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| T.T. to the left & Kitten on the right. |
T.T. and Kitten never seem to
leave the comfort of the back doorstep anymore, although I can’t blame them
when delicious food scraps are brought to them every morning from breakfast and
dinner. I have no problem with this whatsoever (except maybe the minor
annoyance when T.T. tries to bite my toes every time I go out).
One unforeseen issue with them
living there is that one of my cats, the ginger tabby Oliver, has been getting extremely frustrated! As a male cat,
and even though he's neutered, he still wants to protect his territory.
He stands there at the window and watches them with unblinking, glaring
eyes – sort of unnerving even for me the way he has such a hatred for them.
The fact he can’t attack them is
causing a mess of problems. The main one is that due to misplaced
aggression (he can’t attack those cats so he is taking his anger and
territorial frustration out on others) because now he's attacking my sister and
chasing the other cat, Tucker, all the time around the house. I'm hoping
when winter strikes the feral cats will move somewhere warmer in the forest and
Oliver can have some peace of mind and my sister won’t have to watch her back
for a prowling ginger cat who wants to rip her face off (okay, he's not that aggressive, but still fairly scary).
Well, I guess it’s a waiting game now...
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