spade cat (was Re: "like" and "as if")

[Laurence Horn]

>  >"Spade" is the spelling I see most frequently on those "Free Cat" notices
>>on the vet's bulletin board.
>>
>>JL
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>I've frequently heard "spaded" cat or dog, esp. up here in northern NY.
>Probably appears on notices, too, but I haven't been reading them.
>AM
>
Well, at least that provides a participle (although I guess some
radical mishearing must be involved).  I find "recently spade cat"
very odd, although it does preserve the phonology, given the
difficulty of taking "spade" to be a participle.

L