the cat situation, part 3

after a couple weeks of coaxing, jodi finally convinced me to go. I walked over and knocked on the door. as it swung open, I swallowed hard and took a deep breath. "hi, i'm john and we live next door...."

I explained our situation and our neighbor sympathised with us. she really did. she apologized profusely and asked if this was the reason why the cinder block wall dividing our properties was lined with orange peels. I slowly nodded. she said she'd be "pissed" too if someone's animals were doing this in her yard.

I emphasized that we weren't angry with her and that we just wanted something to be done to remedy the situation. we just wanted to stop having to clean up her cats' poo.

we felt better. hope was in sight. so we thought.

things didn't get better. we still picked up 1-2 shovels full of feline feces off our front and back yards on a weekly basis. I'm ashamed to admit that on more than one occasion, instead of shoveling the poo back into the alley-way behind our home, I tossed the shovels of crap back over the cinder block wall onto the animal owner's property. their animals, their poop, right? pitiful.