Cats tend to be cleaner than most pets, grooming and bathing themselves on purpose - unlike a dog, for instance, whose idea of a bath is getting caught in a drenching rain. Cats don t bark at all hours of the night, bay at the moon or chase cars. Cats can keep a rat population under control. That s a good thing, as Martha Stuart would say. The problem I have with cats is simple.
Cats are occasionally too smart for their own good.
Normally clean animals, these felines will leave tracks over my car that resemble a scene from the last watering hole in the Sahara. Since any one of these ten thousand cats also knows that it can, at any time, chew an ear off of my daughter s cat Puss, they lay in wait for Puss s food and fight him for it one at a time. These fights result in sounds that could only be described as a five-alarm fire at Donut World. When our Veterinarian bought his second Rolls Royce, it was time to do something about this cat problem. Short of trapping and shipping each stray cat to the Thai Binh province, I had to come up with a plan to keep these strays out of my yard.