When I was kid living on the west coast when had a Tom Cat named Shorty that kept the place free of of critters, Racoons, Rats, Snakes, Mice, Moles, Shrews, stray cats, dogs, not much on birds, the occasional person, he was a tough old bugger
my mother was the one that fed him so god help anything that tried to get between my mother and him. One day I came home from school and mother said there was a stray Shepard that tried come close and every time he tried Shorty would charge him, it wound up that between the two of them they put the run on the dog, some time later on a weekend I heard a dog frantically barking a couple of houses down from us and a woman yelling go away so I went to look and there was my tomcat up on the woman's porch after her terrier and she was trying to hit the cat with a broom so I called for him and got yelled at for having dangerous pet. No problems with yappy terriers after that, he was a great cat.
Bill the demon.
