{"id":11560,"date":"2016-07-07T20:19:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T19:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11560"},"modified":"2016-07-07T20:23:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T19:23:58","slug":"getting-collared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11560","title":{"rendered":"Getting collared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have two rescue kitties.<\/p>\n<p>This is what happens when you let two immature adults loose in the RSPCA rescue centre, looking for a dog.<\/p>\n<p>They come home with two rescue kitties.<\/p>\n<p>Obv.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>We got them both collars.<\/p>\n<p>With bells on.<\/p>\n<p>To help protect the local wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>I used to have a cat, when I lived in Radstock, many moons ago, who was a prolific slayer of <del>vampires<\/del> wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>Suki (for that was her name) brought half a seagull in to the kitchen one day.<\/p>\n<p>She had to gnaw it in to two halves, because that was the only way it would fit through the cat flap.<\/p>\n<p>Another\u00a0day she also brought home a very large, very beautiful Koi carp.<\/p>\n<p>A neighbour valued it at between \u00a38,000 &#8211; \u00a310,000.<\/p>\n<p>When it was alive.<\/p>\n<p>Obv.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a big bunch of years and we come to the collared, belled rescue kitties.<\/p>\n<p>One of them is showing all the talents of having been a career assassin equal to Jason Bourne.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the bell.<\/p>\n<p>The other is content to eat the more humanely-prepared stuff.<\/p>\n<p>But the more pacifist of the two\u00a0lost her collar a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>I eventually found it, and reattached it.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks later she lost it again.<\/p>\n<p>We replaced it with a brand new one, with a bell.<\/p>\n<p>Today she lost it again.<\/p>\n<p>I have a theory.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s taking off her collars and selling them, to other cats in the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>So if you see a cat, wandering around the locality, with a bunch of collars around it&#8217;s neck, it&#8217;s the feline equivalent of Flash Harry.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s ours.<\/p>\n<p>Buy a collar, please.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m itching to know what she&#8217;s going to use the money for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have two rescue kitties. This is what happens when you let two immature adults loose in the RSPCA rescue centre, looking for a dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}