Best pictures 2014 - 3

In 2014 we had a lot of reparation and construction work to do

New cathouse at the shelter.

Our old water tank in the cat compound behind the main house is being transformed into a new cat house. We had fixed gutters at all the houses, but the water was much too dirty and intricate filtering methods were much too costly. So this monstrous “item” was standing around, totally useless.

Slowly but surely the cathouse project is assuming shape. Every day I was at the shelter to speed up and supervise the works.

Here you see the whole „thing“ completed.

In the compound with our small cathouse will be put up freshly vaccinated cats waiting for neutering
as they are still too young for spaying.

This compound had to be made escape-proof therefore- which meant that all the trees had to be cut.
We had been forced to complete such radical “cures” several times in the last years already.

Lying in wait for….

From here I can cast an eye into the surgery room and see whether work is going on there…

What’s up?

I control that these bipeds do their job well.

We cut down all the trees and bushes as we wanted to avoid that non-neutered cats had a chance of running off.

The cats didn’t appreciate at all that all their climbing-trees and hideaways in the bushes were removed.

After a lot of cats had run off again, we bothered what they became without the chance to re-enter the compound. So we decided to fix an exit for them. In this area of the cat garden are only neutered cats; Cats which are too young for neutering are in the garden with the new small cat house.

This is the new exit: cats can decide by themselves when or if they return into the compound.

On the other side of the wall we cut a few palm-trees and put the stems in a way to the walls, that the cats can easily get back into the compound.

Zo, our helper in the cat house, stated that at first almost all the cats had disappeared; but in the long run more and more return at mealtimes. Cats stroll around at night; I think they come when they are too hungry or thirsty.

Unfortunately we had unwelcome and unpleasant visitors in the shelter again this year.

2 meters 75 is quite long, isn't it?

At first you can’t see the green snake. But just when you open the door, it falls down - landing probably in front of your feet.