but....it made me think about something..

Dogs and cats.. Probably the top losers of their respective groups... If I'm not wrong it's said that dogs are descendants of wolves. Compare a dog to a wolf and the difference is big or compare cats to the "big cats" like lions and tigers and such.. A wolf can probably kill a dozen doggies and a lion can probably kill all the cats in the world if it wanted.

Sure..the difference is immense, as you noticed.  Wolves and big cats teeter on the edge of extinction while you can't throw a rock without hitting a dog or a cat. Personally, I;d put my money on the dog and cats, because there's just no scenario in which they;d be fighting wolves or lions without the presence of their companion species..us....and we all know how that went for the wolves and the lions.

 We praise these qualities now yet many years ago they must've been the biggest losers in the animal kingdom eating the leftovers of the "top dogs".

The ability to exploit human beings hardly made them losers then or now. They we're already apex predators and have remained so since. We were the ones..particularly in the case of dogs...that weren't -quite- on the top of the pile yet. The dogs helped us get there..so we moved on them like a bitch. The cats made civilization as we know it possible. They were so important...wars were fought(partially) over their theft. The dogs and cats helped us to effect the near extinction of the species above and the total or near extinction of a great many others as well.

But fate took a u turn, it decided to screw the strong and favor the weak. Survival of the fittest? 😏 time managed to change their weakness into a strength.

What is or is not fit or "fittest" changes depending on the environment.  For example, in the environment of my house..a small dog with low food requirements..a big nose and ears..a loud bark....energy for days, and the aggressiveness to course and kill under gunfire has a distinct reproductive and survival advantage. Easy will be the Mother of Puppies.

Just goes to show even if someone's having a hard time right now and feels like the world's biggest loser with time those weaknesses will turn into strengths. So everybody has a chance.

Yeah, no...and you couldn't have gotten this from the above.  It;s a comforting deepity, but time doesn't inexorably change weakness into strength.  If you're having a hard time, and you're the worlds biggest loser..change yourself in the present.  Time isn't going to do that for you.  What time does...is kill the ones that don't improve in time..and....ultimately, even the ones that do.