14-07-2018, 05:53 PM
This reminds me of when I was at school. A neighbour, retired from the electricity board, living in the house alongside farmland at the end of the street, fell out of favour with the landowner when he tapped off the electric fence on the farmland to protect his garden.
With my garden I prefer to keep the cats out, as they seem next to useless at keeping pests at bay. We had an infestation of mice a couple of years ago, when the cat population was at it's height. I have a theory that an increased cat population actually causes more problems than it stops. That was certainly so at one point last year when one of next door's cats was on the prowl and a rat, obviously scared by the prescence of the cat, tried to get into our house by the back door (glass, it was closed) when I was standing, clearly visible, just the other side of the door.
Tracy
With my garden I prefer to keep the cats out, as they seem next to useless at keeping pests at bay. We had an infestation of mice a couple of years ago, when the cat population was at it's height. I have a theory that an increased cat population actually causes more problems than it stops. That was certainly so at one point last year when one of next door's cats was on the prowl and a rat, obviously scared by the prescence of the cat, tried to get into our house by the back door (glass, it was closed) when I was standing, clearly visible, just the other side of the door.
Tracy
