It's a dog eat dog err cat world..

A while back I wrote about the letter I received from my homeowner association requesting that I stop feeding the feral cats in the neighborhood. I finally found out what prompted the letter and subsequent phone call.

One of my neighbors (we call her "The Bitch," not surprisingly) was upset because her dog - an akita - essentially the Hummer of the canine crowd was roaming around the development off-leash and had found/caught a a new friend - one of the local feral cats.

Being the akita's new best friend was not high on the cat's to-do list though. Not surprisingly, the cat was afraid. Very afraid. The dog scared the shit out of the cat. Literally. The dog had the cat pinned down in the foyer and the cat shit. It shit long and hard. It shat on the floor, it shat on the walls. Everywhere but, perhaps, the proverbial kitchen sink..

They finally pulled Fido (not her real name) off her new friend, and the cat fled. Not outside unfortunately, but further into the house, up the stairs into a bedroom, where it clung to a window screen, the closest thing to "outside" it could find.

It clung there, terrified, until they pushed the screen outward. It then leapt to freedom (from a second story window no less). You're thinking "whoa, that's some drop!" But thankfully its fall was broken by, that's right Johnny, their new Saab convertible which had been conveniently parked under the window with its top down, where it continued to shit. This has all the makings of a bad Seinfeld episode.

I know, I should feel sorry for them, they apparently had to have someone come out and bleach the crap out of their walls, but don't they deserve what they got? Yes, of course they do. Their dog should never be out of control. It was a feral cat this time, what's it going to be next time, one of the smaller dogs in the neighborhood? Perhaps a small child?

I do, however, feel sorry for the cat that their dog nearly killed, and for the rest of the cats in the neighborhood who will now have to actually hunt for their food...