working from home

Lord and Lady have their keepers working from home most of the time.

Both cats and keepers know working in different projects in different and unrelated topics, with study sites across three continents is too extreme.

Even 4 WDs get stuck in the sand sometimes…

But Lady Delamere is always around ready to rescue her keepers. She has 19 months digging experience (in her litter box but it counts, especially since she thinks that many things related to international development are bullshit anyway, so her litter box is the most appropriate place to keep them).

She found a red back spider yesterday. We had a great sport making the spider a targeted beneficiary of a dose of insecticide. The impacts on flying insect biodiversity are going to be assessed but the outcomes of the intervention are clearly positive since members of the household are changing their behaviour and able to walk into the patio again. The cat as facilitator of the process got a reward of special food and the donor is happy to justify the expenditure of one $8.80 insecticide spray for the eradication of a single spider rather than promoting the use of more sustainable but risky options such a folded newspaper to achieve the desired killing objective…