Obviously, I don’t hurt the cat, especially that I really like cats (as well). And it’s not just about the cat.

It’s a nice, big, black tomcat who lives in one of the neighbour’s houses.
He keeps patrolling around from there and regularly searches our yard. He never finds anything interesting outside, but he comes and walks around anyway.

There is another nightly guest, a weasel. Or ferret or some of his kind, I really can’t tell them apart.

The cat crawls all over the car. He jumps up from the back, grabs the rear wiper and pulls himself up. From there, he walks across the roof, slides down the windshield, stomps around on the hood for a bit, then jumps off the front.

It doesn’t make any sense, because I’m parked away from everything, so he can’t get onto anything from the car but his ego must be really pleased.

And I’m raging and cursing the fat bastard (and his ancestors) because the car is covered in his muddy footprints. Because he always makes sure his feet are muddy, even when the garden is bone dry. Haven’t got a clue how he does it.

The weasel (or ferret or what) is another story.

I didn’t know about him and I don’t know how long he has been visiting us. I can only see that occasionally furry or feathery remains appear under the hood. Sometimes we find clear evidence that his digestion is in full working condition…

I once found the complete back of a chicken between the battery and the air filter!

Fortunately, the cables have been left alone so far.

I’ve now had enough of these intruders and decided to put out some motion-sensor alarms, which use ultrasound and strobe lights to scare off uninvited guests. I have already ordered them, I hope they will be effective.

I’m grinning inside, imagining the surprise on their faces when the alarm goes off.

But if they don’t work, I’m going to build some other defense system, a sort of virtual wall that will be impenetrable to those I want to keep out.

Just like the firewall, that protects my website, would only let through who I want to let through.

I’m still wondering if it’s worth building the kind of layered protection against the cat-and-weasel (or ferret) duo that we build around websites.

We’ll see if the single level protection will be effective enough.
Maybe these animals will not be as sophisticated as some hackers.