{"id":131,"date":"2011-08-30T19:22:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T19:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/?p=131"},"modified":"2011-08-30T19:23:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T19:23:03","slug":"cat-bag-and-deep-water-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Cat, bag and deep water body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new garden, the lawn is in reasonable nick and there are no flowers or plants yet because we&#8217;ve just moved in.\u00a0 It&#8217;s no golf course fairway but it&#8217;ll do.\u00a0 My back is turned, I go to make a cup of tea or something, come back and some cat or other has deposited a particularly filthy shit slap bang in the middle of my grass.\u00a0 Fucking thing.\u00a0 The sparse green broken by the mucky brown of a cat&#8217;s ablution.\u00a0 I despair I really do.\u00a0 This is going to be the start of something I can feel it, I can smell it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now been over a year, this house is great.\u00a0 There are now borders dug, plants planted and the lawn is as average as ever.\u00a0 The cat is still smothering it&#8217;s faeces around my greenery like a small, hairy tramp with a particularly fithy bowel condition.\u00a0 The little spiteful fuck.<\/p>\n<p>There are hundreds of ways to stop the feline wanker doing this apparently.\u00a0 Everyone has a solution &#8211; &#8220;Lemon peel all over the grass, that works!\u00a0 Cat&#8217;s don&#8217;t like lemons!&#8221; is one I&#8217;ve heard, &#8220;Orange peel all over your lawn, that works.\u00a0 Cat&#8217;s don&#8217;t like orange peel!&#8221; is another.\u00a0 &#8220;Fill an empty cola bottle full of water and put it on the lawn, it reflects the sun (or something), the cat&#8217;s don&#8217;t like that!&#8221;\u00a0 Another suggestion I&#8217;d heard on at least 3 seperate occasions.\u00a0 &#8220;Buy some lion shit and hang it in your garden&#8221;.\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 &#8220;Get a dog!&#8221;\u00a0 That one I like, but isn&#8217;t really faesible.\u00a0 My favourite was &#8220;get yourself a cat! cat&#8217;s don&#8217;t like other cat&#8217;s!&#8221;.\u00a0 Fuck off.\u00a0 Other cat&#8217;s don&#8217;t like other cat&#8217;s, I don&#8217;t like cat&#8217;s.\u00a0 This person clearly does not get the irony of buying a cat to stop a cat appearing in your garden.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s double up the local cat population shall we?\u00a0 That should decrease the shit quota.<\/p>\n<p>The only solution I can think of for ridding the community of this smug, four legged, cunt is to set up a small mammal trap, bait it with something that cat&#8217;s like (mice? tweety pie? cake?)\u00a0 When the arsewipe has been caught, grab it by it&#8217;s neck and extract it from said trap, place it in a bin bag full of particularly weighty aggregate, drive to the banks of the Irwell and hoy the obnoxious crap factory from the car window whilst laughing maniacally screaming &#8220;I WIN YOU MUTHA-FUCKA!&#8221; at the splash in the steadily flowing river.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, there are 2 deposits on my lawn.\u00a0 They are of the same shade of brown as they always are.\u00a0 There is one cat that does this, it knows I don&#8217;t like it and it is a cat-bastard.\u00a0 May the lord strike it and it&#8217;s kind from the face of the earth to sanitise humanity from the most wretched of all the animal kingdoms species, the house cat.\u00a0 <em>Felis catus<\/em>, I damn you to hell!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new garden, the lawn is in reasonable nick and there are no flowers or plants yet because we&#8217;ve just moved in.\u00a0 It&#8217;s no golf course fairway but it&#8217;ll do.\u00a0 My back is turned, I go to make a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/?p=131\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonsense","category-roadkill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimandpaul.net\/selfindulgence\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}