We have to stuggle ourselves with our neighbours: as I said our neighbour hates our cats as well as another neighbour does. She is such a frustrated and complicated woman and know for being not an easy person to deal with. She has a large garden where she grows primroses as a business.
That part of the garden is only a small one, the rest is lawn and a hedge around her property. Now she sprays herbicides and pesticides several times a year, in that primrose area and along her fence (she says the plants growing there (grass, chamomille, some wild herbs) damage her fence
. So this is no problem at all for her, no matter how many animals are killed because because of the poison. One hour ago she nearly freaked out because one of our cats tried to catch a bird. She screamed at the cat (which of course she can do as long as she doesn't throw something at her etc.) and engaged in a conversation with the other neighbour (the son of the old lady) about those damned animals etc. My hubby says it wasn't worth being upset about it, but I am upset. So many people around here (not all, thank God) feel free to judge about us, because we don't clip our grass with nail scissors and make a show garden to impress other people. Our garden is pretty wild partly, I have a lot of herbs growing like St. John's Wort, Chamomille, thyme, many,many roses etc. There is dandelion growing between the pads which I remove from time to time but not always (my bees love the flowers). (And we have tons of birds, nesting in our hedges and around the house, despite our cats! )
All this is a thorn in their side, we are subject to much gossip, because they are all such good citizens with manicured gardens (as if that was the distinguishing mark between a good and a bad person). They themselves have many problems as can be but hey, as long as there is somebody they can badmouth everything is fine, right?
I had a really hard time to calm myself again, knowing that they are not better than me and have no right to act that way, but on the other hand I have to live with it as they all never self-reflect and always lash out to others, making the outside world responsible for their problems. My parents had to experience much worse things here and I know how it took a toll on them even though my dad never cared about other people's opinion. I'm quite the same, I'm more concerned about my cats. We had a cat poisoned this sping, another just didn't return home again. One of our cats is so scared of shoes I suppose he has been thrown at with shoes in the past.
I guess I will buy some more tourmaline (I have one or two here but that doesn't seem to be enough), and a friend told me to bury quartz peaks at each corner of the property. Do you know if that helps? I will also use some spells now even though I have almost no experience with spells, but I hope they will work.
Why are people that way? Why can't they go after their own business? They all have enough to work on, why don't they leave others alone? I really abhore those hypocrites! Just as my neighbour, that idiot with the old mother: I met him at the supermarket, wearing old, really dirty clothes, red-faced, with three-day beard, smelly...and in the afternoon I heard him shout at his mother (when she told him to call my brother for helping him in the garden):" Yeah, call him, he has enough to struggle with himself!" That is an insult, out of the blue, just to degrade somebody. My brother is a hard-working craftsman, my neighbour never had to work that hard in his life, but he judges about him.
He once said my dad was no good at his profession, he said my brother only worked as much as was absolutely necessary, and he once introduced me to others as "lazily sitting around at home". I was so perplexed I couldn't even reply. All that from a man who is outright dumb, an alcoholic, who doesn't care about the two boys he is in charge of (they are 16, they smoke, they drink, they are out all night, I told you before), but he thinks he is so much superior to everybody else.
Thanks for letting me get it all off my chest. I think I have to chose some spells now.
I just cannot keep them in the house all the time. They do have their litter boxes so they don't go in the neighbours garden beds (I wouldn'#t want that as well, so I can fully understand when they are angry, but there are a lot of other cats around as well...but only our cats are blamed) but I cannot fully prevent them from doing that. (that bad neighbour of ours has only one garden bed, his mother used to have many more, and he doesn't even use the vegetables he is growing, it is only out of habit. But of course this is no excuse for cats pooing in it. But hey, I remember having bought some quite expensive bird nets for his beds and telling him we would help putting them up so the cats couldn't go in there anymore. He never used them but goes on ranting about our cats. Ha! That's great to remember for me! I have done a ll I can and if he is so stupid then that is not my problem. I even went over again and again to tell him that we would help and that I don#t want to have any trouble because of the cats. He always told me "no, no, no problem!" only to start ranting again one hour later. Such an as........ (sorry!)
