Our ladies are house cats. In their lifetime, the only record that we let them out was when we moved from our old place to San Pablo. We kept them safe at our home to prevent one of them from being impregnated by a stray male cat elsewhere.
I love cats, however, caring for extra cats again will be draining our budget. Cat food and litter cost almost 1/4 of our household expenses and if they will increase, I might do more jobs than I am doing right now.
Good thing that in our place there's a program for spaying and neutering that is free after making sure that Betbet's fully healed April and I agreed it is time for them to make a stroll outside.
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The two ladies are different. Betbet is more of a house cat that just stays in one place either sniffing everything or even munching some grass in the field while Proty's the active girl that wants to go to as far as she can reach.
It is fun watching them enjoy the new surrounding however an incident happened earlier that made me decide to ground the girls from leaving the house.
April and Dyn-dyn visited Tatay's house this afternoon while I am sleeping. The two girls snuck into the doors, and outside, both of them enjoying the field on their own. Usually, either I or April's looking for the girls each time that we let them out, but this afternoon they got away on their own.
If you think cats are not smart, think again.
So both of them played outside until I saw a male cat in the background. In our stay here we never saw one male cat in our backyard, thus I am not sure what happened and why there's the sudden summoning of cats in the area.
Maybe because of their smell or how noisy the two are when they are playing? Who knows?
The ladies aren't used to other cats around. There are times wherein if they feel discomfort, they failed to recognize each other as well. You can hear the hiss and anger from the back as they tried to shoo away the male cat but sadly the intruder was an expert too late. I could get rid of the male cat and Betbet got some minor injuries in the said fiasco.
We think that the male cat is under his in-heat moment thus he is quite an aggressive one but still since both girls are already spayed, reproduction isn't possible anymore.
As a workaround, and to make sure that no cats will be around the area, we ground the girls for a while and double-check the lock in our doors as these two ladies are smart to think of a way to open it.
I want them to enjoy outside but if it will impose such dangers better have them supervised. Same concept will be applied to Dyn-Dyn