I have never been very fond of cats. I especially don’t like cats in my yard. For the past 20 minutes, I have been researching cat traps. You see, my neighbor doesn’t keep track of his cat. It jumps the fence and tears up my garden. This makes me very upset.
When I awoke this morning, I realized the cat had destroyed 25% of my corn. Enough is enough, I thought. With some careful work this evening, I may have saved some of it, but only time will tell.
Needless to say, when the cat hopped the fence tonight and ducked into the rows of corn again, I grabbed an 8 foot 2-by-2 that I was measuring (pole beans need something to climb) and gave the cat a surprise of my own.
In other news, we decided to do some more thinning to the turnips, beets, and carrots.
I can’t really tell what about the cat it is that’s killing the corn. Is it ‘cat scat?’
Also, I want to hear more about the surprise you gave the cat!
The cat pulled each stalk of corn down to the ground in a different direction as it went down that row. I did what I could to get it standing again, but I’ll be very surprised if I wind up getting any ears from that row.