One cool dude ....
Billy relaxing in his private cat pen. He really uses his personal refuge intensively. We have officially established that Billy is a nocturnal outdoor cat rather than an indoor one. For a long time I was able to get him back in when we went to bed, but that gradually became more difficult. Once inside, he would then wake us (read:ME) up a few hours later, forcing me to usher him out again in the middle of the night.
After a lot of broken nights we have now come to a more comfortable arrangement, both for him and for me. We now allow him to stay out at night and he rewards us by offering us a few mice every morning. When I turn the key in the back door in the morning, he mostly comes running from somewhere in the garden. More and more often he's fast asleep in this pen. Let's hope this arrangement will work out well for all concerned.
One cool dude ....
Billy relaxing in his private cat pen. He really uses his personal refuge intensively. We have officially established that Billy is a nocturnal outdoor cat rather than an indoor one. For a long time I was able to get him back in when we went to bed, but that gradually became more difficult. Once inside, he would then wake us (read:ME) up a few hours later, forcing me to usher him out again in the middle of the night.
After a lot of broken nights we have now come to a more comfortable arrangement, both for him and for me. We now allow him to stay out at night and he rewards us by offering us a few mice every morning. When I turn the key in the back door in the morning, he mostly comes running from somewhere in the garden. More and more often he's fast asleep in this pen. Let's hope this arrangement will work out well for all concerned.