Cat commotion

There has just been a tremendous commotion on the roof! In the good old days before the 'problem' baboons were 'eliminated', it would have been the local troop taking a shortcut over the house, but they haven't been around in months. Then there was caterwauling, and then silence. My kitty, Felix, is always up on the roof (double-storey) catching pigeons, but I couldn't imagine a pigeon inflicting damage on the cat and thought it might be the sparrowhawk trying to catch something far too big.

I called the cat and went down to the back alley but she didn't appear and there was no sign that she might have fallen to her doom. I kept calling and eventually she peeped over the edge of the roof but wasn't ready to come down. As I looked up into the trees that line the side of the property, I spied a white cat high in the branches. The neighbour's cat, trespassing in Felix's hunting ground! Having established that it was just a little healthy competition, I went back inside and the interloper must have made its way down the tree and back home, because shortly afterwards Felix arrived in the kitchen, her tail like a bottlebrush and very pleased with herself!

 White cat in tree - middle left.











Below is Felix's route to the roof - runs up the pole then swings round to the left and pulls herself onto the bamboo!

Butter wouldn't melt in the mouth after seeing off the competition!