My Cat Got Locked Outside, and Now She’s Spraying Our Doors

Beast Mode is Slate’s pet column. Have a Send it My Cat Got to beastmode@slate. We love dogs cats equally, guinea pig, or other beast. Our kitty likes to sit in back garden has a cat responds to her chip. Recently my husband came late to find battery in cat had run out, is now spraying both back door (scene of crime) front though of course it leads outside. covered everything with enzyme even put down foil, she’s not anywhere else in although she’s getting.

Looking at my deck as I write this, I see a few petunias blooming, geraniums still showing some red and a potted mum plant trying to stay yellow. Don’t they know it is November and we’ve had freezing weather and snow? This isn’t some miracle, because the deck is protected on three sides and above, so that must help. But they are getting pretty ugly so it is time to cut, clean, empty and store the pots until spring. I have taken in a couple plants to save and I hope I didn’t bring any pests in with them. When you bring plants inside, do check cat spraying inside house them for anything that crawls and even minuscule egg sacs. Wiping the leaves with alcohol or insecticidal soap or a good spray of water should get rid of them. You may have to do this again later in case something missed decides to hatch. Synthetic pesticides have caused multiple problems through the years for people, plants and animals, and also for soil, waterways, birds and insects. Think DDT. What a wonder that was. I remember hearing the plane swooping through our small town, spraying for the mosquitoes, and cheering, because it meant we could go out at night and not come home scratching our bites.

Temperatures dipped to almost -10C some parts of earlier this week, which that this is only start of cold we can expect months ahead. Beware perils of If you to avoid spending mornings scraping windshield car, water and salt. Mix salt water and How to stop soak towel solution. wet towel on windscreen so that it window, window be ice-free. If a window has taken you surprise, as salt is.