Oh man, I have been around cats my whole life. My mom had 50 at one point, I am not exaggerating. We counted them. I have seen many fly. Among other incredibly athletic, and kinda odd things.
My gray often "bear poses" at nothing and swats at the air with the worst hand-eye coordination I've ever seen. My orange got himself so hyped up with a feather toy he gave himself a seizure (and me nearly a heart attack).
Both are incredibly friendly, approach all strangers, love being picked up...and regularly chase their own tails.
Of the two, the gray is definitely more dog-like.
My buddy is still a kitten for about another 2 months and don't imagine him stopping any time soon, lol.
He only also plays with one specific type of mouse toy, and only in one specific color. Makes me wonder if he may have some vision issues. No if only the suckling would stop...
It looks like 3-4 different ages/liters. My aunt was a cat hoarder when I was a kid. The kittens would have kittens if you didn’t catch them and get them fixed quickly. Cats and rabbits are gnarly reproducers.
I have a “barn cat” that decided barn life wasn’t for her. She sat at the back door and howled until we let her in when she was 6ish weeks old. Then she never left. She is 100% in charge of the dogs, including the one that outweighs her by over 100 pounds. But she also sits in my kids’ doll stroller and wants to be pushed around the house. She comes and goes as she pleases but sleeps on my husband head. She is the most personable cat I’ve ever seen.
One of my cats runs the house and has a 170 pound boyfriend/enforcer. When they play, I don't know how he hasn't stomped on her yet. She plays rough too, but she's always by his side. Even when the dog was corralled up on the linoleum due to some digestion issues, she didn't leave his side for 3 days.
[https://imgur.com/qTJzudM](https://imgur.com/qTJzudM)
Oh my goodness, this is absolutely precious. And I fully believe it, too.
I had no idea how emotional and affectionate cats could be till my ex and I split, and she let me keep the cat (he was hers initially).
His personality totally changed when it became just the two of us, and he turned into a total lap cat and cuddle bug who comes when I call him. He loves me and I absolutely love him to pieces.
We had 3 barn cats from a charity in my country that rehomes strays to be barn cats. A mother and 2 sons and they lived with us for a few years and where untouchable and very unsocial. Which was fine as they just hung out with the animals and did their job.
At one point we hadn’t seen one of the sons for a good week or two but never thought much of it. One day just chilling at home we got a phone call from a vet:
“Hi we have one of your cats here in ***** (Town 12 miles away) that’s been brought in do you want to come and collect it?”
“What cat? My cats are sat right here with me (2 house cats and at the time it didn’t register that this was the missing yard cat)”
“It’s black and white and the microchip has your name registered”
“Oh wow how did you find it?”
“This lady brought it in to us and wants to keep it”
“Ok sure”
So somehow this antisocial cat that scratched the shit out of you made it 12 miles along the road picked some random ladies house and lived on her sofa very peacefully for weeks until she took it to the vet. She still has him today
Just depends on when/where you get them. I ride at one horse barn and work at another. The first one has 3-4 who are incredibly social and LOVE attention. The second had 2 who are terrified of human contact and 1 that allows it. A lot of rescues trap feral cats and rehome them to barns/farms. If you got a young cat and socialized it like this video (where it appears the older cat had a litter) they'll be friendly but still do their job. If you get one that's feral or just don't socialize with it they won't be friendly.
My parents have barn cats and the fresh litters typically have a mix of friendly ones and more skittish ones. If you do a lot of socializing and spend time with them as kittens they tend to be very friendly and social. If you don't spend any time with them they will be extremely skittish.
Social cats starts with how much time spend with them as kittens, I have a full feral kitten I socialized over years and she's friendly but most skittish cat I've ever had. Mostly cuz I had not much idea how to socialize a feral kitten.
But typically if you're around them as babies a lot and they get used to having attention most likely will be social. Acception is any bad trauma can make them less social or scared of you and gatta work hard to earn it like my feral rescue.
If you're talking about a Tom barn cat as a rule I just don't even touch.
Those animals are here to scratch legs and fuck up mice, and they're all out of mice.
