On April 21st 2006 I wrote: “Kids nagging for a pet animal are told they have to take care of the little critter themselves and that usually works for the first few weeks. At the same time, a lot of cat owners apparently already lost interest after reading the what-food-to-buy section in their operations manual. Why bother with litterboxes that have to be cleaned up … let the cat figure out where to crap. Having a better sense for decency (and knowing who feeds them), the cats don’t crap in their own garden but dig a hole in some other place … one of the corners of their territory and someone else’s garden. Cats are for comics and on National Geographic! New objective: defend garden and take offensive action against owners looking for missing cats.”

Since that post, I have managed to restrained myself from shooting cats and from taking a crap in someone’s garden. Instead, I have tried pepper, used coffee grinds and other eco-friendly plant extract chemicals. However, for some reason the cats in my neighborhood like their food spicy, are addicted to caffeine and have lost all sense of smell. Non of the so-called household solutions appeared to work here. Eventually I bought a battery-powered ultrasonic cat repelling device and this actually works like a charm. The cats even remind me when the battery needs to be replaced. Electronics to the rescue! Let me know if you have ideas on how to boost its power to include the other side of the house.

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