![]() ![]() I made them a little blanket nest and set out some food. Their mama had apparently decided she needed some help and had brought them to us. I got a flashlight, peeked into the darkness, and sure enough, was greeted by two sweet and very small faces. “One more kitten isn’t so bad,” I decided.įast-forward a few more weeks, and late last night I once again heard the tiny mewling, except it wasn’t under the writing shack, but just outside our sliding glass door. The tiny voice was answered by a loud, confident meow. Then a few weeks later I heard a tiny, mewling voice in the crawl space under my writing shack. Still, we thought we had the situation more or less under control until we discovered a mama cat who’d had given birth up in the rafters of the shop, but couldn’t figure out how to get the half-grown babies down. Even a few of the friendly ones are just too darn smart and have thwarted our attempts at capture. They prefer to hide from humans, haunting the shadowed corners of outbuildings and the fields beyond our yard. This works great with cats we can catch, but not so great with cats we can’t, and while many of the cats here are quite friendly, we have several that we rarely see during daylight hours. Luckily, we’ve been able to access a wonderful program with low-cost spay and neuter clinics at a vet one town over. Cat populationĬonsequently, over the last year, we’ve been trying to decrease the barn cat population here on the ranch. A porch full of friendly barn cats trying to rush the sliding glass door every time someone exited or entered was the official bridge too far. Sadly, cat ranching is actually a very expensive habit, and even my cat love has limits - a limit that we officially reached last summer when a barn cat coup occurred and several ousted barn cats became porch cats in self-defense. In fact, we once had a mother cat with a litter of kittens bring her babies back to our barn, carrying them across miles of open range when we tried to rehome her to a neighbor. ![]() I love cats and cats love me, and our ever-growing barn cat population has been evidence of this. It’s too bad cat ranching isn’t a lucrative business model. ![]()
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