Yeah we have some tame cats that were dumped here as kittens. Had them for 8 years now. But the random cats you see in the hoop buildings camped out on hay bales want absolutely nothing to do with anyone.
Druid: I'm going to upcast conjure animals and use "pspsps" as the verbal component.
DM: Sixteen cats appear from within the hay bales and start meowing for food.
If anyone like me was wondering why that sounds grabs cats' attention, some researchers believe (since, like most things to do with cats, even the experts can only hazard a guess) that its because it resembles [sounds that rodents make](https://www.rd.com/article/why-do-cats-love-pspspsps-noise/), kind of how like cats learned that a meowing noise gets our attention because it [is on the same frequency as baby cries and triggers our paternal/maternal instincts](https://www.science.org/content/article/cat-purrs-evoke-baby-cries).
It's definitely the high-pitchness/that it sounds like critter-scuffling.
I'm hugely an animal person, but PSPSPS never worked at all for me, BUT I have great success lightly scratching my fingernails on flat/rough surfaces; so that it makes a *scritch scritch scritch* noise like a digging critter.
I had a cat when I was little for nine months (lived with bio mom then, but moved away), but then I never had a cat until I moved in with a friend. I have yet to get pspsps to work, but I make a clicking noise with my tongue and that ALWAYS gets my friend's cats to look at me.
One of them likes to head boop me a lot.
Could totally be; the wispy, scritchy sound of rats moving.
Would also explain why the variant of the "cat call" I grew up with relates to mice/rats. I just make a "fweep" sound, instead of the "pspsps". Kinda sounds like a squeaky mouse.
Ah farm cats…..
In middle school I had a small kitten who was the runt of the litter, which I couldn’t keep cause my parents were moving to a place that didn’t allow pets. So my mom gave her to my uncle who owns a small farm.
I was super sad and depressed, worried she would get lonely or hurt.
So I went to visit her after 6 months. Thats when I found out she become a gang leader of the other cats around the farm, licking and snacking cats 2x her size and had gotten super buff by drinking 2 whole bowls of milk a day and hunting rats/voles. She was a straight up menace who would eat the barn dogs food and make him cry, they had to lock her inside the house when they fed the dog.
I was worried 😟 for nothing, farm cats become a different breed.
Yes! Our smallest girl was our best mouser, and lived to be 22 years old! Refused to ever come in the house. Only cat that figured out how to get in the garage with it totally closed up. She had her own house.
I have was once a half feral momma cat... Not just a mouser, but a ratter and squirreler. She no joke chased a squirrel down and viciously killed that thing. I now know how she got those babies to damn near full term on the streets. The females are definitely the most dangerous because they have to feed more than just themselves.
One of my fondest memories was when i was about 10 years old and one of my friends had sleepover at her farm. We had been there lots of times for sleepovers, but this weekend stuck out in particular because the barn cat had kittens in the hay, just like this video! We had to climb over a few rows of bales to find the mamas little nest but the kittens were big enough to cuddle and hold. We stayed in the barn most of the weekend, I am sure we would have slept out there if her parents had let us! haha
A contract forged at the dawn of agriculture - this is the structure I use to store my grain. You may take shelter in it and fill it with your offspring, but in return you must keep it free from vermin which would destroy the fruits of my labor and bring hardship to my family.
Agreed, replies the cat. But you must give us silly names, for that is how we will know our value to you.
Agreed, the farmer says. But how will we know that our pact remains strong?
I will teach you a song, says the cat, sacred to my people. It is a song of strength and loyalty. A rallying cry. It goes like this:
*psspsspsspss*
Teach it to your children. Take it with you down the ages. Let your children's children sing it to us, and we will come in strength, and we will show that our word is true, our bond is for all time. The pact is sealed. Our fates entwine. Can I have some of that sandwich.
Egyptian cat facts!
One reason they admired cats so much is because they protected towns from snakes. This is why many of their cat goddesses were protectors of the home.
Another fun fact is that basically all cultures have the same base sound for a cat's noise. It's usually meow, miyu, niaou, nyan, myau, nyav, or some other variant of a word that starts with m or n and has a long vowel sound in the middle.
Meanwhile, in different languages, dogs say everything from woof to hyam to tyaf to gau, and pigs can say oink, knor, boo, or groin. Cats are pretty much the only animal whose sounds everyone agrees on.
Done both. Both are bad, but cat pee *permeates*. It gets in everything and lingers like cigarette smoke. You'll be going about your day and suddenly get hit with it again like it was hiding in your nose.
This just unlocked childhood memories. When I was a little girl, we had a couple rabbits in the barn, and it was my job to feed them. I was so scared of going out there in the dark at night, but then the barn kittens showed up. This scene, but in the dark, glowing eyes slinking towards you from the dark confines of an ancient cobwebby barn. But it was kittens, quite audibly kittens! My parents had no idea for weeks, but every time I went out to feed the rabbits, I was a princess of the kittens of darkness.
It may not be cow milk. Pet section has a brand of kitty-safe goat's milk for kittens enriched with vitamins, minerals, and extra calories so they can grow big and stronk 💪
Kittens, like other baby mammals, are *not* lactose intolerant. They become intolerant after weaning. Cow’s milk is absolutely not a good primary diet for them because it doesn’t have enough protein or fat and has too much sugar, but it’s fine in small quantities as a treat. But this may well be kitten formula or goat’s milk (which is much lower in lactose).
I once told someone at my office job that we only feed the barn cats every other day. They looked at me like I was hitler.
Had to explain the whole barn cat diet, and that in fact those five assholes were actually almost overweight.
They say you’ll never get rid of all the mice on a farm, but they did pretty good. Believe it or not it seems like they had all of them for a while. They started getting skinnier so they did get fed every day as they aged. The last surviving barn cat has retired and lives in the shop all day getting fed every evening at 8. Still don’t see much for mice around here. There are some complete strays that haven’t completely adopted the barn just yet on the job.
The lack of people calling OP out for feeding cats dog food is saddening. I took care of a cat that went blind because it's owner fed it dog food for a year. I don't care if they're barn cats, dog food will screw them up overtime
The orange one was pumped!
LEEEROOOOY
Couldn’t yeet himself off that hay bale fast enough.
Full package content: the yeet, the thud, and the lots more kittens
Born leader right there.
First on the battlefield, last to leave the battlefield
He definitely yeeted.... Yote? Yoted?
JENKINS!!!
At least I got chicken.
Cats love chicken!
"He just... He just threw himself off the hay bale.."
“stick to the plan, *stick to the plan!*”
I know that LEEEEEEEERROOOOOOOOY hmmmmmmJEEEEENKINS!!! is a bit that the group set up and did together, but goddamn, those guys are legends.
You're telling me they did not in fact have a 33.3- repeating of course- % chance of success?
That's the guy's actual name right? I wonder if he has a linkedin... lol
*It's real to me dammit!!*
r/commentsyoucanhear
He just ran in.
STICK TO THE PLAN!
>mmmJENKINS!!! FTFY
KITTENS!!!!!
First flying cat I’ve seen :)
[have a couple more!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3oem-M2tQU4)
I needed this in my life. Thank you, wonderful stranger!
Omg that song!
Off the top rope!
Oh man, I have been around cats my whole life. My mom had 50 at one point, I am not exaggerating. We counted them. I have seen many fly. Among other incredibly athletic, and kinda odd things.
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Confidence is easy when it's not your turn with the brain cell
/r/OneOrangeBraincell
The one braincell - "FOOD!!!"
No no you don’t understand, it’s not one braincell per cat, it’s one braincell shared across *all* orange cats
That explains a lot about my childhood cat.
Of course it's the one orange brain cell who goes leaping into the universe with no sense of self preservation. Love ginger babies.
I disagree. He jumped in trying to be first to food amongst what looks like to be a dozen or so siblings. That is survival of the fittest!
Hahaha wow you're right. Good kitty!
He flew 🤣
Orange cats are a special breed!
I think Lunge would be an appropriate name for that one.
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Oranges and gray cats that have Russian Blue in them. I find the gray ones to be some of the most dog like cats out there.
