Everyone seems to go on nowadays about the current degeneration of this generation…. ASBOs everywhere… we all know that it’s the previous generations fault, and because the problem is actually due to a lack of discipline and direction from the parents, then that means that the problem started many generations ago and all those Old cronies stood gaggling about the “Youth of today” wearing their hoodies and standing about on street corners… can rinse their hair safe in the knowledge that it is all their fault.
Anyway, more importantly than all this is the fact that I think the problem has manifested itself in cats.
We have a number of cats around our house, and when we moved in 4 years ago we inherited a cat with the house. I know that sounds odd, but the cat had been bought when the owners moved in to a brand new house 18 years prior and they were now moving to Australia and coudn’t take the cat with them. So it seemed such a shame to us that the poor thing would get put down after such a good innings, that we decided to keep the cat. It lived another year before croaking it with age related internal problems. To be honest, the only thing the cat was good for was keeping the garden free of other cats. I guess their is some irony in there somewhere!
Now, to tie all this information together; when I was a lad cats used to shit in the soil and cover it over. Cats were considered a clean pet unlike a dog that will drop its load anywhere. But it seems that the hoody wearing feline of today is quite content to shit wherever it feels like and leave it for someone else to clean up. Sound familiar? Yes yes I know it’s only cat poo, but its actually a problem when you have little kids and worse still for babies and pregnant women. Cat poo is a carrier of Toxoplasmosis. Not to mention the more important issue of your kids trailing cat shit around the house!!!!!
So is this a problem that has managed to jump species or are we looking at a more serious evolutionary problem? How long before we are giving ASBOS to cats?
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ASBO, hoodies, cats, Australia, irony, dog, feline, Toxoplasmosis
Earth calling Chris! Come down from up there, Spaceman Spliff!
BTW, love the new look blog. What are you using to get the combination of gfx, links, etc? Is that all part of WordPress?
The graphics are just normal graphics implemented in WP. The Wiki and Technocratic links are a WP mod I wrote/modified. Just place a tag around a word to get the link and build the list at the bottom.
Damned cats, we’ve the same problem. There are several solutions, none of which are practical or totally foolproof, but currently I’m trying the “thow a bucket of water over the cat whenever you see it”. I’m hopeful no cat owners see me do this or the RSPCA may be after me! I’ve two young children and don’t want them to get blinded by this stuff and don’t think it fair to not let them play in the garden in summer.
As for the degeneration in social values, I’m afraid this will continue and I think it’s down to the fact that basically the lower the IQ, the more children you will produce. I can’t back this up with scientific data however, but there you go.
I could go into various solutions but don’t want to rant any further right now.