`` oh , yeah , i went out in the backyard this morning , since the weather is good , and i was like kicking around this pine-cone , and when it landed on something in the bushes around the wall '' - my backyard , like poppy 's , was enclosed by a solid wood privacy fence , though mine was definitely shorter - `` i went to see why it sounded so funny , and your big old cat was lying there on the ground , and she was all wet and everything , and she 's dead . ''