Almost forgot about this
Apr. 2nd, 2012 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
monkey5sYesterday Miss Chloe defended her patio from an intruder! I heard a kitty yowl, got up from the table and went to the door, where there was a Tuxedo Cat Face-Off going on.
The intruding tuxedo cat was visibly larger than Chloe, and had shorter hair, but she was giving him attitude and making it clear in no uncertain terms that he was NOT welcome on HER turf! He didn't seem combative, but when I said "YOU don't live here!" he skittered off to the street. He stopped and looked back, and I was still watching, so he ran across the corner to the converted-to-apartments house on the corner lot. He went behind the house, so he might belong to the people who live upstairs now (it's a fairly high turnover place, not a dump per se, but old houses are old houses).
Miss Chloe came in to tell me all about it. I told her she was very brave, as I knew she was (she lived on the streets as a dumped cat for a good 6-9 months before I took her in), and she was very full of herself for the rest of the day.
As for me, I had no idea we had another tuxedo cat in the neighborhood.
And when I went to the bathroom a little later, I told Dash and Corrigan that they were slackers, lounging there in the back yard while Chloe held the borders against an intruder. They were not impressed.
The intruding tuxedo cat was visibly larger than Chloe, and had shorter hair, but she was giving him attitude and making it clear in no uncertain terms that he was NOT welcome on HER turf! He didn't seem combative, but when I said "YOU don't live here!" he skittered off to the street. He stopped and looked back, and I was still watching, so he ran across the corner to the converted-to-apartments house on the corner lot. He went behind the house, so he might belong to the people who live upstairs now (it's a fairly high turnover place, not a dump per se, but old houses are old houses).
Miss Chloe came in to tell me all about it. I told her she was very brave, as I knew she was (she lived on the streets as a dumped cat for a good 6-9 months before I took her in), and she was very full of herself for the rest of the day.
As for me, I had no idea we had another tuxedo cat in the neighborhood.
And when I went to the bathroom a little later, I told Dash and Corrigan that they were slackers, lounging there in the back yard while Chloe held the borders against an intruder. They were not impressed.
