[john70t]

Originally Posted by john70t

Today I heard several bouts of heavy thumping like someone banging hard on my metal door, with loud screeching.

Neighborhood cat had gone after my 17lb wheezy old boy under the deck.
Middle of the day. How bold.
They had a very big quick noisy vertical fight.

The outside interloper was hesitant to be shooed off.
Did not give a damn about me.
He stopped short a few times, and then sat down with a serious "I'm gonna come back and get you" look on the drive.
He was looking for serious trouble. Didn't even lick his lips in frustration.

I finally got him running with my loud flip flops to let him know not to come back.
Cats. Ugh.

(edited: to make more sense)
Some random cat was trying hard to hurt my boy, middle of the day.