Time to get a barn cat

[Susie David]

We are having a nice cooler shift in the weather and being that Tuesday is a day off from her nursing job the bride came out to the barn to see what I was doing this morning.
Not alot going on just organizing a few things and the interruption was welcomed..really welcomed. A light rain danced on the roof setting the mood, so to speak. Just happened to have a blanket stored there for just such a occasion.
No fun on the farm today....she saw a mouse and thoughts of romance quickly changed to a shreak of terror. Guess that it is now time to hire a full time barn cat. Dmc

 

[Tod Dague]

I'd get several.

 

[Nowland Farms]

I'd been thinking of getting a barn cat for several months but never got around to it. One morning, about a month ago, when I went to check on the cows, I heard meowing coming from behing the bales of hay. I called a few times and out came a kittem about 6 or 7 weeks old. Picked it up and it went limp and started it's motor (purring). I was hooked. Went back to the house and got a can of tuna. I check with a couple of the neighbors within a 1/4 mile or so but nobody was missing a kitten, I guess someone donated it to me via the side of the road.

A month later, I still have not named the cat and the cows don't pay it any attention any more when it runs under them. I guess I'll take it to the vet to get it fixed so I'm not raising more cats than cows.

 

[Carlos D.]

I have two cat stories We lived in the city for a few years Kids wanted a cat so we got kitten paid 60.00 to have it fixed-it ran across the road and got run over--when we came to the farm daughter wanted another cat--Wife says only a black cat????(cats a cat---to me) anyway called my nieghbour over and we castrated him in a stove pipe that was 12 years ago-for three years that cat never came near me -and that was just fine. actually he was my daughters cat (elly mae clampet) so for years he was always howling for grub or water first thing in the morning.I prayed he'd die. well a while ago he went missing for 3 days I can never tell anyone here but I kind of missed him (must be something like that stockholme syndrome)

years ago I had a lot of pigs -Went to a seminar and this vet was speaking ,said that cats were the worst thing in the farrowing barn --full of disease, better to control rats and mice with poison So being young and vunerable I came home and got rid of the cats ---6 months later I had rats and more rats I quess they didn't know they were suppose to die on the poison Finally an old nieghbour said you better take this old cat so I did --first day after old cat came I found 6 rat tails on the floor --and one pretty full cat within 2 months what was left of the rats left that barn and moved into the house I found out afterwards that rats will move up to 6 miles in a night I poisoned them in the house --But I never want to live with them critters again I have a lot of respect for a good barn cat now. the problem I have is elly mae brings kittens to the deck on the house and feeds them I go outside in the morning to these howling kittens that will never be hunters (And god I hate that ) Another thing I find is that city people drop off cats in the country--these cats just cant fend for themselves

carl

 

[CUZ]

Carlos said, " called my nieghbour over and we castrated him in a stove pipe" - I don't want to be your neighbor.

Cuz

 

[Carlos D.]

Carlos said, " called my nieghbour over and we castrated him in a stove pipe" - I don't want to be your neighbor.

Cuz

well the alternative was spend sixty bucks and have him get run over---Actually my nieghbour and I have quiet a lot of expeience --we've done horses, cattle, pigs, sheep. donkeys dogs.and of course cats;--we're thinking about chickens we'll let you know how that goes

carl

 

[Susie David]

We have decided to get a farm savy barn cat. Better be real quick and stealthy...have three great horned owls that hunt the place and the neighbor wonders why she can't keep a cat around for more than a few weeks. DMc

 

[CUZ]

Carlos,
I misread your statement. I thought you and the wife castrated your neighbor after capturing him in a stove pipe. Just being silly please excuse my lame attempt at humor.

Cuz

 

[Carlos D.]

Carlos,
I misread your statement. I thought you and the wife castrated your neighbor after capturing him in a stove pipe. Just being silly please excuse my lame attempt at humor.

Cuz

Believe me if we had ---he'd be a lot richer today--women, booze ,and castrateing; have just about done him in.Now days he doesnt have a women living with him.But boy those old boys past 50 who live by themselves sure get into some wierd thinking----I told him a while ago he should mabey get a second opinion on some of his thinking

carl

 

[J. T.]

We are having a nice cooler shift in the weather and being that Tuesday is a day off from her nursing job the bride came out to the barn to see what I was doing this morning.
Not alot going on just organizing a few things and the interruption was welcomed..really welcomed. A light rain danced on the roof setting the mood, so to speak. Just happened to have a blanket stored there for just such a occasion.
No fun on the farm today....she saw a mouse and thoughts of romance quickly changed to a shreak of terror. Guess that it is now time to hire a full time barn cat. Dmc

A good ol' tough, gritty, Rat Terrier is hard to beat!