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I live on the ground floor in a fourplex, and my resident cat lives mostly in my bedroom or spends time in a connected foyer area. Both my bedroom and the foyer are accessible by gated doors, and these doors are left open with the gates closed 6 months out of the year. They lead outside to an outdoor porch, which then leads to an outdoor garden in front.
I'd like to start feeding the neighborhood ferals soon, but can't figure out an optimal place for doing this. I definitely don't want to feed them at the front of the house, because then they'll start regularly congregating there for food. My cat doesn't have the option of escaping to the back of the house when they hang around, nor does have 24/7 access to the foyer, so I don't want to start attracting strange cats to her territory.
I've thought of feeding them at the back of the house, but was told by a Catsite poster that cats don't poop where they eat - it seems like the logical place for them to poop if they ate at the back of the house would be the front, where there's plenty of dirt to use. I definitely don't want this happening as I'm trying to minimize any contact with them and my resident cat.
The sides of the house are bordered by driveways, which are used by the fourplexes to each side of us - my neighbors will not want me placing cat food there, especially as it's likely to get driven over (the driveways are very narrow).
What would be a good place to leave food given these constraints?
I'd like to start feeding the neighborhood ferals soon, but can't figure out an optimal place for doing this. I definitely don't want to feed them at the front of the house, because then they'll start regularly congregating there for food. My cat doesn't have the option of escaping to the back of the house when they hang around, nor does have 24/7 access to the foyer, so I don't want to start attracting strange cats to her territory.
I've thought of feeding them at the back of the house, but was told by a Catsite poster that cats don't poop where they eat - it seems like the logical place for them to poop if they ate at the back of the house would be the front, where there's plenty of dirt to use. I definitely don't want this happening as I'm trying to minimize any contact with them and my resident cat.
The sides of the house are bordered by driveways, which are used by the fourplexes to each side of us - my neighbors will not want me placing cat food there, especially as it's likely to get driven over (the driveways are very narrow).
What would be a good place to leave food given these constraints?