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Putting cats in the bag. Out on the northern …

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Putting cats in the bag.

Out on the northern prairie farm land that my dad lived on, my grandmother was good enough to volunteer my dad, then just a young kid, to help out any neighbor who was burdened with a new litter of kittens, by drowning the litter. The idea was that too many cats reduced the population of game birds that lived in the fields. Folks hunted game birds to put food on the table. The method of drowning was to stuff the poor doomed kittens into a gunny sack weighted with rocks and heave the sack into the river. After a few of these jobs, my dad wised up and told my gramma, after she told him to go to a neighbor’s house to drown yet another litter, he told her that the neighbors can drown their own kittens.

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I vote for #4. Once you let the cat out of the bag, you can’t ever hope of putting the cat into the bag again. Thus, if you tell a secret, you can’t untell it. My gramma used to volunteer my pop, when he was a kid, to
take the neighbor’s kitten’s down to the river in a guinea sack weighted down with rocks and drown ‘em. After a while he wised up and refused
to do it. “Let ‘em drown their own cats.”

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ah…ah…ah-CHOO – HOO
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