{"id":4451,"date":"2010-06-08T15:50:46","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T20:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2010-06-08T16:26:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T21:26:56","slug":"a-cats-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=4451","title":{"rendered":"A cat’s obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tiger's successor Skeezix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The mercury was close to 100 degrees, when I traveled to muggy South Central Texas one summer to photograph race yearlings for a prominent farm whose manager greeted me at the door with a warning.<\/p>\n

“We had to do something about the rats in the rafters,” he said, as he opened the office door and I realized immediately that the rats were still in the rafters, only now they were dead and decomposing.<\/p>\n

I could sympathize with the problem of rats in the rafters. At one time I could look up and see hairless tails hanging down over our barn isle. But that was before Tiger, the big male house cat that I adopted from the Humane Society, came to live at our barn.<\/p>\n

The first night that Tiger spent in his new domain, he left me a gift of 13 dead rats, lined up neatly in front of the feed room. The next morning I found an even dozen. And so it went for several weeks, until the body count began to dwindle and there were no more rats’ tails in the rafters.<\/p>\n

At the same time, it became harder to find Tiger, who had always come when I called him. Sometimes I wouldn’t see him for several days and his food would go untouched.<\/p>\n

Then our neighbor mentioned the great cat that had taken up residence in his barn. It turned out that Tiger was somewhat of a “day hand.” He would stay with one outfit until his job was done, then move to another for the next roundup.<\/p>\n

Now comes news in today’s Wall Street Journal that there is something just as appealing to cats as rodents – Calvin Kleins’s Obsession cologne for men. Its a staple for zoos that use it to keep their big cats content and it is also used as a lure for research in the wild. Click here <\/a>to read the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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