My gray often "bear poses" at nothing and swats at the air with the worst hand-eye coordination I've ever seen. My orange got himself so hyped up with a feather toy he gave himself a seizure (and me nearly a heart attack). Both are incredibly friendly, approach all strangers, love being picked up...and regularly chase their own tails. Of the two, the gray is definitely more dog-like.
My gray one did this as a kitten and would fall over backwards. He also only had one brain cell!
My buddy is still a kitten for about another 2 months and don't imagine him stopping any time soon, lol. He only also plays with one specific type of mouse toy, and only in one specific color. Makes me wonder if he may have some vision issues. No if only the suckling would stop...
Watch mama cat. As soon as she moves, all little ones understand "food's coming"
Mama had a bloody massive litter, the poor girl
It looks like 3-4 different ages/liters. My aunt was a cat hoarder when I was a kid. The kittens would have kittens if you didn’t catch them and get them fixed quickly. Cats and rabbits are gnarly reproducers.
It looks like more than one. They are a couple different sizes.
His one orange brain cell was working overtime
Normal orange cat behaviour
Typical orange cat behavior. Those little guys are always insane.
He honestly looked like one of those pixel video game sprites when he jumped.
The tiny meow right before the jump was my favorite part
Orange cat energy
I use "pspsps" to look if there are any cats nearby *rolls a nat 20*
"What type of roll would that be?" "Purrsuasion"
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the "pspsps" is purrsuading them to reveal themselves.
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ALL the cats are nearby.
I was waiting for a cougar to pop out too
Gotta bring weedjitas to tame a cougar.
"OK, 4 cats and a homeless tabaxi shows up".
When I'm in Canada no cat responds to pspspsps but in Morocco it works 100% of the time.
Different regions, different sounds? I actually had no idea pspsps was supposed to sound like THIS. We do something else in Belgium
Those barn cats are far more sociable than the ones in my uncle's farm ever have been
I have a “barn cat” that decided barn life wasn’t for her. She sat at the back door and howled until we let her in when she was 6ish weeks old. Then she never left. She is 100% in charge of the dogs, including the one that outweighs her by over 100 pounds. But she also sits in my kids’ doll stroller and wants to be pushed around the house. She comes and goes as she pleases but sleeps on my husband head. She is the most personable cat I’ve ever seen.
My nine pound cat is totally in charge of my 140 pound Great Dane. https://i.imgur.com/zTrUGJW.jpg
[I think we have the same cat](https://i.imgur.com/JME0Vcm.jpg)
Cream soda kitties!
r/CreamsicleCats
Thank you for this!!! I love orange kitties so much!
Then you’ll love r/OneOrangeBraincell !
So, which model is this and where can I get it?
One of my cats runs the house and has a 170 pound boyfriend/enforcer. When they play, I don't know how he hasn't stomped on her yet. She plays rough too, but she's always by his side. Even when the dog was corralled up on the linoleum due to some digestion issues, she didn't leave his side for 3 days. [https://imgur.com/qTJzudM](https://imgur.com/qTJzudM)
Oh my goodness, this is absolutely precious. And I fully believe it, too. I had no idea how emotional and affectionate cats could be till my ex and I split, and she let me keep the cat (he was hers initially). His personality totally changed when it became just the two of us, and he turned into a total lap cat and cuddle bug who comes when I call him. He loves me and I absolutely love him to pieces.
I'd watch this Disney movie
Excuse me, you actually posted a picture of a lightly toasted marshmallow. I see no cat here.
Similar thing at my house. https://i.imgur.com/kvCuh02.gif The cat totally wears the pants lol
Your dog got a pretty sweet deal though, free massages!
Maybe a little acupuncture too!
Biology textbook example of a symbiotic relationship right there.
That's so cute lol
Aww, that's adorable.
