Straight from my mama, who said this is what they used to do on the farm. You take a boot--you know what it is a boot? You are taking the cat, the male cat it is, and you are putting the front of the cat into the boot. Then snip, snip. Now the cat of course ist sehr verklempt. That is why you have the boot. Now, no more little cats and the big cats, they don't fight so much either.

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken