[Dailydrool] chiming in about the cats

[Dale Rutz]

We had a lab named Sugar Magnolia (sweet maggie) who loved every living thing 
that ever graced the face of the earth.  Including cats.  I have pictures of her 
snuggled up with a 2 lbs neighbors cat (she was 120 lbs, just enormous).  Anyway 
the neighbor over the back fence and over one (catti corner) rented out their 
house to a family with a cat.  The cat would hop up onto the fence and down into 
our fully fenced backyard.

She would lure my sweet Maggie over there and once Maggie was within range she 
would lash out and slash her open.  One time she ripped open her chest horribly, 
another time she got her in the face.  I SAW it happen and I called animal 
control and I was told the cat was within it's rights and I had to control my 
OWN DOG in her OWN YARD.  Apparently this county has some kind of ordinance 
where cats are allowed to roam free to compat rodents.  BULL CRAP.  These cats 
might go after a mouse here or there but no domestic cat is going to take on a 
raccoon or a roof rat.  I was SO upset and then my mother (may her memory be for 
blessing) told me a few preventatives.

1)  You can buy crystalized tiger urine at the pet store.  We sprinkled it along 
the top of the fence and around the edge of the properly.  Maggie didn't like it 
much but it kept most critters the heck out of our yard.

2)  We buried orange peels in flower beds where cats liked to poop.  They don't 
like the smell of the decomposing peels and they won't dig near them to go poop.

These worked for us.  My husband still hates cats though after all that.

--Dale ... aka the clueless momPerson, who's mom wasn't clueless and was able to 
keep cats from coming around.
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