Black cat in a hay barn

[Tiddlypom]

Can you see the cat?



Me neither.

But yesterday I went into the hay barn and rolled down one of the top bales to use. Oops, it will have at least frightened the cat and may have caught it a glancing blow. Cat was not amused, but still slept in the barn again last night. It understandably bears me a grudge, though. This was it hissing at me this morning as I checked very carefully for a feline presence before fetching more hay.



It’s not ours, but I think I know where it lives. I love cats, and have always enjoyed seeing this one prowling about across our fields. I don’t know if it is normally friendly, but I had best assume that it will never want to be friends with me after the tumbling bale incident .

 

[Pippity]

If it's any consolation, I once stuffed a stable cat into a haynet, and the cat's forgiven me! And he still sleeps like this...

 

[Asha]

Oooh, love a black cat. bet hes a proper feral then. Will do you no end of favours in there.

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Spread Eagle yourself on the floor, seek forgiveness from Bastet and bring lots of food (maybe some sardines in tomato sauce or some cooked chicken) as offerings and I'm sure that cat will accept your apology.

 

[Meowy Catkin]

If it's any consolation, I once stuffed a stable cat into a haynet, and the cat's forgiven me! And he still sleeps like this...

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LOL! That's so funny!

 

[Asha]

Bob , enjoys his naps in the haylage ??

 

[Tiddlypom]

If it's any consolation, I once stuffed a stable cat into a haynet, and the cat's forgiven me! And he still sleeps like this...

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That is absolutely epic, and reading it has caused me to snort my coffee over my iPad !!

 

[Tiddlypom]

Spread Eagle yourself on the floor, seek forgiveness from Bastet and bring lots of food (maybe some sardines in tomato sauce or some cooked chicken) as offerings and I'm sure that cat will accept your apology.

I like this idea, but I’m afraid that might attract the JRT to the cat cave/hay barn. Think moggy would pack his/her bags altogether if that happened!

 

[Sussexbythesea]

If it's any consolation, I once stuffed a stable cat into a haynet, and the cat's forgiven me! And he still sleeps like this...

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We once weighed our yard cat “Moley” or “Mo Mo” in a hay net so we knew what wormer to buy him ?. Luckily he forgave us.

In my car this morning whilst unloading feed

He just turned up one day. We traced the owner and she took him back but he just kept coming back and it’s a dangerous journey. In the end the cattleman who’s sadly since died took him on. We now look after him between us and his widow.

 

[PurBee]

This black cat as a youngish kitten just turned up at our remote place....after day 3 i just had to feed the skinny thing...yet unlike the other ferels i’ve ended up with, he was super friendly from the start! So friendly he came in and laid with the dogs on their bed...who were so shocked by his audacity, did nothing and accepted him!

(purbee pic neck torsion time! ?)

 

[clairefeekerry1]

Waiting for emergency vet so got myself a bacon sandwich, turned my back and look!

 

[Peregrine Falcon]

Naughty cat! Hope all turns out ok with vet.

 

[clairefeekerry1]

Naughty cat! Hope all turns out ok with vet.

This was a few weeks ago but thanks all turned out okay in the end

 

[Tiddlypom]

Cat is still very cross with me today. Plenty of hissing and cat swearing going on when I dared to set foot in the hay barn. Still not sure of its sex, but it’s got pronounced jowls, so I presume that it’s a Tom.


Plus the swallows are back, which is lovely except that they are cursing me every time I go into the stables.

I am feeling animal pecked in my own stable yard .

 

[DirectorFury]

Ooh, that’s an angry face!
Elderly Siamese has started biting us if we’re not in bed by midnight, staying up late is not allowed under her rule ?.

 

[Shilasdair]

There are similar hay sprites in my stack of hay - small black ones.

I was terrified I would wall them into their hay bale fortress when I had more delivered, so had to build a passageway into their bedchamber...

 

[PurBee]

Was like the Godfather scene yesterday morning when i go to sit at my desk and find wild black cat had left me a mouse head on the pillow of my chair!

Last night i spot him eating a mouse outside, and saw he had another dead whole one strewn beside him as seconds. How he’s catching 2 at a time i’ll never know!...although he climbs trees and kills squirrels so perhaps mice are ‘easy prey’ for him now. Never known such a adept predator cat!

