{"id":1601,"date":"2024-05-20T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2024-05-20T06:39:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T06:39:00","slug":"wee-beasties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=1601","title":{"rendered":"Wee Beasties\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This month  is increasingly becoming known as \u201cNo Mow May.\u201d No Mow May is an environmentally driven movement to recognise that certain insects and plant species benefit from delayed human  activity in their gardens during this time of year. Cats absolutely love the longer grass to play in if you have a lawn; but unfortunately there are also some not so friendly insects that benefit from it too. There have already been blogs on cost effective flea treatment, but ticks are another potential issue that may cause issue. Cats Protection have made this easy to follow illustration if you encounter the problem. Tick removers are readily available either online or at your local vets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/67EE6CFF-FC47-489A-A967-6EA75BCAAD5B.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/67EE6CFF-FC47-489A-A967-6EA75BCAAD5B-1024x750.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/67EE6CFF-FC47-489A-A967-6EA75BCAAD5B-1024x750.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/67EE6CFF-FC47-489A-A967-6EA75BCAAD5B-300x220.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/67EE6CFF-FC47-489A-A967-6EA75BCAAD5B-768x562.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/67EE6CFF-FC47-489A-A967-6EA75BCAAD5B.jpeg 1392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image Source:  Cats Protection via Google Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month is increasingly becoming known as \u201cNo Mow May.\u201d No Mow May is an environmentally driven movement to recognise that certain insects and plant species benefit from delayed human activity in their gardens during this time of year. Cats&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}