Kats & Kits: Around and About Kats and Kits

The summer of 2006 is proving to be notable for two things, the start of the Kats and Kit’s blog of course, and the hot dry weather. Everywhere is beginning to look very parched, the unharvested wheat is a dusty shade of caramel, and a water shortage is a real possibility. Here at the cat sanctuary we are doing our best to save water by reusing it on the garden. The flower tubs and borders look so beautiful that it would very sad if they died through lack of water. The cats of course are all quite happy, sleeping all day and coming out in the cool of the evening to watch the mice, hedgehogs and the bats swooping above their heads.

Though our setting sounds completely rural and in many ways it is, we are situated in Wiltshire on the edge of Salisbury Plain and are often aware of the sounds of guns and aircraft as this vast area of chalk down land is used as a military training ground. Because of its inaccessibility to the public it is a rich wildlife habitat and National Nature Reserve. It's other claim to fame is, of course, the ancient World Heritage Site at Stonehenge as well as the much larger cirlce at Avebury, the white horse hill carvings and numerous iron age features such as Silbury Hill and burial barrows.

Within thirty miles we have the beautiful cathedral city of Salisbury, cosmopolitan Bath, and the once industrial but now hi-tech Swindon, associated with The Great Western Railway of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and of course last but not least Longleat House and its famous Safari Park with slightly larger cats than the ones that live with us.

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