Black cat in a hay barn

Black cats get all the luck! A friend of ours bought a very rural wooden house a couple of years ago and inherited with it a wild and wary black cat. This little cat now rules the roost, sleeps on his bed and has put him off buying a new dog, which had been the plan. Beware, it is only a few short steps from barn to bedroom for your cat!
 
My BCs are outside cats! I‘m not a ? person and the ? ? ? are not impressed when they stroll by or go across the yard. The laziest dog had the most exercise she’s had in months last week when she spotted one and felt it necessary to mark the boundaries ? ?
 
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My BCs are outside cats! I‘m not a ? person and the ? ? ? are not impressed when they stroll by or go across the yard. The laziest dog had the most exercise she’s had in months last week when she spotted one and felt it necessary to mark the boundaries ? ?
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I’ve always taught my dogs that chasing or being aggressive in any way with cats is not acceptable.
 
This is our yard cat Moley. He moved in about 9 years ago. His owner was traced and she took him home but he kept coming back. The cattleman used to look after him but he sadly died about 4 years ago. He now lives in the heated tearoom mainly during the winter. I feed, worm and de-flea him. He’s become more soppy as he’s got older.

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He comes for walks with my dog around the farm and in the summer he comes out poo-picking.
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SussexbytheXmasTree said:
This is our yard cat Moley. He moved in about 9 years ago. His owner was traced and she took him home but he kept coming back. The cattleman used to look after him but he sadly died about 4 years ago. He now lives in the heated tearoom mainly during the winter. I feed, worm and de-flea him. He’s become more soppy as he’s got older.

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He comes for walks with my dog around the farm and in the summer he comes out poo-picking.
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Love his curvaceous tum ?
 
Loving the black cat photos, this is my black cat ninja warrier, I found her under a hedge whilst out riding, she heard me talking and started screaming for help. I’ve never had a cat before, I don’t like cats, but she’s got me and my husband wrapped around her fingers. I have 4 gsds and she just struts her stuff around the farm yard.
 

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Aw. Lovely updates. Just read thread for the first time and it's made my heart sing, other than the sticking a cat in the haynet, that just made me laugh, a lot ??

About ten years ago I got a call from D1 to say there was a skinny kitten that was so hungry she was eating D1's Wagon Wheel. I went to get them.

We put up posters and had her scanned but no takers, so she stayed. Somehow she got all the dogs then and now under control, even the latest (a JRTx) has more sense than to argue with her.

The poor wee thing looked like a cut and shut case as her head and body didn't quite match up. She was also petrified of doorways and hated being put outside - I think she thought she wouldn't get back in. Thankfully never needed the vet as even after all this time she's difficult to handle. She'll be picked up so long as held firmly and talked to, though she'd rather you didn't bother really thank you, and she'll accept a head rub when she's in the mood. She's in no way a mouser though sleeps in the barn on warm nights. I swear the mice just think she's a mutant sized one of them ??
 
Black cat is settling in to yard life very well.

Is confident around the horses o_O

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Main problem is her habit of entwining herself around my feet - she’s tripped me up twice and I’ve trodden on her three times, mostly after dark. I’m hoping that she’ll learn to keep a bit more distance.

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She’s had her first dose of Drontal wormer, I’m sure that was much needed.

Still not sure how it’s going to work with the JRT, though, who remains horrified. Some sort of controlled meet up in which the cat does not run away but makes it clear that she will brook no nonsense would be ideal. JRT remains in the garden glaring through the fence. She is barking less, though. This dog may have lived with a cat in an earlier life.

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So what’s her name TP? Apart from “arghgetoutoftheway” ?.
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Haha, arghgetoutoftheway is rather apt!

Still currently calling her the Black Cat. She’s been seen around here for a few years now, and that’s what we’ve always known her as.

This pic is from August, well before I realised that she was tame. She’s watching out for baby bunnies on the other side of the fence - she’s a natural rabbiter.

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The horses have accepted her well after some initial reservations, but she needs to learn not to block the stable doorway when the IDx is coming in for her breakfast! Could get messy...
 
Oh ....my black cats, also called black cat ‘friendly’ and black cat ‘angry’ are enjoying themselves causing chaos, they will be approx a year old in March. Friendly is getting very good at walking just where you want to go on the ice. They also enjoy hanging off the wiring for the solar lights as well as climbing out the stable roof in their search for pigeons. Sadly some pigeons still in residence but the numbers are reduced. Have taken to feeding them out of the way before l feed the nags so l can get on without risk of a major trip/fall ? They still wind up the dogs in the morning ?
 
Hmmm. Black cat is now sporting quite a round tum. I noticed it particularly last night when I picked her up to remove her from the feed room before locking up last night.

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I hope that this is because she is feeling the benefit of her Drontal wormer, and not for any other reason. Female, and I’ve no idea if she’s been spayed or not...

In normal times, I’d pop her along to the local vets for a health check, but I’d rather not currently (we are shielding). Just keep a close eye and keep on feeding her, I think.
 
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Hmmm. Black cat is now sporting quite a round tum. I noticed it particularly last night when I picked her up to remove her from the feed room before locking up last night.

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I hope that this is because she is feeling the benefit of her Drontal wormer, and not for any other reason. Female, and I’ve no idea if she’s been spayed or not...

In normal times, I’d pop her along to the local vets for a health check, but I’d rather not currently (we are shielding). Just keep a close eye and keep on feeding her, I think.
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I call that curvaceous!
When looked at from the side does she have an ‘undercarriage’? If yes, it’s a sign she’s been neutered ?.
 
Love this thread! Our yard black cat, also named Black Cat, turned up about 5 years ago and moved in.
He started off very unfriendly, sneaking into the yard and stealing the other cats food and hissing if you so much as looked at him. We left him some food out so he didn't steal from the other cats and overnight he turned into the friendliest, sweetest cat.
He has no horse sense - also rubs up against the horses legs, tries to help me lunge and expects them to get out of his way :eek:
We took him to the vets after he had been around a few months, he was neutered but not chipped - as there are no close houses and he had moved in we chipped him to us.

Our yard cats bulk up and put on a lot of weight in the winter in a way that house cats don't, so hopefully the weight gain is just down to that! 23.jpg
 
Asha, that’s a really kind offer, thank you :). We’ve been to the vets twice already in lockdown #3 after the JRT got chomped by a lab :rolleyes:, but we’re trying to minimise outings.

I’ve been on t’internet, and apparently I needed to look for enlarged or swollen nipples. I’ve just been outside to check, and they seem to me to be normal sized, though she’s so fluffy on her tum that I only checked them by feel. So I’ll just keep an eye on her for now, but thank you very much for the offer.

Good thinking, too, that her tum may just be full of rabbit. Or indeed full of all this cat food that she keeps demanding! She’s finishing off the last of the Go Cat which I got as a stop gap when I first started to feed her, it’s probably full of rubbish, and then it’s onto Orijen.

Rumptytum, she does have a droopy belly.

ETA The stables make good giant cat litter trays, apparently. Normally the neds live out overnight, but they were in two nights ago courtesy of Storm Christoph. Black cat must have kept her legs crossed but burst in to relieve herself as soon as I opened the stable door to give the neds breakfast. Just as well that they have accepted her...

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My black cats are looking quite rotund atm. They were spayed a couple of months ago courtesy of CPL. They demand food but aren’t gobbling it up very quickly just now. We think there huge winter coats make them look very fat! Friendly cat is partial to a bit of mash but Angry cat tends to keep out of the way choosing to sit and glower at anyone who attempts to get near.
 
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