6 hours ago
Afternoon from another warm day in the Bay - we need rain
I think I may have told my cat door story before - in Oz we had the cat door leading out into our cats covered yard area - a bloody opossum used to come every night and sit on top of his cage spitting and hissing - my Manx cat would fly off the bed waking the old boy then the cat door would go bang bang annoying the hell out of us - this would continue on for hours in and out bang bang! One night the old boy got so angry he shot out the back door picked up a spade he had been using in the garden and wildly swung at the possum and nearly had a heart attack as he connected and killed it - they are protected over there $500 fine for killing them - actually thinking back his look of disbelief was hilarious - the neighbours over the fence had a huge garden and were away for 6 weeks so the buggar threw the corpse into the next door rose bushes - I think Bob my Manx was disappointed it was his nightly excitement
Another time I saw him coming along the tunnel leading to the cat door intending to bring a baby rat inside to share with me - I quickly went to lock the cat flap but one rats foot got trapped in the door - it was gross seeing this pink foot waving around so had to unlock the door and let him in !
The kids bought him for me one birthday- my elder son saw him at a pet shop on a Saturday morning he was the runt of the litter and the only one unsold so they went halves .He crossed the Tasman with us and lived until he was 18
I think I may have told my cat door story before - in Oz we had the cat door leading out into our cats covered yard area - a bloody opossum used to come every night and sit on top of his cage spitting and hissing - my Manx cat would fly off the bed waking the old boy then the cat door would go bang bang annoying the hell out of us - this would continue on for hours in and out bang bang! One night the old boy got so angry he shot out the back door picked up a spade he had been using in the garden and wildly swung at the possum and nearly had a heart attack as he connected and killed it - they are protected over there $500 fine for killing them - actually thinking back his look of disbelief was hilarious - the neighbours over the fence had a huge garden and were away for 6 weeks so the buggar threw the corpse into the next door rose bushes - I think Bob my Manx was disappointed it was his nightly excitement
Another time I saw him coming along the tunnel leading to the cat door intending to bring a baby rat inside to share with me - I quickly went to lock the cat flap but one rats foot got trapped in the door - it was gross seeing this pink foot waving around so had to unlock the door and let him in !
The kids bought him for me one birthday- my elder son saw him at a pet shop on a Saturday morning he was the runt of the litter and the only one unsold so they went halves .He crossed the Tasman with us and lived until he was 18