Pic below is of my first wild rescue...he was 20 yrs old in that pic taken last spring...i wondered in and found him asleep on a plate he’d eaten yogurt from! He died last summer, was an excellent ratter in his day...known as Sabre...who ironically had teeth issues his whole life and ended up with 3 big fangs remaining!

 

[Sussexbythesea]

Was like the Godfather scene yesterday morning when i go to sit at my desk and find wild black cat had left me a mouse head on the pillow of my chair!

Last night i spot him eating a mouse outside, and saw he had another dead whole one strewn beside him as seconds. How he’s catching 2 at a time i’ll never know!...although he climbs trees and kills squirrels so perhaps mice are ‘easy prey’ for him now. Never known such a adept predator cat!

Pic below is of my first wild rescue...he was 20 yrs old in that pic taken last spring...i wondered in and found him asleep on a plate he’d eaten yogurt from! He died last summer, was an excellent ratter in his day...known as Sabre...who ironically had teeth issues his whole life and ended up with 3 big fangs remaining!

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I’ll raise you three mice, a bloody hallway and a pile of sick ? ?

I woke up the other day to find a dismembered mouse in my bedroom, a pile of cat food sick on the landing, a blood spatter scene from CSI and two dead baby mice on my rug! This is my own cat not the yard one.

Smug cat

Evidence

 

[PurBee]

I’ll raise you three mice, a bloody hallway and a pile of sick ? ?

I woke up the other day to find a dismembered mouse in my bedroom, a pile of cat food sick on the landing, a blood spatter scene from CSI and two dead baby mice on my rug! This is my own cat not the yard one.

Smug cat

Evidence

?? yours went for the whole nest!! Just couldnt quite manage to keep it down tho’..bless him! ?

 

[Lois Lame]

I’ll raise you three mice, a bloody hallway and a pile of sick ? ?

I woke up the other day to find a dismembered mouse in my bedroom, a pile of cat food sick on the landing, a blood spatter scene from CSI and two dead baby mice on my rug! This is my own cat not the yard one.

Smug cat

Evidence

My banana cake for morning tea tastes funny.

 

[BeckyFlowers]

I’ll raise you three mice, a bloody hallway and a pile of sick ? ?

I woke up the other day to find a dismembered mouse in my bedroom, a pile of cat food sick on the landing, a blood spatter scene from CSI and two dead baby mice on my rug! This is my own cat not the yard one.

Smug cat

Evidence

Look at the amount of smug on that cat's face

 

[Tiddlypom]

And just when I thought it was safe to go back in the water...

Nearly got my bent over back raked by claws yesterday! Black cat must have moved elsewhere for a few weeks as I hadn’t seen him, and so I had stopped checking so carefully to see if it was safe to fetch hay.


I’m actually rather pleased to see him back, as I was rather worried that he may have come to some harm. The feeling is clearly not mutual, though!

I’ll pop out in a bit and put a water bowl in there for him.

 

[Rumtytum]

You and he have clearly ‘bonded’ ?

 

[Tiddlypom]

You and he have clearly ‘bonded’ ?

Haha!

 

[BeckyFlowers]

What a fearsome beast!!!

 

[Cloball]

I’ll raise you three mice, a bloody hallway and a pile of sick ? ?

Evidence

Can I raise you 3 shrews one alive and one mouse also alive (alive ones rescued from the kitchen ) and two broken eggs. OH stood on one dead mouse in his slippers. Not even our cat ... Just likes to release wildlife into our kitchen if I leave the door open. butter wouldn't melt!

 

[Rumtytum]

That cat

Can I raise you 3 shrews one alive and one mouse also alive (alive ones rescued from the kitchen ) and two broken eggs. OH stood on one dead mouse in his slippers. Not even our cat ... Just likes to release wildlife into our kitchen if I leave the door open. View attachment 48502butter wouldn't melt!

That cat is saying ‘Don’t believe a word she’s written...’

 

[Trouper]

Wait for the headless rabbits in the bedroom ...........!

 

[Tiddlypom]

We hadn’t seen the black cat for a few months, and I feared that he might have come to a bad end.

He’s back .

A black cat at night in a hay barn with a solar powered pir activated light is easier to see .

He’s no more pleased to see me than he was earlier in the year, though!

 

[FinnishLapphund]