This is all well and good but but my grandad Dorsey Dixon is recorded as explaining this version of that song stemming from a party where a guy named John had gotten drunk and my grandad walked up and said hey John somebody has called the law and John said I don't care about the law. Later grandad stepped up and said John the law is here my grand dad said you have never seen a man sober up so fast in all of your life and that is what inspired him to write the song .intoxicated rat. The rat was a man. The cat was the law.