Have you ever had to talk to one of your neighbors about a problem with their house, etc., only to have them not understand that there is a problem??
Our next door neighbor has a lot of cats. She claims that only 4 of them are hers. The other 5 or 6 have just adopted her home as theirs. Don't get me wrong - I love animals. What I don't love is her cats pooping in my flower bed and in my yard, and in the little bit of sand that collects at the bottom of our driveway, and in the gravel drive under the carport out back. I also don't love how when I drive into the garage my tires smell like cat poo, or instead of smelling flowers in the evening air, I smell cat poo, or the sounds my husband makes when he gets out of his sheriff car out back and steps in cat poo with his uniform boots...
Now, having a lot of cats is a problem, but really it's just part of it. Her house house is kind of a sanctuary for wildlife. She has holes under her eaves that squirrels and birds use to get inside her house and make nests. She purposely doesn't fix them because then these birds and squirrels won't have a home. As a result, part of her house has no electricity due to the squirrels chewing on the wires.
Here comes the really interesting part: she pours cat food all over her front porch to feed the cats. Some of the cats have dishes set in different places, but a large amount is just spread over the concrete porch. This has attracted the notice of a raccoon. We're not sure how long the raccoon has been in the neighborhood, but apparently long enough that the cats act like it's a long lost friend. In a recent conversation my husband had with our neighbor about the somewhat infrequency of her mowing habits, she told him an amusing anecdote. It seems that one day last week she went out to her vehicle to get the bag of cat food in it and found a raccoon with babies inside eating the said cat food. Hubby asks her if she knows where it's living and she says she thinks they are living in her attic. She doesn't see anything wrong with that. Nobody wants to kill it - we just want it out in the country where it should be. It's getting in trash (causing Hubby to make those unpleasant sounds) and making a mess, although you can't really tell at her house since her trash always looks like something's been in it.
It's hard to be mad at her because she is such a nice lady, and highly intelligent - I'm just not sure about how her common sense is functioning...
Our next door neighbor has a lot of cats. She claims that only 4 of them are hers. The other 5 or 6 have just adopted her home as theirs. Don't get me wrong - I love animals. What I don't love is her cats pooping in my flower bed and in my yard, and in the little bit of sand that collects at the bottom of our driveway, and in the gravel drive under the carport out back. I also don't love how when I drive into the garage my tires smell like cat poo, or instead of smelling flowers in the evening air, I smell cat poo, or the sounds my husband makes when he gets out of his sheriff car out back and steps in cat poo with his uniform boots...
Now, having a lot of cats is a problem, but really it's just part of it. Her house house is kind of a sanctuary for wildlife. She has holes under her eaves that squirrels and birds use to get inside her house and make nests. She purposely doesn't fix them because then these birds and squirrels won't have a home. As a result, part of her house has no electricity due to the squirrels chewing on the wires.
Here comes the really interesting part: she pours cat food all over her front porch to feed the cats. Some of the cats have dishes set in different places, but a large amount is just spread over the concrete porch. This has attracted the notice of a raccoon. We're not sure how long the raccoon has been in the neighborhood, but apparently long enough that the cats act like it's a long lost friend. In a recent conversation my husband had with our neighbor about the somewhat infrequency of her mowing habits, she told him an amusing anecdote. It seems that one day last week she went out to her vehicle to get the bag of cat food in it and found a raccoon with babies inside eating the said cat food. Hubby asks her if she knows where it's living and she says she thinks they are living in her attic. She doesn't see anything wrong with that. Nobody wants to kill it - we just want it out in the country where it should be. It's getting in trash (causing Hubby to make those unpleasant sounds) and making a mess, although you can't really tell at her house since her trash always looks like something's been in it.
It's hard to be mad at her because she is such a nice lady, and highly intelligent - I'm just not sure about how her common sense is functioning...
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