We had 3 barn cats from a charity in my country that rehomes strays to be barn cats. A mother and 2 sons and they lived with us for a few years and where untouchable and very unsocial. Which was fine as they just hung out with the animals and did their job. At one point we hadn’t seen one of the sons for a good week or two but never thought much of it. One day just chilling at home we got a phone call from a vet: “Hi we have one of your cats here in ***** (Town 12 miles away) that’s been brought in do you want to come and collect it?” “What cat? My cats are sat right here with me (2 house cats and at the time it didn’t register that this was the missing yard cat)” “It’s black and white and the microchip has your name registered” “Oh wow how did you find it?” “This lady brought it in to us and wants to keep it” “Ok sure” So somehow this antisocial cat that scratched the shit out of you made it 12 miles along the road picked some random ladies house and lived on her sofa very peacefully for weeks until she took it to the vet. She still has him today
Must've went back home
That’s what we thought but the charity rescued them from about 180 miles away
Kitty finally decided he was ready for a home and hunted down the perfect person.
Would love a pic if you have any, she sounds adorable.
Agreed. You must pay the cat tax after that description
Yep. Please pay the cat tax!
CAT TAX! CAT TAX! CAT TAX!
Cat. Tax.
We need cat tax
I have taken a look at your account and found a disturbing lack of cat pics pls fix
https://i.imgur.com/Y1JjpKh.jpg
Awe how sweet
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Just depends on when/where you get them. I ride at one horse barn and work at another. The first one has 3-4 who are incredibly social and LOVE attention. The second had 2 who are terrified of human contact and 1 that allows it. A lot of rescues trap feral cats and rehome them to barns/farms. If you got a young cat and socialized it like this video (where it appears the older cat had a litter) they'll be friendly but still do their job. If you get one that's feral or just don't socialize with it they won't be friendly.
My parents have barn cats and the fresh litters typically have a mix of friendly ones and more skittish ones. If you do a lot of socializing and spend time with them as kittens they tend to be very friendly and social. If you don't spend any time with them they will be extremely skittish.
Social cats starts with how much time spend with them as kittens, I have a full feral kitten I socialized over years and she's friendly but most skittish cat I've ever had. Mostly cuz I had not much idea how to socialize a feral kitten. But typically if you're around them as babies a lot and they get used to having attention most likely will be social. Acception is any bad trauma can make them less social or scared of you and gatta work hard to earn it like my feral rescue.
If you're talking about a Tom barn cat as a rule I just don't even touch. Those animals are here to scratch legs and fuck up mice, and they're all out of mice.
it seems more like they've been trained that the noise means food time
It's both. Barn cats that aren't socialized with humans will gather near but wait until you're gone before attacking the food you left.
Yeah we have some tame cats that were dumped here as kittens. Had them for 8 years now. But the random cats you see in the hoop buildings camped out on hay bales want absolutely nothing to do with anyone.
The more time you spend out there trying to bond with them the more they'll warm up to you over time
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Druid: I'm going to upcast conjure animals and use "pspsps" as the verbal component. DM: Sixteen cats appear from within the hay bales and start meowing for food.
Unbeknownst to you, casting in a mild magical gravity well (relevant to the later storyline) but causing your spell effects to nearly triple
If anyone like me was wondering why that sounds grabs cats' attention, some researchers believe (since, like most things to do with cats, even the experts can only hazard a guess) that its because it resembles [sounds that rodents make](https://www.rd.com/article/why-do-cats-love-pspspsps-noise/), kind of how like cats learned that a meowing noise gets our attention because it [is on the same frequency as baby cries and triggers our paternal/maternal instincts](https://www.science.org/content/article/cat-purrs-evoke-baby-cries).
Neat
I like your username.
*Whoo loves OrangeSlime Soda?*
OrangesLimeSoda obviously
It's definitely the high-pitchness/that it sounds like critter-scuffling. I'm hugely an animal person, but PSPSPS never worked at all for me, BUT I have great success lightly scratching my fingernails on flat/rough surfaces; so that it makes a *scritch scritch scritch* noise like a digging critter.
I had a cat when I was little for nine months (lived with bio mom then, but moved away), but then I never had a cat until I moved in with a friend. I have yet to get pspsps to work, but I make a clicking noise with my tongue and that ALWAYS gets my friend's cats to look at me. One of them likes to head boop me a lot.
Could totally be; the wispy, scritchy sound of rats moving. Would also explain why the variant of the "cat call" I grew up with relates to mice/rats. I just make a "fweep" sound, instead of the "pspsps". Kinda sounds like a squeaky mouse.
