{"id":997,"date":"2015-12-21T23:47:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T10:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=997"},"modified":"2015-12-22T10:46:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T21:46:58","slug":"cat-and-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/cat-and-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat and Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not to be outdone by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/patience-rewarded\/\" target=\"_blank\">old dog<\/a> in the vermin reduction stakes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/cats-and-dogs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kitty-Pop<\/a>\u00a0has been running a\u00a0parallel\u00a0operation from her base amongst\u00a0the tack shed hay-bales.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday she was spotted on the driveway with her mark. If you&#8217;re sensitive to the sight of kitty\u00a0kill I suggest you squint your eyes up a bit and you probably won&#8217;t even notice The Body. For the less tenderhearted\u00a0amongst you, consider this a\u00a0rodent\u00a0version of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spot_the_ball\" target=\"_blank\">Spot the Ball<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_998\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/untitled-2015-12-19-105.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-998\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-998\" class=\"size-large wp-image-998\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/untitled-2015-12-19-105-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"caught\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/untitled-2015-12-19-105.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/untitled-2015-12-19-105-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/untitled-2015-12-19-105-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spot the\u00a0Vermin<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m impressed she caught it. Some of the ponies&#8217;\u00a0mineral\u00a0supplement had been left out on the bench, and given the state of the bag\u00a0this morning I would say that was\u00a0one supercharged\u00a0mouse. Fortunately Kitty-Pop managed to squeeze in\u00a0a bit of a kip\u00a0later in the day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_311\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/untitled-2015-08-09-98.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-311\" class=\"size-large wp-image-311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/untitled-2015-08-09-98-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Kitty-Pop mimes the actions to Sheldon's song\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/untitled-2015-08-09-98.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/untitled-2015-08-09-98-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kitty-Pop mimes the actions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5G2qu-nTx-4\" target=\"_blank\">Sheldon&#8217;s song<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Or did she? Don&#8217;t be fooled by the\u00a0appearance of total relaxation. I&#8217;m pretty sure she&#8217;s just practicing her <a href=\"http:\/\/breathmastery.com\/what-is-tactical-breathing\/\" target=\"_blank\">tactical breathing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to be outdone by the old dog in the vermin reduction stakes\u00a0Kitty-Pop\u00a0has been running a\u00a0parallel\u00a0operation from her base amongst\u00a0the tack shed hay-bales. Yesterday she was spotted on the driveway with her mark. If you&#8217;re sensitive to the sight of&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/cat-and-mouse\/\" class=\"more-link\">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":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kitty-pop","category-rats","category-vermin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}