Cat Poop

I was so worried about the slugs, but it seems that the cat poop in the garden beds is by far the worst threat to the new plants.

Today, not only was there another cat poop that had ruined a few onion starts, but there was a dead, gutted songbird on the front walkway, its entrails just right of it's head beside a long cat poop. Have I mentioned that our sweet, cuddly lap cat has become Defender of the Premises? She recently went outside and since has little interest in being inside with us. Apparently now she is making statements with wildlife. I am still trying to figure out how the entrails of this poor creature ended up next to the cat poop. Did the cat eat the bird's stomach and then poop it out? Or did it simply poop next to the dismembered bits? Seems odd that a cat would just poop on the concrete. Perhaps she was trying to make a statement, to warn other birds. This will happen to you too!

I am glad for the prospect of fewer rats and mice threatening to crawl into the old, cracked foundation, glad for the aggressive packs of squirrels and Stellar's Jays to back off from the hazelnuts and the peas. But I am not happy about the threat towards the local birdlife. Birds have enough problems. We were just starting to see some different birds coming around. Now I'm worried that they will all stay away. I will have to look into habitats we could create for them that they might take to with a ferocious cat around.