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Cats in your Garden
I often read or hear about people being annoyed by cats in their garden (using it as a toilet or destroying plants) I can understand this is really annoying, so for a change I thought I would share a nice story of the cats that come into our garden.
We have 2 cats of our own, a female 8 years old and a male 6 years old. Every day our garden is full of cats. A couple are obviously strays but most of them are well looked after and well fed. They use our garden as a meeting and greeting place. They rub noses with each other in passing and spend the time either sleeping under the bushes or just playing/lazing in the sun. There is a big ginger male cat that brings along a kitten (probably about 10 weeks old) they hunt and stalk among the bushes and often play fight. The kitten has now started visiting on its own and is really cute and loves being fussed over. Theres a couple of other big males that laze around on the bench or beside the door. Two other males are friends of our male cat and they go off together. There is a stray cat that has been coming since it was a tiny kitten (its now about 4) We regularly feed it and the other cats dont touch its food at all. I would love to bring it in and give it a home but it is sometimes really vicious and we are pretty wary of it.
Besides these regular visitors there are also occasional visitors who come to the garden too.
These cats all tolerate each other (only occasionally do they confront each other) They have never used the garden as a toilet and never destroyed the plants (although the little kitten has started chewing on the bushes and climbing the small trees we have)
It is lovely to look out of the window and see them and we dont mind them being there at all, in fact it is really nice that they see our garden as a safe place to 'hang out'
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.hi linda, its really lovely especially with the kitten coming round. Hopefully she will stop gnawing on the bushes (we have been shooing her away from them lol)
Its lovely that the cats go to your aunts garden too :) especially as she doesnt have cats herself, they must feel really welcome there :)
My mate reckons they come round for mating purposes though Ive never seen/heard evidence of that lol (both our cats were 'done' when they were little) I think I would be in shock if I woke up one morning to a garden full of babies lol
(She suffered a broken jaw, the family confirmed that the cats had never done any damage, they simply didn't like them.)
Good on you pixi......you've restored my faith in human kindness.
Spinchimp - you're coming back as a mouse in your next life!!
I agree with you though Peanut, the kid needed his jaw broken!!! Looks like another one that'll be coming back as a mouse in their next life!! xx