This is just a quickie post as it is nearly 3am here in Ireland. But I have just finished updated and re-doing my old website so it is now usable again. If you go to the front page of www.disastercat.com and click on Barn Cats you will get directly to my Barn Cat Lady Frequently Asked Questions Pages. I just copied them from the old site, so there are no recent updates. They are pretty much the ones from my work-in-progress barn cat book, but if I get more either here or at my main website I can add them in later.
Meanwhile, here at Kilmurry, the little Barn Kitties have gotten to where they race down the stairs each morning to go out and play, then race back up the stairs at sunset to get back into the bedroom. After a couple of months of hating them, the older "Uncle" cats have started to like them, Piggy even going outside for awhile with them most days So, we may keep this up for the Winter at least, day outside, night inside. Normally I'd have the babies sleeping in the conservatory plastic Cat huts by now. However the older guys would miss them and at since they are both elderly, keeping them friendly with the kittens is a good idea. Both of them were emergency re-homing/gift cats when their owner had to move to the US suddenly. The vet felt they were too old for international travel, and when their first new home did not work out they came here. Given their ages, there is a good chance that one might go before the other and they have never been seperated. So keeping them friends with the babies gives us choices if one of the young ones turns out not to be a real hunter. Though so far, all three are showing signs of being good working cats.
More photos in a day or two, meanwhile here's a preview:
