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Our little 10 year old feral porch kitty resides mainly in our front yard, and she has a little soft bed & water bowl under the bushes next to the porch, sheltered (sort of) from the rain.
She used to roam freely in our front yard and in front of the neighbors' houses on both sides, and would go poop around the side of our house in the mulch, but since the quiet older neighbor on that side moved out and some new neighbors with children moved in, I think she's afraid to go over there now. To make it even worse, the neighbors on the other side recently got a little yappy dog that they let loose in their front yard, and it frequently runs away from them and charges into our front yard.
I think our little feral girl is stressed by all this change, and now rarely leaves her 'safe' zone of the bushes and the garden right in front of our window. She's taken to defecating under the bushes where she spends a lot of her time, uncomfortably close to her little bed and water bowl. I can't move her bed over into the front garden where she often naps because it wouldn't be sheltered from the rain there.
The smell isn't pleasant for us, so I can't imagine it's nice for her. I've been trying to rake the dirt & poop out from under the bushes to try to keep her little area clean, but do you think she'd be likely to use a litter box instead if I put one out there for her?
She used to roam freely in our front yard and in front of the neighbors' houses on both sides, and would go poop around the side of our house in the mulch, but since the quiet older neighbor on that side moved out and some new neighbors with children moved in, I think she's afraid to go over there now. To make it even worse, the neighbors on the other side recently got a little yappy dog that they let loose in their front yard, and it frequently runs away from them and charges into our front yard.
I think our little feral girl is stressed by all this change, and now rarely leaves her 'safe' zone of the bushes and the garden right in front of our window. She's taken to defecating under the bushes where she spends a lot of her time, uncomfortably close to her little bed and water bowl. I can't move her bed over into the front garden where she often naps because it wouldn't be sheltered from the rain there.
The smell isn't pleasant for us, so I can't imagine it's nice for her. I've been trying to rake the dirt & poop out from under the bushes to try to keep her little area clean, but do you think she'd be likely to use a litter box instead if I put one out there for her?
