We can haz zoo.
May. 28th, 2009 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agoodwinsmithAcross the alley is an apartment on top of a restaurant. The family that lived there moved out about four months ago, and intensive renovations occurred every evening. They threw things away, and installed new things and generally made a racket every evening from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm for at least three months. And then it was empty.
And then there was a cat. Cute grey and white cat, gazing out the windows of an apparently emtpy apartment. That went on for about three weeks. Then one evening we saw two budgies in the window - and yellow and a blue stripey one. And then we noticed there was a thing moving in the background. We watched and watched, and it turned out to be a hunormous red parrot with a really big beak. Two days later, we notice someone moving around inside, bringing a lamp and animal perches. It looked like a cat tree, but when next seen it had a great big blue parrot on it, and near it was a regular bird stand with the big red parrot. And then the owner showed up with four dogs on leashes.
Since then we have seen a black cat who is missing one hind leg. I'm taking bets that she has lizards and rodents, as well. We're not actually sure that any human lives there with all the other beings.
It's kinda neat, in a I'm-glad-I-don't-live-there kind of way. We see a lot of cleaning cloths hanging on the balcony, and much buckets and mops. I have seen her taking the dogs for their morning constitutional - and she takes two to the spare lot, and leaves the other two tied up inside the fenced parking yard. And then switches the pairs. Those left behind are not amused. I think she would normally let them run inside the parking yard, but they found the garbage dumpster first time out and - well. I mean: it is the dumpster for a resaurant.
So far the noise level is not bad (I mean: the noise level around here is pretty high already with traffic and crazy people screaming at each other in the alley all night), but at bed time there are the "hey" barks of the dogs left behind, and in the evening from after work on are the sounds of parrots saying "who's a pretty boy, then?" or something to each other.
I swear: I bet there are lizards and hamsters in there. :)
And then there was a cat. Cute grey and white cat, gazing out the windows of an apparently emtpy apartment. That went on for about three weeks. Then one evening we saw two budgies in the window - and yellow and a blue stripey one. And then we noticed there was a thing moving in the background. We watched and watched, and it turned out to be a hunormous red parrot with a really big beak. Two days later, we notice someone moving around inside, bringing a lamp and animal perches. It looked like a cat tree, but when next seen it had a great big blue parrot on it, and near it was a regular bird stand with the big red parrot. And then the owner showed up with four dogs on leashes.
Since then we have seen a black cat who is missing one hind leg. I'm taking bets that she has lizards and rodents, as well. We're not actually sure that any human lives there with all the other beings.
It's kinda neat, in a I'm-glad-I-don't-live-there kind of way. We see a lot of cleaning cloths hanging on the balcony, and much buckets and mops. I have seen her taking the dogs for their morning constitutional - and she takes two to the spare lot, and leaves the other two tied up inside the fenced parking yard. And then switches the pairs. Those left behind are not amused. I think she would normally let them run inside the parking yard, but they found the garbage dumpster first time out and - well. I mean: it is the dumpster for a resaurant.
So far the noise level is not bad (I mean: the noise level around here is pretty high already with traffic and crazy people screaming at each other in the alley all night), but at bed time there are the "hey" barks of the dogs left behind, and in the evening from after work on are the sounds of parrots saying "who's a pretty boy, then?" or something to each other.
I swear: I bet there are lizards and hamsters in there. :)
