Kitties Can't Read the Rules

 

A fellow member of the Fenton Community Garden, Tina Joy, shared this adorable fellow's photo to our online Buy Nothing group on Facebook trying to find his owner. Luckily, they ere located shortly after and it turns out they live just a few doors down from the garden.

The community garden rules state that "no pets are allowed," but clearly this young kitty cannot read and the warm wood chips path are a lovely place to take a nap. The rule is mainly aimed at folks who would like to take their dogs to hang out with them there and we all know dogs doing their thing there can quickly make things unpleasant and unsanitary.

We do have some other neighboring cats that frequent the garden. These are feral strays that live at the nearby car repair shops. This little colony is all TNR and helps to keep down the rodent population in the industrial area and adjacent park property. These working cats may give this kitty quite an education if he is again permitted outdoors! I hope this cute visitor's owners keep a close eye on him.

The Allotment Cat

Robert the Allotment Cat is " a cat living on an allotment site (community garden) in Birmingham UK. My human does not understand cats. I am trying to help her."

He communicates through his Twitter account @AllotmentCat.

I contact his human, Betty, and she was happy to have me share Robert's photos with you all. Here are some of my favorites --

I love drinking from this thing. My human says it's for watering the plants but I don't care and anyway, the plants seem to be doing well on it so maybe it will do me good too. What do you think?

My human and some others sat around the table and talked. I thought it would be good if I helped so I lay down on top of some paper. My human said I will have to join the committee. What's a committee?

Apparently she doesn't know anything about cats. I don't believe her, she knows how to make me happy. She picked me up and I loved it so she does it every day now. I think I have trained her well. The last 18 months have been the best in my life.

I liked one of the humans a lot. I kept her company in the greenhouse, she told me I was her best boy and that I would be known as 'Robert' from now on. I was happy, I sat and looked at her so she could take a photo. She takes LOTS of photos.

I started to like being here. I went to the greenhouse every day. There was a human there who put food down for me when she saw me. Other humans came to see me and I began to feel really special.

Earlier this year I helped my human to grow lots of plants. I am careful and I don't squash them. I like gardening.

I think our allotments are special. The humans look after us cats (there are 7 of us living there) and we have lovely warm beds to sleep in and lots of food every day. I sometimes sleep in a greenhouse.

Cruise Control

Rindy O'Brien of Washington, DC, shared this cat photo. She said, "He is a regular in the Green Seed Garden on Capitol Hill — loved cruising around the manicured pathways and sunning himself in the community gathering area outside the vegetable fence."