The last month or so, plenty of turds have been appearing around the front door of my house. Judging by their size, they are dog turds. And so I started feeling rather cross with the dog’s owner. For crying out loud, it is unseemly to let your pet do whatever and wherever it wants. Collecting the turds has become a habit even in Croatia as of late. If only I could see the dog in action. But I just saw a street cat shitting close to my front door. It is about a year old, and it is a female on the small side, but its turds are no less than prodigious. Actually, I was quite amazed seeing them come out of the cat’s puny asshole. Having compared all the turds strewn about the cobblestones, now I am sure of the culprit. Given that it does not have an owner, I will have to teach the cat about street manners all by myself. The only question is how. To the best of my knowledge, finely ground black pepper is a good old trick. Luckily, it does not cost all that much, either. Scattering it around my front door every once in a while is easy enough, as well. In a month or so, the cat will learn to avoid my front door like the plague.