The only reason I finally have more plants in my house is because my cats have died over the last two years. I miss the cats, but I'm not getting any more. (The cats both adopted me, after turning up on their own, so things can change, but I suspect on this end of the village the coyotes keep the population down. I think I heard such an event in the middle of the night last week - the howling anger at the coyote barking suddenly stopped. I wasn't able to get to the back door to wave my high intensity flashlight soon enough to scare them off.)

SRS