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A. takes exception with the phrase "just about everyone". 
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I'd never heard this expression before, but we once had a porch cat. Some inane and cruel person dropped of a young cat in the countryside near our home, and she eventually came looking around our yard for food and shelter. I have a self-imposed I'm-not-going-to-turn-into-the-weird-cat-lady two-cat limit, and at the time our household was already at the limit, so I couldn't adopt her ... BUT ... we fed her and tended to her and looked for a home for her. We didn't let her inside, so she would meet us on the front porch, and so we started to call her our porch kitty. Then, of course, we named her Porsche.
Happily, Porsche ended up as the pampered pet in a one-cat, no-kids household.
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My porch cat just hung around expecting to be fed. I had just moved in and assumed she was a neighbor cat that was used to visiting. Then one day she showed up with a left front paw the size of a frisbee and I took her to the vet. She then became my housemate. Later I figured that she had been the cat of the previous residents, college students who, no doubt, had to leave and Asphodel had chosen that time to take one of her three day jaunts, returning to find an empty house.
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we once had a porch cat.... Happily, Porsche ended up as the pampered pet in a one-cat, no-kids household.
We have 12 "porch cats." But with three porches, they are spread out somewhat. In any event, that is a little off topic.
We also have a "Yard Dog." Some people think a Yard Dog is a tractor. In Florida, a Yard Dog is an alligator. Much better at keeping visitors at bay than any Porch Dog.
By the way, cats are far too smart to go near an alligator.
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Good grief, Komowkwa, I'm with the cats on this one; I'd also avoid your back yard. How do you shoo the alligator away so you can use your yard?
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Good grief, Komowkwa, I'm with the cats on this one; I'd also avoid your back yard. How do you shoo the alligator away so you can use your yard?
Just go out and yell, "Shoe! Shoe!" Alligators hate threats like that.
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Just go out and yell, "Shoe! Shoe!" Alligators hate threats like that.
Or either they don't like the taste of your shoes, one.
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> Shoe! Shoe!
yeah, and it sounds better than "Handbag! Handbag!"...
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