fella 🐈?⬛

With big feet too. He might grow into a huge kitty

at this point in time that that little fella is yours.

and now you have been adopted - again.

Been there, done that, it's always an honor to be adopted

Thank you for taking care of him and his uncle.

And he looks inquisitive and intelligent.
Yep, I'd say he's a keeper!

Start a fund drive for his shots & neutering, and I'll certainly pitch in.

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Awwww. so cute.

Looks like he needs to knead!

(sorry I had to )

My friend did not have a barn cat. One day a tabby shows up looking for a handout. Husband says to the cat that if it wants to stay it has to start catching mice. Cat disappears and returns 30 minutes later with a mouse. 3 weeks later she gives birth to 4 kittens. Mama gets to stay and all 4 kittens have new homes.

People regularly drop off cats which also regularly aren't ready for a feral existence. Some people do this thinking cat/mousers are always welcome around a farm, which on some farms might be true.

Not true for me. I've learned dumped cats bring legal and financial obligations if one "gets involved."

So, I don't intervene in what over 30--sh years is now a recognizably never ending traffic of unwanted/problem cats.

For me I see them 1000 feet from the house or garden and note their appearance as "another" cat. Then a week or three later I see them failing or find them flattened on the hard road.

I've lost track of how many, "barn cats," we have now. Most of them hang out around the front porch, where Mr. Bayard built them a palatial cedar cat house. Luckily, I vaccinate everybody on the farm myself.

Several years ago, we hauled everybody to a discount community spay/neuter clinic. I think it was 15 then? The kitties that have trickled in since have been one at a time, so affordable.

Actually, Thomas is the first newbie we've had in quite a long time.

really.

Look how long they are!

You're lucky he chose you.

Glad he found you, Bayard!

I couldn't dissuade him from following me back to the house today. Some of the porch kitties touched his nose. The dogs chased him, which is not a bad thing, as long as they don't hurt him. I was watching. He arched his back and made tiny hisses--at 2 Great Pyrenees.

Its not safe for him to be going back and forth. We have coyotes, foxes, hawks, owls. I tried to talk a friend into taking him, but her husband, (the cat lover,) doesn't want to risk another one dying. Eventually.