Strange you should mention B&Q......! It can be a hard, dirty, wet job, not just plants to deal with. Also pots, composts, aggregates, fencing, etc. It is varied but sometimes you'd just like a day where things go smoothly, about Oct that'll be, lol.We have a street cat called Blackie. She's got a lovely home, is well fed, but insists on living on the st. She visits most houses for nibbles, sleeps in the gutter of the road, despite having easy access to her own home (and various snuggle boxes set up in peoples front gardens, for her!). She's a little, straggly, sweetie who is loved by the whole st. Got home from work one day to find her & 2 baby seagulls, curled up asleep on my neighbours path. The parent birds weren't bothered by it, at all!
Wow, Lol, your just like me when it comes to animal then I look after the list, found, injured or frightened! Ah I did wonder if you were at B and q, didn't treat my friend very well and he's an incredible guy! I try to let the cat choose whew it wants to live, but they generally move into my shed and then progress from there! long day at work for me now,,, no bank holiday weekend for retail or care staff huh have a good day
Hope your day has gone well! I got soaked, moved LOTS of plants, pots, saw lots of very nice customers today, which isn't always the norm!, & it's all to do again tomorrow & monday. Ho hum, that's life.
Hey Lil ???? glad your day went well if nota little soggy by the soundsof it!
Customers do appreciate staff, even if company's don't! B and Q treated my friend like crap and he had workedfor them fir 10 YEARS! He is cycling around the world fir charity now! Gearsweneveruse ishis website, fascinating guy and alsoa keen gardener! I'm Gonna tell him about this site when he's back
myday was long! Started at 7am till 1pm then 5 till 9, gottogoin the garden in the middle thoand watered my lawn seed that was down yesterday and nowI hear it'sgoing to rain lol ahh well! Hope you have a good day tomorrow!) I'm working tomorrow and Monday too so yournot alone!
Hello. I am one of those unfortunate people who suffer with an infestation of CATS. I have a beautiful garden where the local cats think it's ok to use it as their toilet! This year I have not spent too much time in my wonderful world of colour and foliage because it smells so awful. I have tried all sort of devices, from electronic sonic sonar, wooden skewers and even grated cold tar soap to try and repel these Furry beasts. Well, cat owners, you should be ashamed of yourselves!!! I understand your love for these fur bags but do not let them roam and deficate on other people's property making their lives very miserable. Yes!! It's making me miserable and adding to my depression. My garden used to be my little haven away from the hustle bustle of my busy working life. I understand it's difficult to stop your pets roaming but why have a pet that doesn't spend time with you!!!!!! Dogs poo, has to be picked up, and can cause all sort of infections if it's not. Well. its the same for cats poo. I'm going to be a grandmother in December. when the baby becomes a toddler I'm not going to be able to let it play in the garden before I inspect it for cat shit. I'm so angry at all you cat owners!!!
@ Ibedmunds: As a cat owner, I'm in the position of being owned by 3 cats that have been trained to use either one of their 3 litter trays or a section of my own garden that I have purposely set aside for their use. I check it twice a day, as well as cleaning the litter trays twice a day. I have assisted my neighbours in preventing MY felines from using their gardens to toilet in. There is a product called Silent Roar made of small clay based granules, infused with (sterilised) big cat urine. It has no odour for humans, but deters domestic cats brilliantly. It is biodegradeable, causing no adverse problems in the garden. Another method I have used is to put a few drops of olbas oil (or something equally as pungent to cats) on small pieces of cotton wool & placed them in areas that the cats have poo'ed. This also deters them...as does a water pistol, if you catch them 'at it'. My cats are regularly vaccinated, wormed & deflead, so do NOT carry the toxocara worm. Cats by their nature, are only one or two steps removed from their wild ancestors, so I'm lucky to have been able to train mine in the way they have been. I refuse to 'be ashamed of being a cat owner'! I also suffer from clinical depression & without my cat companions would have been dead, several years ago, when I was at my worst.
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Strange you should mention B&Q......! It can be a hard, dirty, wet job, not just plants to deal with. Also pots, composts, aggregates, fencing, etc. It is varied but sometimes you'd just like a day where things go smoothly, about Oct that'll be, lol.We have a street cat called Blackie. She's got a lovely home, is well fed, but insists on living on the st. She visits most houses for nibbles, sleeps in the gutter of the road, despite having easy access to her own home (and various snuggle boxes set up in peoples front gardens, for her!). She's a little, straggly, sweetie who is loved by the whole st. Got home from work one day to find her & 2 baby seagulls, curled up asleep on my neighbours path. The parent birds weren't bothered by it, at all!
Hope your day has gone well! I got soaked, moved LOTS of plants, pots, saw lots of very nice customers today, which isn't always the norm!, & it's all to do again tomorrow & monday. Ho hum, that's life.
Customers do appreciate staff, even if company's don't! B and Q treated my friend like crap and he had workedfor them fir 10 YEARS! He is cycling around the world fir charity now! Gearsweneveruse ishis website, fascinating guy and alsoa keen gardener! I'm Gonna tell him about this site when he's back
myday was long! Started at 7am till 1pm then 5 till 9, gottogoin the garden in the middle thoand watered my lawn seed that was down yesterday and nowI hear it'sgoing to rain lol ahh well! Hope you have a good day tomorrow!) I'm working tomorrow and Monday too so yournot alone!
Hello. I am one of those unfortunate people who suffer with an infestation of CATS. I have a beautiful garden where the local cats think it's ok to use it as their toilet! This year I have not spent too much time in my wonderful world of colour and foliage because it smells so awful. I have tried all sort of devices, from electronic sonic sonar, wooden skewers and even grated cold tar soap to try and repel these Furry beasts. Well, cat owners, you should be ashamed of yourselves!!! I understand your love for these fur bags but do not let them roam and deficate on other people's property making their lives very miserable. Yes!! It's making me miserable and adding to my depression. My garden used to be my little haven away from the hustle bustle of my busy working life. I understand it's difficult to stop your pets roaming but why have a pet that doesn't spend time with you!!!!!! Dogs poo, has to be picked up, and can cause all sort of infections if it's not. Well. its the same for cats poo. I'm going to be a grandmother in December. when the baby becomes a toddler I'm not going to be able to let it play in the garden before I inspect it for cat shit. I'm so angry at all you cat owners!!!
@ Ibedmunds: As a cat owner, I'm in the position of being owned by 3 cats that have been trained to use either one of their 3 litter trays or a section of my own garden that I have purposely set aside for their use. I check it twice a day, as well as cleaning the litter trays twice a day. I have assisted my neighbours in preventing MY felines from using their gardens to toilet in. There is a product called Silent Roar made of small clay based granules, infused with (sterilised) big cat urine. It has no odour for humans, but deters domestic cats brilliantly. It is biodegradeable, causing no adverse problems in the garden. Another method I have used is to put a few drops of olbas oil (or something equally as pungent to cats) on small pieces of cotton wool & placed them in areas that the cats have poo'ed. This also deters them...as does a water pistol, if you catch them 'at it'. My cats are regularly vaccinated, wormed & deflead, so do NOT carry the toxocara worm. Cats by their nature, are only one or two steps removed from their wild ancestors, so I'm lucky to have been able to train mine in the way they have been. I refuse to 'be ashamed of being a cat owner'! I also suffer from clinical depression & without my cat companions would have been dead, several years ago, when I was at my worst.
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