{"id":2886,"date":"2015-01-12T21:11:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T03:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2015-01-12T21:11:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T03:11:44","slug":"when-all-else-fails-get-a-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/?p=2886","title":{"rendered":"When All Else Fails &#8212; Get A Cat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cat2_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2890\" src=\"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cat2_lg-276x300.jpg\" alt=\"cat2_lg\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cat2_lg-276x300.jpg 276w, http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cat2_lg-943x1024.jpg 943w, http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cat2_lg.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/a>We tried traps. We tried bait. Yet, the rodent problem in the basement of the old farm house has continued. \u00a0 The current issue seems to be Pocket gophers.\u00a0 It, or they, spring the mouse traps and the rap traps.\u00a0 They make noise in the basement and leave big poops in corners. When all else failed, we got a cat. He is a huge long haired Tom Cat. His current domain is the basement, where he is careful to use his litter box. Cat has been here for three days and I have not seen or heard signs of the rodent population.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cat1_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2889\" style=\"clear: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cat1_lg-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"cat1_lg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cat1_lg-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cat1_lg.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Time will tell if he is the solution.\u00a0 So far, so good. He likes to sit on my lap and prrrrrr so we will be friends. Pilgrim, the poodle, has not met the cat. However, he does know that I smell like there has been a cat on my lap. I named the cat &#8220;Genghis&#8221;. It seems to be an appropriate name for a regal killer cat.\u00a0 To be continued&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We tried traps. We tried bait. Yet, the rodent problem in the basement of the old farm house has continued. \u00a0 The current issue seems to be Pocket gophers.\u00a0 It, or they, spring the mouse traps and the rap traps.\u00a0 They make noise in the basement and leave big poops in corners. When all else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2893,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milkandhoneyfarm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}