Austin’s next-door neighbour had twenty-four cats. No kidding. They swarmed all over the place, including on Austin’s property. Austin detested them. He didn’t mind a cat now and again, but twenty-four of them were a horror.
Besides being everywhere, they seemed to favour Austin’s lettuce patch in the garden to do a certain business. There was only one thing for it: he planted lilies all around his garden. They’re poisonous to cats. Problem solved.
Austin’s next-door neighbour had one cat. At least for a while.
Weave a Web 
Austin is efficient. Now Austin has mice problems.
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No need to get catty.
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I’m trying to keep a good cat-itude.
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Good fur you.
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Paw-don me
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I see you’re making a fee-line for the puns.
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You’ve got to be kitten me.
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It’s the litter things in life that count.
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Just live long and pawsper
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Well, while I don’t necessarily agree with Austin’s methods, effective though they were, I do despise people who let their pets run all over the neighborhood.
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Okay, I can agree with you.
I don’t mind it when Bruce bumps off humans, but doing away with cats and dogs is just not acceptable.
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I agree but it happens.
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Nice header photo, BA.
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I pinched both the cat and the lily.
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Did the cat bite you when you pinched it?
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Meowed.
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😄
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A bit harsh. Sounds a bit like Prue Leith (if you haven’t heard what she has written Google it!).
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I had to google Dame Prudence Margaret Leith! The drowning of kittens in a weighted bag in the river was not an uncommon practice before regular cat operations came into being – horrible but true. At least it was the case when I was young.
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True but I’m surprised that, given her profile, she admitted to it publicly.
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Austin is either very clever or a nasty piece of work!
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I prefer nasty!
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Very cruel – they probably kept away the mice and rodents that would eat his lettuce!
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My mice won’t touch broccoli and I don’t blame them.
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It’s sad what happened to Austin. I wonder if they’ll ever find who killed him.
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There’s a good number who’d like to get their claws stuck into him.
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He certainly was ripped to shreds.
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