I notice that Minibushire popped into the ‘Sarfend’ forum to advise that a topic there is also being discussed here, so I thought it only fair to post the link.
http://www.sarfend.co.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1148642301

NB: Benfleet is further ‘up’ the road from Westcliff, or Vestecliff, as we knew it when I was a lad in 50s Southend.

I thought this thread was about Linda Lovelace, but she isn’t 95, she’ll be 50 next month.

joglo
i think you must have very well trained cats their natural instinct is to bury it but sometimes they can be a bit stupid and dont get it right. I do think your theory on the fox is right on the money, also the hedgehog theory but at this time of year they(hedgehogs) should all be hibernating.

It’s almost, although not always, impossible to train cats, they usually do what they want to.

The fox part isn’t a theory, it was reliably witnessed.

It’s true that cats don’t always get it right, but it’s rare.

WP840 should consider himself extremely unlucky if this is true.
In my whole life I’ve never seen a cat poo and leave it on any surface, ever.
Apart from a short time living in a flat, I’ve had cats since the 1940s and still have one. At one point, I had 5 at the same time.
Over the years, I’ve seen many of them crapping and never ever saw one that didn’t dig a hole, crap in it and carefully cover it up, sniffing to make sure there’s no evidence.

This topic has been raised on other forums and the usual answer is that it isn’t a cat that’s doing it.
They don’t crap on lawns, probably because the idea of running through it some time later doesn’t appeal to them.
Their natural instinct is to not leave traces of their faeces, probably due to them not wanting to be traced by predators.

A fox was eventually found to be the guilty party in one instance of lawn fouling and apparently hedgehogs have similar habits.

WP840, I challenge you to post a photo of this cat in the act, I would be most grateful for the education.
As the cat does it regularly, this shouldn’t present a problem.

Mr Evaristti said: “Gene Hathorn’s story is a powerful one but it is not his story that is as important for me as the system that exists in a society such as America’s in such a vulgar and primitive way, the system, of killing people like this.

So the calculated, cold blooded murder of three people for gain isn’t vulgar and primitive?

In October 1984, Gene Wilford Hathorn Jr., then 24, resolved to kill his father, stepmother, and half-brother. He was motivated both by animosity and the prospect of an inheritance of around $150,000. He planned to go to the trailer home where his family lived, shoot them, take some valuable items, and plant hairs and cigarette butts from other people, in the hopes of making the crime look like a burglary perpetrated by blacks. He sought the assistance of a few different people, and found an interested party in James Beathard, then 27. Hathorn and Beathard were friends and former co-workers.

http://www.txexecutions.org/reports/197.asp

Not even bizarre.

It’s like going to bed with football boots on, but highly recommended when playing away games!:diablo:

There’s always a half chance that Jozef wants to know how much his warbird has gained in value over the last few years?