This is Spot, a male cat in our neighborhood who was mean to the other cats. He used to challenge a yellow male, whom we named "Ts'hovi", even though Ts'hovi didn't seem to want to fight at all. He also chased a beautiful and sweet female, whom we named "Blackie". In fact, all the other cats seemed nervous when Spot was around. Spot was friendly to people, but I kept chasing him away because of the way he treated the other cats. Both Blackie and Ts'hovi sometimes missed the morning feedings because they were afraid of Spot.
We called our vet, Roi, who is also the city vet. He said he would lend us a trap so that we could relocate Spot. On Thursday, I picked the trap up, and on Friday morning, David managed to catch Spot in it.
He remained in the trap (actually a cage) on our porch until I finished teaching for the day. Then we loaded him and the cage into the back seat of our car, drove down the hill, passed through Rosh Pinna, continued on across the Jordan River, drove up the other side of the narrow river valley, turned right on a road towards the south, and then turned left on a narrow side road. A little ways down this road, we stopped, took the cage out of the car, and let Spot out to run away across the empty field. He seemed glad to be out of the cage and away from us. I don't know what has happened or will happen to him, but he has at least a chance of making a new life for himself, and he will definitely not be returning to bother the other cats.
We felt a little sad for him, because, in many ways, he is a nice cat, at least to people. But we knew that he needed to be removed from this area.
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