Baba Yaga on patrol

This is Baba Yaga.

She is responsible for rodent control around here.

And she is very good at it - which is why you wont read posts such as this on this site. 

Every three hours or so day and night, rain or shine Baba Yaga patrols her territory. Makes sure everything is in order.

And woe betide any invader - particularly those of the rodent or feathered varieties.

Only once have I seen her flummoxed.

One evening great cat curses were heard coming from outside the kitchen door.

She had caught a hedgehog at her food bowl. The hedgehog had, as hedgehogs do coiled itself into a prickly ball and all Baba Yaga could do was issue forth a stream of base cat profanities.

But Baba Yaga's night time patrols maybe under threat - a call has gone out from the Waikato SPCA for a night time curfew to be imposed upon cats along with micro chipping. An authoritarian (non)solution to the problem of stray cats breeding. 

And if such a silly thing is adopted in the Waikato you can be sure the idea will spread. Just like the microchipping of dogs nonsense. Just how requireing the microchipping of an old woman's pekenese stops an unregistered  rotweiler biting a child I have never understood. 

But back to cats, as anybody acquainted with them will know keeping them inside when they don't want to be kept inside is nigh on impossible. 

They are creatures with minds of their own, fiercely independent and with steel willed self determination.

You can count on it that they will not subserviently bow down to any city council bylaw - no matter how draconian the penalty.