Fbg 7.6
I need some more cat litter for Popeye. I do have some, but if this is going to go on as long as it might, then I don't want him out at all in the day, when people may be around, there is one neighbour (down the bottom of the road) who doesn't like cats at all, and years ago he used to post nasty things in my letter box (he did it anonymously but I lay in wait and caught himself oneday...) and he has a habit of generating bad feeling against a neighbour he doesn't like, I have been the target of this in the past, but others have too.Also there was a spate of cat poisonings at one time, especially those bungalows around him who had cats. Fake news like you can catch Coronavirus from animals will give him all the hate fuel he needs.
So I am taking no chances with Popeye. He is not going to be seen in daytime outside. He has always been an outdoors cats, and that exercise is what keeps him mentally alive. Shut indoors totally and he goes depressed. Let him go out, albeit briefly at night, and he is so much more mentally alert.
Popeye does like to patrol this property. There is one section where to do his 'job' properly he has to patrol the outside for about 20 yards, but it is between me and the neighbour whose bungalow is empty (because she went into a home, poor sod). So Popeye and I have come to an agreement. He goes out briefly at night now. Yes he does wake me up in the night, and I go open the kitchen door for him and I stand guard until he comes back. He knows and appears to appreciate this. He is still very wary after that bad attack on him.
So cat litter and a bit more cat food and cat treats today. I am going to look for a few more meat tins if I can. But if none available, then austerity rules, and I shall ration the food I have, starting from now. I wouldn't mind finding a few more treats for me, albeit ones I wouldn't normally eat, but not if #coughgate is at any tills.
Got to get to the area I need to be for 8 am so bye, will catch up with this thread later.
Take care, will read when I come back...