Working in garden sounds heaven! I'm a support worker for adults with learning difficulties, we do some gardening
My cars have all been rescues, Sorrow booked into our shed...a pure white thelegged beauty. We had her for eight years she passed aged fifteen but was a local legend and loved like my child! We lasted a week without a cat....not replacingSorrow but helping home another unloved rescue we have now had Harrie puss for a year and ahalf, she's five and a median hair tabby, very dainty and timid but learning how to be a cat from her friend Flatface who chimed toplay he's an unloved un neutered black and white Tom that talks lol....he was attacked very badly yesterday and his owners had done nothing so I have been salt water bathing and he is much improved
Think it's safe to say we're both cat lovers...and yes I feed the birds too
I have two cats and they both go outside. After 12 years of good behaviour, my old boy decided to stage a dirty protest about goodness knows what last year and left me brown gifts on my lawn - every day! I tried knocking on the kitchen window calling him a dirty little ginger b*gger, but he took no notice at all and just stared at me defiantly while making new deposits as if it was HIS garden or something.
I solved it by giving him a better choice - a load of bark chippings under the leylandii at the bottom of the garden. Been OK ever since.
I know how frustrating it is for people to find the 'deposits' left by cats, but they are, in essence, wild animals with a very thin veneer of domesticity layered on top. They are trainable, with perserverance & kindness, but so many hate cats & go mad at them, instigating a cats natural 'buggerance mode'! Working in a Garden Centre is (usually) good, but, as it's a diy store one, you don't get much chance for individuality (frowned on as not being how the company does it), but my friend & I do our best. We're also not above sending a customer elsewhere if we don't have a particular plant or product in stock....we find people come back more, if they realise you want to help rather than just take as much money as possible off them. We have our own visiting cats within the GC, as well as a resident robin & wren, who have been with us for 14 yrs since our store opened (obviously not the same ones, but you get the picture!) Our Robins have been the funniest. 1st one used to sit on the artificial Xmas trees & sing to the customers, frightened the living daylights out of a few! The present one sits on the shelves by the door to the greenhouse, chittering till we open it, so he can help himself to the seed we sell. the previous one was a little cleverer...he used to fly past the door sensor to open it himself.
Lilwead, I totally understand, I have been in catering, retail andcare work askmylife, unappreciated, underpaid, no scope fir imagination. But the customers do notice exceptional staff and I'm sure you and your team are that in spades fulls sorrycouldn't resist the pun!
If your anything like my friend that used to work at B and Q then you can get to the reduced plants before everyone else got to be some perks!
We have lots of Robbins here...not very tame cautious around cats, as they should be but the love the garden and the bird feeding corner
I have sunk a paint roller tray in the ground and its a perfect paddling pool! Shallow and deep end
And I know how resourceful Robbins are, the is one that lives in our local Morrison's, Fla around the store and hangs around the bakery department, the shoppers love him!
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My cars have all been rescues, Sorrow booked into our shed...a pure white thelegged beauty. We had her for eight years she passed aged fifteen but was a local legend and loved like my child! We lasted a week without a cat....not replacingSorrow but helping home another unloved rescue
Think it's safe to say we're both cat lovers...and yes I feed the birds too
I have two cats and they both go outside. After 12 years of good behaviour, my old boy decided to stage a dirty protest about goodness knows what last year and left me brown gifts on my lawn - every day! I tried knocking on the kitchen window calling him a dirty little ginger b*gger, but he took no notice at all and just stared at me defiantly while making new deposits as if it was HIS garden or something.
I solved it by giving him a better choice - a load of bark chippings under the leylandii at the bottom of the garden. Been OK ever since.
I know how frustrating it is for people to find the 'deposits' left by cats, but they are, in essence, wild animals with a very thin veneer of domesticity layered on top. They are trainable, with perserverance & kindness, but so many hate cats & go mad at them, instigating a cats natural 'buggerance mode'! Working in a Garden Centre is (usually) good, but, as it's a diy store one, you don't get much chance for individuality (frowned on as not being how the company does it), but my friend & I do our best. We're also not above sending a customer elsewhere if we don't have a particular plant or product in stock....we find people come back more, if they realise you want to help rather than just take as much money as possible off them. We have our own visiting cats within the GC, as well as a resident robin & wren, who have been with us for 14 yrs since our store opened (obviously not the same ones, but you get the picture!) Our Robins have been the funniest. 1st one used to sit on the artificial Xmas trees & sing to the customers, frightened the living daylights out of a few! The present one sits on the shelves by the door to the greenhouse, chittering till we open it, so he can help himself to the seed we sell. the previous one was a little cleverer...he used to fly past the door sensor to open it himself.
The cat owners on here are obviously fantastic owners. Wish you were my neighbours.
If your anything like my friend that used to work at B and Q then you can get to the reduced plants before everyone else
We have lots of Robbins here...not very tame cautious around cats, as they should be but the love the garden and the bird feeding corner
I have sunk a paint roller tray in the ground and its a perfect paddling pool! Shallow and deep end
And I know how resourceful Robbins are, the is one that lives in our local Morrison's, Fla around the store and hangs around the bakery department, the shoppers love him!