I'd like you all to meet Harry.
I'm sorry, please excuse his bad manners. I asked him to please turn around and look at the camera.
He condescended to turn his head slightly and give me a malevolent glare. But on another day, he was all smiles for the camera...
Sort of, anyways.
Harry is our neighbour cat. He lives next door, and spends a lot of time outside, making the rounds of the neighbourhood. He and Mindy like to have "discussions" together, and he often comes to see if she's by the back door...or the front door ...or one of the windows... we hear him meowing out there more often.
He's not very people-friendly and I usually can't get too close to him, but once in awhile he will come join us if we're sitting on the back porch.
Speaking of our back porch, it has a screen door, of which the bottom portion looks like this:
Questions as to how the tears came to be will have to be directed to Harry, and pleadings of innocence must be ignored.
If I fold back the torn portions, it makes a nice cat-sized hole, see?
It seems that Harry had some method to his madness, when he first started creating that hole last summer. A few weeks ago, I walked into the kitchen only to see a grey tail go past the edge of the cupboard. Our Mindy-Kitty does not have a grey tail. Harry had just marched into our home through the hole he had created in our screen door!
We managed to chase him out before the Mindy-Kitty awoke (some guard cat she is!) and we're even more diligent to keep the patio door closed if we're not providing careful surveillance. Because if it isn't the Mindy-Kitty trying to sneak out, it is Harry marching in!
The good news for us is we are upgrading our patio door, and anticipating the arrival of the new one any day now... and that will include a new screen...on the inside so Harry won't be able to attack it as often!
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