If I go into my garden now, and pull up all the weeds, the garden will look good for a bit, and the nutrients they were stealing from other plants will be spread out amongst the remaining plants.
However, there are likely some smaller weeds just under the surface, so within a few weeks, there'll be some weeds again, and they'll begin taking nutrition away from all the other plants. A year from now, there'll be just as many weeds as before, and they'll have strangled and starved many of the other plants in the garden.
It's generally accepted that there's two ways to deal with such weeds.
Regular maintenance. You need to cull all the weeds, every week, to keep on top of them. Eventually this will weaken the roots, rhizomes and seeds and then there'll be fewer weeds. Over time there'll be fewer weeds to remove each week, but you must never stop maintaining, or else they'll take over as before.
Preventative measures. Look at the circumstances that cause weeds to form, and make structural changes to stop this. This may include things such as ground-cover plants, which protect the soil from weed growth, but store and then distribute their nutrients back into the soil. It can also include things like organising, supporting and strengthening your other plants, using things such as companion planting (where two plants take and release opposing nutrients, both working together and feeding each other to become stronger). When the garden is unified and stronger and working harmoniously, there are fewer opportunities for weeds to thrive.
It's best to take both approaches simultaneously.
Oh, sorry, I accidentally posted this gardening tip in a comment about billionaires!
Hahaha - I'm working with a Hullian tomorrow. The accent has never struck me as sexy previously, but I'll make sure to listen out for it's sexy undertones :)
Ha, might be a bit harder to work out - but good to have a fully grown cat photo as comparison.
Looking at your "before and after" photos, and based on what my own cats looked like at 3, 4 ,5 ,6 months, I'd say your guess of 4 months isn't far off. 4 or 5 months?
You're thinking she's less than a year - is she full size yet? If not measure and weigh her now. When she reaches her adult size/weight, work backwards from that.
It depends on the cat, but generally they grow quickly for six months, then slowly for six months, then they stay at that size, but bulk out a bit for 6 months.
Nobody has a problem with Americans, Australians, New Zealanders etc keeping their own cats indoors - and in fact would likely support it in areas where they're not a native species, or you've got dangers like those you outlined - the same as it's supported in areas here in conservation areas, or areas with rare birds nesting.
The issue is the aggressive, abusive behaviour of those hijacking every thread which has a cat in someone's garden, and insisting everyone else does the same in countries where cats have free-roamed and been part of the native ecosytem for a few thousand years.
Do we need a separate "Non-American Cats" community, so non-American people can ask cat questions without half the thread being derailed by all this indoor/outdoor argument?
Isn't 17-18ibs about 8-9kg e.g. two normal cats?
What kind of giant cat-monster is he?