This is going to be a grumpy post with a twist so be warned.
As some of you may know I have been rather sleep deprived lately because of the early morning visitations of a feral cat. This monster is either very smart or started out as a pampered pet somewhere because it knows how to use a pet door – my pet door. It comes in to eat the food I leave for my own pampered pets. If any of them get in the way they get beaten up and the resultant yowling wakes the dog and before you know it I’m leaping out of bed brandishing a slipper.
So… in the quest for a good night’s sleep I’ve put some strategies in place, one of which was to barricade the laundry door so my tiny, chihuahua cross dog, hereinafter called Mogi, could roam the house without being able to go outside. There is a reason for this. Mogi thinks she’s a real dog but she’s so short-sighted that at night she barks at empty flower pots. Neighbours do not generally like to be woken at 2 am by high pitched yapping so I have to lock Mogi in my office. This stops her from waking the neighbours but the downside is that she can’t get out to protect my cats from The Feral. Barricading her access to the laundry means she can give The Feral a fright without getting me sued for noise pollution.
The Feral didn’t visit last night. My cats did not yowl and their food remained untouched. I, however was still woken just before 6 am by Mogi barking at the Robomop I’d left in the middle of the lounge room floor.
This is Mogi.
Meeks is not happy with Mogi.
This is robomop. Small, black, made of plastic, of course robomop must be a Feral Flowerpot!
Meeks loves her new feral flowerpot but Meeks does not love her Mogi just at the moment. In fact Meeks would like to strangle her Mogi but, being a mature adult, Meeks does the next best thing – she goes looking for a pick-me-up on the net.
Meeks finds Nyparrot and Nyparrot’s blog introduces her to the amazing, comedy duo in the video clip below! Meeks is happy once more. Thanks Nyparrot, I owe you one!
July 22nd, 2012 at 8:01 pm
[…] my friend Meeka had a rude encounter an unwanted nocturnal guest recently — with hilarious results— and it left her singing Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will […]
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July 23rd, 2012 at 12:18 am
lmao – that sounds so much funnier the way you say it!
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July 22nd, 2012 at 1:18 pm
I am so glad to hear that you’ve finally gotten a little bit more sleep. We have feral everything around here, but not once have we had repeated night-time visitors in the house! What an adventure!
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July 22nd, 2012 at 3:38 pm
Adventure? Um…that’s one way of describing it :p
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July 19th, 2012 at 5:12 am
Mogi is super cute…adorably cute… 🙂
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July 19th, 2012 at 8:50 am
lol – she has her moments. 😀
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July 18th, 2012 at 6:06 pm
thanks. I had a good laugh. Loved the blog and the video clip
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July 19th, 2012 at 12:25 am
Thank you! I’ve had a nice nap since then so I’m glad my sleep-writing wasn’t too bad. 😀
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July 18th, 2012 at 11:33 am
A friend who lives in Rhode Island — not exactly the sticks, but definitely not New York City — had a similar problem. His pet door was admitting every stray or local cat, plus an assortment of raccoons, rabbits and other wild life.
He wound up getting a special pet door that only opens for his cat because she has an electronic chip that opens the door. She likes running in when other creatures are in pursuit, because the door shuts before they get inside.
Because New England winters can be very rough, he’s set it up so the strange cats can visit his enclosed porch, but only his beloved kitty gets all the way inside.
This may not be the right solution for your team of cats and pups. It kind of freaked me out when he posted about it on Facebook. That is until his neighbors chimed in about the brilliance of the solution. They were finding all sorts of uninvited wild life in their homes.
In the meantime… YOU WILL SURVIVE!
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July 18th, 2012 at 11:56 am
Oh my god, I am going to have to google that collar! Thank you for such a brilliant idea!
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July 18th, 2012 at 11:22 am
Ha ha, thank you for spreading the word!:-)
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July 18th, 2012 at 11:53 am
lol – I’m a treasure hunter from way back!
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July 18th, 2012 at 11:58 am
Pleasure to be discovered by professional!:)
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July 18th, 2012 at 10:56 am
You are annoyed with Mogi now, but one morning you may well wake up to find a rogue robomop looking a little fatter with a fluffy tail sticking out of the intake…. Mogi was right all along and all you did was shout…shame shame shame 😉
Have you thought about putting a cat trap just inside the door to catch the feral? I am sure the small furry scurriers who lived in your garden first would thank you if it went to live somewhere else.
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July 18th, 2012 at 12:28 pm
I’d consider a cat trap but I fear the only cat I’d trap would be one of my own 😦
I’ve just been looking at electronic cat doors but the cost is rather high plus I had to get the current one specially fitted into a security door so I’m a bit stuck. Maybe I should just get ear-muffs or move to a motel for a night to catch up.
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July 18th, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Lock all the pets in a safe room and borrow a neighbours big dog for a sleepover. The feral cat may not stop running until it is too far away to get back! 😉
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July 19th, 2012 at 12:24 am
There used to be a lovely labX called Obie down the back but he moved with his owner and now I don’t know any big dogs. I can hear them at night sometimes but I’m not game to try and dognap one.
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July 19th, 2012 at 12:28 am
No, that could cause more problems than it solves 🙂
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July 19th, 2012 at 8:47 am
Yeah. Why does there always have to be a downside to everything?
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July 18th, 2012 at 8:32 am
Mogi is very cute though!
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July 18th, 2012 at 8:34 am
lol – yeah she is. We’re friends again now. 😀
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July 18th, 2012 at 8:22 am
Can’t you get Mogi some glasses?
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July 18th, 2012 at 8:33 am
lmao – I wish! She’d look rather cute with spectacles. 😀
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