You haven't lived... really.... until you have that event going on right outside your bedroom window at about 3:00 am pretty much every nite. We used to have several strays that just loved that routine. Thank God they have since 'moved on'....lol.
@XenaLee I can relate! Lol, you come up out of your bed like NASA just hit the firing switch.
The front porch brawl? It was between the gray cat across the road who comes to visit me sometimes and a stray I'd never seen. My gray buddy was the intimidator. I said to him, reasonably, "Why are you acting like this? Just stop. Don't do it."
He looked up at me, which gave the other cat the chance to take off running.
The gray cat strolled off across the yard, but he stopped midway, glanced over his shoulder, and gave me the most obvious "eff you" look I've ever seen from human or animal.