Lol.. funny you should mention cats! We are the only house in the surrounding area that doesn’t have a dog! Our house was like cat highway until recently- I think people have moved etc, so perhaps that is why the vole has moved in- between owls, red kites (who only take them occasionally) and cats, I’m hoping the population can be kept under control!
Vole numbers are crashing nationally - so I, like Dove, would celebrate.
It is a good question, though, about the conflicting aims of a garden. I also am trying to be mostly wildlife centred, but then I have tonnes of slugs and snails a-chomping, foxes a-digging, endless mosquitoes a-biting, pigeons a-pooing (no partridge in a pear tree - if only). It's not really the kind of 'wildlife' I was hoping for (legions of cats, neither).
Interesting. Well my kids have called it Paddy, so I think it’s staying! I also found a very fat frog in a bucket that I think had got a bit stuck... it’s the first frog in the pond and looked very at home!
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It is a good question, though, about the conflicting aims of a garden. I also am trying to be mostly wildlife centred, but then I have tonnes of slugs and snails a-chomping, foxes a-digging, endless mosquitoes a-biting, pigeons a-pooing (no partridge in a pear tree - if only). It's not really the kind of 'wildlife' I was hoping for (legions of cats, neither).
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.