Tobermory explained

 After reading the story, I feel as if Tobermory, the cat, was utilized as a symbol to how society is so quick to gossip and talk trash without being aware of their surroundings and who the information will get back to. Even I am guilty of this and because of it I have been confronted several times about talking bad about someone because either the person i told said the other individual something or someone heard while i was talking. Also, i think this story was written to exaggerate how influential, powerful, and somewhat dangerous society can be. Whether it really is teaching animals and nature how to interact with society on a social lever (talking, etc.) or whether it's mass killing animals/destroying nature, we really have a huge impact and one day it's going to come back and bite us in the ass or harm us just like the elephant did in one of the last paragraphs in the story.