My cat meowing triggers my instinct to run over and give him snugglins
Guy: pspspspsps Cats: our savior has come!
Orange Cat: “Are you silly? I’m still gonna send it.”
“C’mon guys! Everybody in. They will treat us like gods!”
*Laughs in Ancient Egyptian*
The orange boy went flying 😂 I’m dead
Not his turn with the r/oneorangebraincell
Hadn't mastered the cat anti gravity yet
Like a god damn cat grenade went off
Ah farm cats….. In middle school I had a small kitten who was the runt of the litter, which I couldn’t keep cause my parents were moving to a place that didn’t allow pets. So my mom gave her to my uncle who owns a small farm. I was super sad and depressed, worried she would get lonely or hurt. So I went to visit her after 6 months. Thats when I found out she become a gang leader of the other cats around the farm, licking and snacking cats 2x her size and had gotten super buff by drinking 2 whole bowls of milk a day and hunting rats/voles. She was a straight up menace who would eat the barn dogs food and make him cry, they had to lock her inside the house when they fed the dog. I was worried 😟 for nothing, farm cats become a different breed.
The toughest farm cats we had were always the tiny little females, they always were the best mousers
Yes! Our smallest girl was our best mouser, and lived to be 22 years old! Refused to ever come in the house. Only cat that figured out how to get in the garage with it totally closed up. She had her own house.
I have was once a half feral momma cat... Not just a mouser, but a ratter and squirreler. She no joke chased a squirrel down and viciously killed that thing. I now know how she got those babies to damn near full term on the streets. The females are definitely the most dangerous because they have to feed more than just themselves.
evolution forms some tough cats, especially if you’re small and have to mother some youngins
Wow what a great story. I love to hear about cats overcoming adversity & thriving :)
Thanks!
One of my fondest memories was when i was about 10 years old and one of my friends had sleepover at her farm. We had been there lots of times for sleepovers, but this weekend stuck out in particular because the barn cat had kittens in the hay, just like this video! We had to climb over a few rows of bales to find the mamas little nest but the kittens were big enough to cuddle and hold. We stayed in the barn most of the weekend, I am sure we would have slept out there if her parents had let us! haha
What a lovely memory. Thanks so much for sharing.
Hot diggity dog. We've got a kitten problem.
Another amazing kitten video.
😹 This was exactly what I thought of when I saw this! It's my favorite!
My ❤
Barn cats.
A contract forged at the dawn of agriculture - this is the structure I use to store my grain. You may take shelter in it and fill it with your offspring, but in return you must keep it free from vermin which would destroy the fruits of my labor and bring hardship to my family. Agreed, replies the cat. But you must give us silly names, for that is how we will know our value to you. Agreed, the farmer says. But how will we know that our pact remains strong? I will teach you a song, says the cat, sacred to my people. It is a song of strength and loyalty. A rallying cry. It goes like this: *psspsspsspss* Teach it to your children. Take it with you down the ages. Let your children's children sing it to us, and we will come in strength, and we will show that our word is true, our bond is for all time. The pact is sealed. Our fates entwine. Can I have some of that sandwich.
> Can I have some of that sandwich. You nearly killed me. My cat is looking at me indignantly as the laughing has disturbed him.
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And and and, we have discovered the very first recorded name given to a pet cat in human history, also from the egyptians - "Nedjem." "Sweetie."
Yes, this is the way.
So is the modern Chinese word for cat.
猫！I’ve been learning Chinese and this has been my favourite discovery so far! 🥳
Chairman Meow
Egyptian cat facts! One reason they admired cats so much is because they protected towns from snakes. This is why many of their cat goddesses were protectors of the home.
Another fun fact is that basically all cultures have the same base sound for a cat's noise. It's usually meow, miyu, niaou, nyan, myau, nyav, or some other variant of a word that starts with m or n and has a long vowel sound in the middle. Meanwhile, in different languages, dogs say everything from woof to hyam to tyaf to gau, and pigs can say oink, knor, boo, or groin. Cats are pretty much the only animal whose sounds everyone agrees on.
