Black Cat Considering Halloween
It’s that season, “Snowball” here and his Twin also Black Cat brother, are less than thrilled about Halloween.
The end of October is a time when the fur starts growing quickly into a thick blanket on the barn cats in order to accommodate the coming polar vortexes that sweep over our humble abode each winter. We do see 30 below regularly.
Before you notice he (neutered) isn’t wearing a tag, none of my “Barn Cats” wear collars as they 1: don’t leave the compound much as it is 4 miles to the nearest neighbor and another cat. 2: would instantly get caught in a fence, a hole or otherwise hang themselves on all the wire surrounding a remote Wyoming/Montana ranch. 3: we have all shots and tags current. I’ve had the same 6 cats for 8 years roughly now. We’ve only lost one cat mystereously in 20 years.
Tough Guys: As a group, they have survived incursions into their territory by bobcats (which eat cats), coyotes, mountain lion (which we have spotted just outside our electric deer resistant perimeter fence).
Needless to say, these guys are bad a** tough. Wyoming winters unheated, I do feed but they take care of the mice which without them, would build up to plague proportions with the grain that moves through here. They are well acclimated to this environment and know where all the hiding places are. Each is friendly to a cat to humans. My nephew who is living on ranch, is spoiling them lolol.
Black Cat Considering Halloween
It’s that season, “Snowball” here and his Twin also Black Cat brother, are less than thrilled about Halloween.
The end of October is a time when the fur starts growing quickly into a thick blanket on the barn cats in order to accommodate the coming polar vortexes that sweep over our humble abode each winter. We do see 30 below regularly.
Before you notice he (neutered) isn’t wearing a tag, none of my “Barn Cats” wear collars as they 1: don’t leave the compound much as it is 4 miles to the nearest neighbor and another cat. 2: would instantly get caught in a fence, a hole or otherwise hang themselves on all the wire surrounding a remote Wyoming/Montana ranch. 3: we have all shots and tags current. I’ve had the same 6 cats for 8 years roughly now. We’ve only lost one cat mystereously in 20 years.
Tough Guys: As a group, they have survived incursions into their territory by bobcats (which eat cats), coyotes, mountain lion (which we have spotted just outside our electric deer resistant perimeter fence).
Needless to say, these guys are bad a** tough. Wyoming winters unheated, I do feed but they take care of the mice which without them, would build up to plague proportions with the grain that moves through here. They are well acclimated to this environment and know where all the hiding places are. Each is friendly to a cat to humans. My nephew who is living on ranch, is spoiling them lolol.