TJAnonymous
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What a pretty baby! We have several strays that lurk around our barn. Plenty of barn mice & rats out there! I'd rather have barn cats than snakes, honestly. None are people friendly although I've tried. Here's one that was hiding out in a tree a few days ago. I tried to bribe her/him to come down with hot food but it wouldn't budge. Came down hours later on its own. I saw it this morning hanging around the duck coop and upsetting my ducks. None of the strays have ever tried to attack my chickens as far as I know but I do worry that they will attack baby chicks.How typical! Our spouses only seem to get around to fixing certain annoyances, after we bring up the possibility of paying a professional to do the job.
I need to threaten Mr. Dog with hiring somebody to fix the lights in the kitchen and hallway, and replace the gutter by the back door, then he will pause his YouTube videos long enough to take few hours and do what he is more than capable of doing.
Here's the newest addition to our family:View attachment 3370709
Sarah (about 1 year old) showed up at my horses' barn a couple weeks before I moved my horses to a new barn. She's cuddly and affectionate and has the loudest purr, but can be spicy at being held or confined.
Our small-animal vet is also a horse owner, so she totally understands how we got her: "when you leave a barn, you've gotta pick up one or two barn cats at the same time, right?"
Sarah's been an indoor cat at our house since Thanksgiving, but now that she's had her vaccinations, been spayed and microchipped, she can go outside with our 2-year-old formerly feral orange kitty Pumpkin - it's amazing how well the two of them get along.
It amazes us even more, since we are definitely dog-type people, who've had cats in the distant past but dogs for the past 20 years, and here we are enjoying and appreciating these two kitties so much.
As for the 4 wheeler, DH fixed it in like 10 minutes... Aggravating that I had to threaten to hire someone to get him to do it! Of course he's been wanting me to fix the sweeper for a couple of days now and I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Karma...