Unfortunately, we have too many cats. My partner volunteers at an animal rescue place and we have failed too many times at fostering feral kittens. We get them tame but we fall in love with them and they end up staying. So, no more fostering and we are at our limit with 6 cats and 3 dogs. They do have scratching posts, several, and they use the fish tail palm in the yard but they also really like those big caudex's on the desert rose and the pony tail palm. They killed a really large pony tail palm (Beaucarnea recurvata) by girdling it and my not noticing it in time.
It is such a shame what is happening in Thailand, really horrible. I have friends leaving for Bangkok on Nov 2nd and they are trying to decide if they need to change their flight. They are mainly going to Cambodia but Bangkok was the direct flight.
We are also looking at a hurricane, Rina, that is due to hit directly where our condo is on the Caribbean coast a couple of hours from here. Not too bad, it has been downgraded now to a Cat 1 but the storm surge is always a worry. Friends arrive tonight to stay with us rather than ride it out with 4 kids, I'm glad they made that decision.
