Steven, you could move to Texas (!! NO don't move to Texas ! Too hot).
Here in San Antonio, AFAICT every subdivision provides, and insists on
the maintenance of, fences surrounding the back yards. About 6 feet
tall, wood, cat-proof at least when new. Unless your cat likes to
jump! A Texas thing, perhaps. From my back slab "patio" I can see the
neighborhood a little. Wow. SO different from the North where we were.
The fences even block my access to the public area behind, a grassy
half-wild flood easement area.
Ol' Bab, who was an engineer, and could see his neighbors...
On 8/28/2015 9:16 PM, Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote:
Jed,
I hope you can get the county to respond to your latest measurement.
In regarding to city matters, I think you are likely to get a better
ending than what our household is currently dealing with.
We have a new neighbor who is threatening to call the city police or
animal control to get one of our two cats, an outdoor cat, Charm,
incarcerated and us fined if he ever finds our cat on his 2nd floor
balcony again in the future. Charm is a rescue we picked up at an
Idaho rest stop about 3 years ago. She is very adventurous. We learned
long ago we couldn't keep Charm incarcerated in our home all day. She
needed outdoor time or else there was hell to pay. This neighbor moved
into our neighborhood a year ago. Ironically, the previous home owner,
he purchased the house from, who is now deceased, liked Charm's
visitations to his 2nd floor balcony. IOW, our cat, Charm, felt
accepted at that house. But now, a new cat-unfriendly neighbor has
moved in and apparently he really hates cats. He believes all cats are
"destructive predators" - bird murderers. We want to respect our new
neighbor's desire that our cat no longer visit his house. But that is
difficult to accomplish when the new neighbor does not want to accept
from us articles like cat repellants (free of charge) that would give
our cat incentive not to visit his property and 2nd floor balcony
anymore. Apparently, our new neighbor would prefer to wait for our cat
to once again visit his balcony so that he can call animal control and
get Charm incarcerated and us fined.
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Regards,
Steven Vincent Johnson
OrionWorks.com
zazzle.com/orionworks
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