Wordless Wednesday

No friend of mine

Remember Dado? It seems that guy is here to stay. He's been nosing around in our garden regularly, getting himself into fights with the neighbour cats Frida and Lilly.

Here he's sitting on our wall.Siena on her way to chase him off.

Quite often there's one heck of a noise in the middle of the night and we know that it's Dado, challenging Frida. Frida is a tough cookie, but Dado is a big mancat.

One morning mom went outside and saw this. This is not Lilly. It's Dado. He made it onto their garage roof.

This is wrong. So wrong. Dado, go back to where you belong!

Several times mom found Dado threatening Chilli in the other world behind our wall. Mom knows something is wrong when Chilli doesn't come when called and nowadays it's most probably because Dado has her locked somewhere.

Today he actually chased Chilli up our maple tree.

In our own garden!

Siena never ever went up so high and she likes to climb trees.

The little one was up really high! Parallel to the balcony of the third floor, every appartment has the ceiling at 3,40 m. Just imagine.

Chilli was scared and cried for help.

Mom organised a ladder to get a bit closer to her but there was no way to reach her. We would have needed a ladder two and a half times as big to reach the little one!

Luckily having mom closer helped and Chilli got down on her own after a while.

It was so heartwarming seeing her descend backwards down that loooong trunk. Mom and a neighbour who was helping applauded the little one.

Mom sent a text message to Dado's owner saying that they have to have a talk and that she should get in contact with us, but so far she didn't call back. If Dado keeps causing so much trouble it will be trouble for his owner!
According to Chilli the worst bit was that Lilly was watching the whole time.

We were a bit exhausted but finished the day off nicely by doing one of my favourite things in the garden: Digging a deep hole! I love to zoom in and out of earth holes, helping with the digging and all. It makes me feel very frisky!It was Chilli's first opportunity to help digging a hole and she did nicely.

And no, the hole wasn't for Dado but for a beautiful hibiscus. ; )

Purrs to all,
Siena Snowfox

Gardening Cat

This weekend I was snoopervising my mom outside. She behaved in quite a weird way and, what's worse, seemed insatisfied with my attempts to help her setting things straight. Of course I had only the best of intentions! So, what was she doing? Well, first she digged a hole in the dirt, then she put other dirt from a bag in the hole and then she proceeded with putting all the previously digged out dirt back again! In the meantime she had added one more of those fun hiding-plants. She says, that's gardening. Phew, I don't know... do your humans do that too?

If you watch closely, you'll see that I'm not playing like mad getting myself all dirty, no, I was trying to get a leaf from the bottom of the hole. I won't comment all the work I did in the following pictures, just judge for yourself...

Here I was looking for something I had lost in the hole, which my mom thoughtlessly filled with water. He, he, he, apparently that last shaking of my paw delivered dirt-drops on both my mom and her flashy box. Come on, mom, don't be finicky! So what do you think: Am I a good Gardening Cat or should I improove some of my technique?