David's Daily Diversions

Cats and Dogs

Moving to our new house, I have discovered that there are two types of neighbourhoods, cat neighbourhoods and dog neighbourhoods.

Back in Purgatory, we lived in a dog neighbourhood. There was the rottweiler and the sheepdog upstairs. There was a seeing eye dog next door. There were other canines roaming around the common area, both with and without accompanying owners. There was dog poo everywhere.

The new place is defintely in the heart of cat country. There are felines lounging around day and night. It's not uncommon to see four or five of them as I'm driving down our street. Whenever I pull up after dark, there is always at least one of them stretched out across our driveway and usually two sitting on the neighbour's car.

Where Aidan used to hear the dogs and constantly let us know they were out there by making his woofing sound (which is more like "huh! huh!"), now he always wants to go out on the patio to see if the cats are out. He stands at the sliding glass door and says "maow, maow, maow" over and over until someone pulls it open, then rushes over to the low fence to look into the neighbour's back garden.

The nice thing about living in a cat neighbourhood is that cats don't keep us up all night meowing ferociously at every person that walks by. And they generally find a discreet place to poo as well.