A Hunting We Will Go...

In the past several months we have been finding cat poop in the planter right in front of our house. It has been making us crazy because the cat will poop right in the planter on top of or next to our freshly planted flowers and then dig a hole to cover the poop. Basically the dumb cat has been digging up our flowers! I tried everying - cayane pepper, cat repellant powder, etc. It seems that nothing worked long term, only for a few days at a time. The worst was that when people would come to our door they could spell the horrible poop! It was very depressing that our doorstep and doorway always smelled of cat poop.

SO, we decided to get a cat trap. We hid the trap behind some of the plants and put a paper plate in it with sardines on the plate. The next morning we had a cat! Ryan had all sorts of plans for the cat that I didn't think sounded very nice. So, I took the cat and drove far, far away from our house and let it out in someone elses neighborhood. The funny thing was that the cat wasn't one I had EVER seen before! Of course it didn't have any tags on it so we figured it was a stray.



So, we hoped we had gotten the right cat and it seemed we did until this week... We have had more poop in our planter so I finally just ripped out all the flowers and just left the bigger plants. I am so mad at this dumb neighborhood cat! We got the cat trap again and put it out - in plain sight. For a whole week nothing has been in the trap. THEN, this morning Ryan came in and told me we caught something, but not a cat!

We caught a possum! He hate ALL the sardines that were in there and let me tell you - they had been in there a week so they couldn't have been very tasty... He seemed a little scared and then he growled at us...


I don't know if this possum is the pooping culprit but now I am going to have to get online and compare cat poop to possum poop because whatever pooped in our planter last night got it right on the bricks surrounding the planter!!! UGH. I wish the animals would poop in their owners yards or atleast whoever is feeding them!