Our last cat mysteriously disappeared after a neighbour arrived at the door complaining that our cat was stalking his pigeons.
Their next door neighbour later told us that this same person had set a trap for their cat. It had gone missing for a couple of days. They heard it and after a "discussion" the cat was released.
Coincidence?
We have two houses backing onto our back fence. The first house has six cats. The other has four.
I wouldn't mind, but they "use" my garden.
One is a right nuisance. I chase it daily when I see it "a tweepin' up" on my beloved wild birds. I feed them in places where I can keep a watchful eye - one outside the office window and the other outside our dining area window. We love watching them and their antics. A visiting squirrel now comes daily and does gymnastics to nibble at the nuts in their bird feeders - jumping from branch to branch with breathtaking ease and bravado.
Our big black doggie used to keep the garden cat free. He died (chasing a cat!) so now its up to me. My wife looks at me sympathetically when I race out barking
(Hence the term- barking mad?)
Soon they caught on though. One cat walked casually past my office window and stopped at the bird feeding area. I opened the window and did my famous ferocious growl. It turned round, looked at me (in much the same way as my wife does) and raised a hind leg and sent a spray over one of my favourite plants.
The snow doesn't hinder them Eric - we have a few inches of the stuff and I seen my adversary today stalking my blackbird!