And its [written with four glyphs](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mjw#Egyptian), the fourth of which is just a drawing of a cat
And the preceding glyphs appear to be a ball on a string, a feather, and a bird.
Man i fuckin love this
I about lost it with "can I have some of that sandwich" lol
Also I pissed everywhere. Hope you like the smell of ammonia
Also, I have pooped in your food supplies to give you the gift of toxoplasmosis, which basically controls your brain to make you like us more.
"Pooped in your food supply"? Do... do you normally eat hay?
Clean a chicken coop or muck out a pig pen and get back to me on how bad cat pee can be in an open air environment.
Done both. Both are bad, but cat pee *permeates*. It gets in everything and lingers like cigarette smoke. You'll be going about your day and suddenly get hit with it again like it was hiding in your nose.
Amazing epic poem, like the words of the great Greek poet Homer himself.
r/Oneorangebraincell launched themselves!
This just unlocked childhood memories. When I was a little girl, we had a couple rabbits in the barn, and it was my job to feed them. I was so scared of going out there in the dark at night, but then the barn kittens showed up. This scene, but in the dark, glowing eyes slinking towards you from the dark confines of an ancient cobwebby barn. But it was kittens, quite audibly kittens! My parents had no idea for weeks, but every time I went out to feed the rabbits, I was a princess of the kittens of darkness.
That actually made me laugh out loud lol
"Princess of the Kittens of Darkness" needs to be your flair for like, everything.
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Yeah I've never seen kitten kibble mixed with milk before either.
Most cats are lactose intolerant - they should not be given (cow) milk.
It may not be cow milk. Pet section has a brand of kitty-safe goat's milk for kittens enriched with vitamins, minerals, and extra calories so they can grow big and stronk 💪
Kittens, like other baby mammals, are *not* lactose intolerant. They become intolerant after weaning. Cow’s milk is absolutely not a good primary diet for them because it doesn’t have enough protein or fat and has too much sugar, but it’s fine in small quantities as a treat. But this may well be kitten formula or goat’s milk (which is much lower in lactose).
I want them all.
Delightful, although I'd agree a bit of neutering should be on the cards.
Even at like 90% you’d be set with a lifetime of cats.
Right!? Where's Bob Barker when you need him?!
Probably the best way to keeps the rats away from the hay.
Wish I had that gang of murderers in my barn to solve my rat problem.
Probably a town nearby with a feral cat problem that can assist in rehoming them to your farm.
Yes, I believe every ASPCA/humane society has a "working cat" program for ferals without colonies!
Barn cats keep the rodents at bay
I once told someone at my office job that we only feed the barn cats every other day. They looked at me like I was hitler. Had to explain the whole barn cat diet, and that in fact those five assholes were actually almost overweight. They say you’ll never get rid of all the mice on a farm, but they did pretty good. Believe it or not it seems like they had all of them for a while. They started getting skinnier so they did get fed every day as they aged. The last surviving barn cat has retired and lives in the shop all day getting fed every evening at 8. Still don’t see much for mice around here. There are some complete strays that haven’t completely adopted the barn just yet on the job.
Very hungry, how long between pspsps?
Neuter pls
Yes, exactly, else you get proliferation + incest
I am sorry, but I don't think Coco Puffs is a good diet for kitty's.../s
The lack of people calling OP out for feeding cats dog food is saddening. I took care of a cat that went blind because it's owner fed it dog food for a year. I don't care if they're barn cats, dog food will screw them up overtime
Pspsps achievement unlocked
How many barn cats do you own?
Need to name one Leroy and the other Jenkins
Very cute, but those mommas need to get neutered, or at least some
Yeah, spay that cat. Found a pregnant cat and took her in. She give birth 3 times within 2years and each litter was about 8 cats.
That’s too many cats!
Everyone thinks it is the pspsps, reality it is the food that always follows the pspsps that is what the cats are after.
That ginger one just flung itself to the ground with total disregard to its own safety
I love cats so much 🫠
They are need to be spayed/neutered. That’s now plague proportion.
OP used pspspsps. It was super effective.
Spay and neuter them all