I don't really care either if they wouldn't be a threat to my dog, tear open the garbage, poop on my car - yes, the hood, yowl at the window, leave a dead field rat in the garden and make my backyard their own. We currently have no loose cats in the neighborhood that I know of but over the past years, they have been a problem. Our neighborhood is a suburban one and I have never even seen a rat in real life until I saw the partially eaten one in my own garden! Yuck! I know a cat dragged it there as we've never had possums, raccoons, etc., here. I cannot tell you what I went through getting up the nerve to(2.5 mg. Valium) and trying to dispose of that item. I lost a good pair of rubber gloves, a grabber stick and a robe to that disposal job as they all had to go in the garbage bag after that - and it still took me days to stop shuddering and feel clean again no matter how many showers I took. But mainly, cats are a potential threat to my Tibbe. I guess I could learn to put up with the rest of their antics from time to time but it is those that try to or jump in my backyard that worry me. |