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FROM YOU Look What the Cat Dragged in and Other Tails... Last week John begged you to come up with ways of preventing his cats, Stanley and Gladys, from bringing shrews and baby birds into the house to torment. Robin Becker wrote in with his solution,
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'Flo has a habit of catching various animals, dragging them inside through the cat door, and letting them loose so they can be chased for hours. Very cruel.
To put an end to this we have built a computer-controlled device that visually determines if Flo is carrying anything in her mouth when she enters, and if she does, it simply does not let her in.'
Clearly overkill, but probably pretty welcome if you're a small rodent.
Robin's website is :Flo Control Project
And from Viv Leyland
'John, you are harbouring grateful little hunters within your bosom. Put up a big "Welcome Shrew" sign in your kitchen and don't forget to thank your benefactors.'
On the subject of Dead cats, this story from Colin Humphries is hard to beat:
Marx, Engels and Weber were three feral cats adopted by Colin's family. (His daughter was studying sociology at the time). Weber and Engels went the way of all flesh - leaving Marx, an affectionate, average size black cat.
One day, the farmer next door called round to apologetically break the news that she had killed Marx. A bale had crushed him. She'd buried the cat and was very sorry.
Then the next night at meal time, in came Marx. And it was definitely Marx. The family started calling him 'Little Dead Cat' which is what he now is on the vet's computer.
Spin forward a year. Another evening. Another neighbour came with a lady who had run over the cat. As Colin picked up the cat, someone stopped to ask directions, leading to a screeching of tyres when she realises what he's gesticulating with. Colin says that dead cats lose all their character. He put the cat down, ready for burial.
The next evening,'blow me:'Little Deady' shows up again'.
Six months or so later. Another knock on the door. This time it was the GP, holding another dead, black cat, this time quite stiff. The same thing happened. Once again, Little Deady was 'raised from the dead' by supper time.
His last 'burial' was two years ago. Six lives left.
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