The air suddenly filled with an eerie sound -- a higher pitched howl than a growl, but coming from a growling throat. Tom sprang from the chair with the soft, fake-fur throw to the bed below the window. He reared up on his hind legs to look out the window. I followed his gaze. On the high
board fence separating my property from that of my neighbor was a cat with a collar. Tom had yet
to be influenced by a nearby cat, except outside where he was most likely to retreat before a strange
cat. He jumped up to the window sill to make his presence authoritative.
Tom repeated the howl over and over, his altered voice still affecting his speech. The cat on the fence didn't look in his direction through the window. Why did this cat excite such a menacing response in the cool-cat personality which is Tom. My impression was that the fence cat was a female, not that such has ever had any real affect on my altered Tom. Yet in some ways she resembled Tom, but with much more white fur. In fact, she was white with several small patches of striped fur of the same color as Tom's mostly striped head and back. Only his chest and underbelly are white.
Did he regard this feline as a relative that hadn't acknowledge his territory? Or was this a sudden and very emotional warning to the marauder? Stay off my space. Can't you tell it is NO TRESPASSING here?
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