This evening, I received a call from Cmpl. He was complaining about Lizzie and wanted someone to get rid of her. I had already informed him a few days ago that a kind neighbour had agreed to adopt Lizzie and that we were in the process of catching her.
But Cmpl wanted Lizzie gone.
I know, the majority of humans are non-animal lovers. Say no more.
We will do what we can, for Lizzie’s sake.
So husband bought wire netting and netted up the gate. His plan was to try and lure Lizzie in tomorrow morning by opening our gate, then once she is in, we close the gate. The bars have been wire-netted, so she won’t be able to escape.
That was the plan.
But Lizzie had other plans!
Once the gate had been wire-netted, after awhile, suddenly, Lizzie was already inside our porch!!
How did she get in??
Husband quickly informed me, “She’s inside, call the adopter!”. He thought she wouldn’t be able to go out again.
So I called the adopter but he wasn’t home; he had gone out.
In any case, Lizzie had got through the wire netting into our porch now, so we had to do everything possible to keep her inside until the adopter returned tonight.
We brought food out, but she wasn’t hungry (she had just eaten an earlier dinner).
Then, I noticed her water bowl was empty, so I went to fill it up and she quickly went to drink water. She was thirsty.
Here she is. Upon checking the CCTV much, much later, Lizzie had walked in by nudging through the wire netting….effortlessly. Just breezed in. Then she wandered around our porch for at least five minutes before husband noticed her.
She’s drinking water here after I filled her water bowl.
Then, she just casually sauntered out of the wire-netted gate! How did she do it?
I thought perhaps she squeezed through the bottom part of the gate, but upon checking the CCTV, husband said she lifted (yes, lifted!) part of the netting and walked out through the bars. She exactly which part of the netting could be lifted.
Lizzie is as smart as a cat! So now we know she can come in and out of our wire-netted gate, so we will have to think of something else.
We will have to try again tomorrow since Cmpl has voiced his unhappiness.
It’s for Lizzie’s sake and safety, not his.
Animal-lovers are the minority, and in doing what we do, we sometimes have to pacify and be nice to non animal-lovers. Please do not take this is a sign of weakness; it isn’t. We do this for the sake of the animals’ safety and wellbeing because it is very easy for non animal-lovers to cause harm to the innocent and trusting animals.
In fact, it takes more strength to rise above their intolerance, and not respond with anger or hatred.