I know I will go to hell for this
Mar. 18th, 2006 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billeyler(apologies in advance to cat fanciers).
I'm going to get a pellet gun. Or a sling shot.
Before I lost count while surveying around the house, the garage and the lower terrace, I found 30+ spots one of the stray neighborhood cats had sprayed on the house, doorsills, posts, block walls, fences.
Marking "their" territory.
Same drippy, honey-colored pattern. Everywhere. 6 inches above ground level. Down to ground level.
I never see them. They lie in wait in some obscure area, apparently because I have an active bird-feeder. They roam at night. And spray. Everywhere.
Between the months of dog feces next door and the cat spray, it's enough to make you wretch.
Then again, having a pellet gun or a sling shot wouldn't make the slightest difference, because I never see them.
But they ARE there.
Remembering back, this WASN'T a problem when I had three mild-mannered schnauzers who went absolutely, frothing-at-the-mouth, ballistic at the slightest sign of a cat in the area.
Maybe the spraying is their vengance for my having schnauzers here for 11 years.
I'm going to get a pellet gun. Or a sling shot.
Before I lost count while surveying around the house, the garage and the lower terrace, I found 30+ spots one of the stray neighborhood cats had sprayed on the house, doorsills, posts, block walls, fences.
Marking "their" territory.
Same drippy, honey-colored pattern. Everywhere. 6 inches above ground level. Down to ground level.
I never see them. They lie in wait in some obscure area, apparently because I have an active bird-feeder. They roam at night. And spray. Everywhere.
Between the months of dog feces next door and the cat spray, it's enough to make you wretch.
Then again, having a pellet gun or a sling shot wouldn't make the slightest difference, because I never see them.
But they ARE there.
Remembering back, this WASN'T a problem when I had three mild-mannered schnauzers who went absolutely, frothing-at-the-mouth, ballistic at the slightest sign of a cat in the area.
Maybe the spraying is their vengance for my having schnauzers here for 11 years.
