A cottage garden offers great protection for cats and other cat-sized creatures.
My garden's full of cats by day and skunks, possums, and raccoons by night. Most of the cats are indoor-outdoor, but some of the rescued ferals prefer to live only outside. When I feed them their dinner on the porch, the skunks and possums eat with the cats, often out of the same dishes at the same time. The raccoons hang back and wait politely for the leftovers. There has never been a fight.
