What affects us affects cats
What are barn cat good for? They are good for keeping down the rodent population either by a deterrence or by hunting them and being companions to livestock or domesticated animals such as horses. Barn cats need to be cared for however.
I love barn cats. It seems natural to me. They live in that middle ground between domestication, living in the polished home, and a wild cat existence outside. The modern day barn cat is as close as we can get to the original domestic cats of over 9,000 years ago. The picture below shows …
My understanding of the phrase ‘barn cat’ is that the cat lives in a barn, usually on a farm. Not all farm cats live in barns which is why I started with the meaning of ‘barn cat’. Starting with that premise helps to formulate an answer to the question. A true barn cat should …
https://youtu.be/XunFCgs7rj8 Three newborn kittens were found in an Indiana barn. One of them died. The other two you see in the video. There is a lot of speculation about these kittens. Some articles discuss what sort of breed these cats are which is a fallacy. These newborn cats might be wild cats in which …
This is a rare disease, which is why I have not heard of it until today. It is a very serious, almost always fatal, viral infection, which can kill a cat very quickly without the usual symptoms. It would seem that the cats most likely to catch this disease would be farm cats because …
By Nat Love my barn cats! They control the mice and voles here on the farm but once or twice a year they have a nasty encounter with a skunk or a porcupine. I can deal with that but it is the only time I wish they weren’t so ‘tough’. We have very good …
Robin looks like a purebred mix. Howard, the person who cares for these fine looking cats, asked if Robin was a Turkish Angora mix. You can’t tell except to say that he is a very attractive cat that, for me, looks more like a Norwegian Forest Cat mix because of the shape of his …
