Well here we are again. Autumn, or is it Winter has got a firm grip. The temperature here inside is a balmy 15degC while the BBC Weather site is suggesting a max of 12degC today. Still at least its dry.
Since we now have new neighbours we have also a second cat “tag-team” patrolling our garden. I have previously mentioned the predatory pair of black moggies which are systematically reducing the squirrel and bird populations. Well it seems our new neighbours have two black & white cats. They have taken to snoozing in both our front and back gardens. So there seems to have been a bit of a coup or at least a territorial take over since the black team always used to sleep on or under our Adirondack seat but in recent times I have only seen the newbies there. Similarly, the black team used to sleep on our front door step during the afternoons. Now the near presence of the newbies snoozing by the fence seems to have frightened off the black team.
Now an interesting twist to this new state of affairs is the occasional presence of an enormous grey striped cat. As far as I can determine it looks like it may be a Maine Coon Cat or a derivative, whatever, this thing is HUGE !!!
So the status quo, from the cats perspective, has been tilted well out of balance. The result remains to be seen. Perhaps the re-jigging of territorial rights might distract these feline foes and that could be good news for the birds and squirrels.
WrAnTz 