Dear
@Margaret63 - sorry about your puddytats - but they are company, and warm and cuddly!
I used to have a tiny cat who, when I moved house, slept on my large bed (I do have a Queen-size bed, which I never changed to single - ever hopeful! haha!) and she was a lovely thing, never disturbed me, except once, in the old house, years ago, when I slept in and suddenly woke to a small cat's claw in my nose - I had a tiny hole in the tip of my nose for years - she had been trying to wake me because she was hungry! I had to eventually say 'good-bye' to her, because she could barely walk, didn't make it up to my bed. I never forget that fateful trip to the vet (and I stayed with her throughout the procedure), but she was close to 24 years old - she had been through my children's teenage years, was hubby's favourite cat - we had three cats then, two boys and this one little girl (Antonella, 'Ant' for short) who kept them 'in order' - if she was in possession' of the dining room and the humans in it, they stayed at the perimeter - it was amusing to watch this tiny terrorist keeping the big guys at bay.
We always had animals, dogs too, a duckling at one stage too, until it got bigger, and had to join the others outdoors.
One failed attempt at 3 mice which had been brought home by the kids from the school fair - I put them in a cage, which I hung from the kitchen ceiling, with three cats in strategic positions 'on the ground' watching -
needless to say, Next morning: the cage was on the floor the door open - and not a single mouse to be seen - hard lesson for my children . . .
Take care - take a look at some human toms now and then - there are some good ones around . . . . you are still young!
Taurisk
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) The bush and surrounding farmland is amazing but sadly there is so much human induced rubbish all around that is hard to escape from as it's more visible when one is walking but at least nowhere as bad as in places like India where there are rubbish dumps on acreage with rubbish piled as high as 5-10 storey buildings with many people literally living off recycling some of the waste - hard to imagine how bad the stench would be.
Grateful to be living here - perhaps take many things for granted.
