tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2142773943121010672024-03-16T01:09:05.604-06:00Cattales from Barn Cat MansionHigh in the hills and deep in a valley sits a mansion. Room to roam, hills to hunt in and post upon post - to scratch.
It's not your typical mansion... it's BARN CAT MANSION.BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.comBlogger604125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-27635146927320039512015-02-03T22:03:00.002-07:002015-02-03T22:03:42.243-07:00The perfect diet.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Watching barn cats look after kittens taught me a few things about "small cat nutrition". The mother tirelessly hunts to feed her family. She brings them</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>protein</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in the form of birds, mice, gophers and pocket gophers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I really don't like rodents and I'm not good at catching them, so I fed him the next best thing:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>hamburger!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On a cattle ranch, ground beef is readily available. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Three or four times a day, Little Scruffy gobbled up a small hamburger covered in milk. Autumn also loved the hamburger mixture, and had finally given up on trying to eat the little guy. In her eyes, he was no longer a mouse.</span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-82256803272587544982015-01-31T13:29:00.001-07:002015-01-31T13:29:33.049-07:00Little Chicken Legs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some days, work was too much for </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Little Scruffy Peanut</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As much as he loved running through the grass, it did wear him out. He was learning to carry himself on underdeveloped legs and feet. His bone structure wasn't up to par and people would say: <b><i> </i></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><i>"Oh that poor little kitten! Look at his spindly little legs".</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I would say: </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> "Don't worry. Once he starts eating meat, his bones will grow".</i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And that's exactly what happened.</span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-34545506069580472012015-01-22T10:13:00.002-07:002015-01-22T10:13:54.868-07:00What's in a name?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By June 14th, Little Scruffy got tired of travelling in the cat carrier. Giving in to a crying baby seems to be part of our nature, so on the way to work, he was allowed to roam free. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When I opened the cage, the little guy scrambled up my arm and perched where he could see the road. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Every once in awhile, I'd pat him on the head and say;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>"You're such a little peanut!"</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">More and more, I called him Peanut until the name stuck, but it wasn't fair to change from Little Scruffy to Peanut. Jane had named him first. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hence, we compromised, and he became known as</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Little Scruffy Peanut</b></span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-42401193614740208942015-01-08T13:31:00.001-07:002015-01-08T13:31:28.809-07:00No one licked the kitten!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By May 27, Little Scruffy's eyes were completely open. Every day, he was packed up and taken along. He helped feed, mow lawns, clean barns, and any number of other things happening on any given day, but he wasn't always called</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Little Scruffy Peanut.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A 3 year old called Jane happened to see the cage sitting by a fence in town while I worked in the yard. She played with him for a few minutes and decided to call him Little Scruffy. His last name came later.</span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-80449605656769832152015-01-07T12:36:00.002-07:002015-01-07T12:36:41.478-07:00Two's a crowd......<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It only took a few minutes to realize that Autumn didn't jump in the box to snuggle!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Little Scruffy moved toward the warm body that he thought might be his long, lost mother.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>He got a rude awakening!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Autumn grabbed with her front feet, thumped him with her back feet and proceeded to try to open her mouth wide enough to crush his head!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My gosh!! <b> Get that cat out of there!</b></span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-53892377863026888502015-01-06T09:26:00.001-07:002015-01-06T09:26:47.443-07:00Autumn Broomfield<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Flashback!!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>to before the arrival of Little Scruffy Peanut</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Peyton thought a new kitten might ease the sadness she felt with the disappearance of Big Kitty. Some farm friends, the Broomfields, mentioned a litter of Manx cross babies, so we went to have a look. There in the shop, guarding the cage was the most vicious looking Basset Hound ever seen! At least she was looking as vicious as a Basset Hound can. Inside the cage were 6 kittens with tails of varying lengths. Peyton fell in love with the black calico that, at the time, had a tail about a half inch long. She picked her up, and immediately gave her a name:</span><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She called her Autumn....... </b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><br />
BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-42416848064788315352015-01-04T10:17:00.000-07:002015-01-04T10:17:13.725-07:00It's not a MOUSE!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When Little Scruffy Peanut wasn't in his pretty new blue cat carrier, he lived in this little box. The milk mixture started to work it's magic, and he began to grow. His coat took on a healthy shine and it was easy to see, he looked forward to mealtime. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There was only one problem, and that was</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Autumn </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the Manx we picked up 5 days prior to finding</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Little Scruffy Peanut</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Autumn was only 7 weeks, but had a hunting instinct, the likes of which we'd never seen before. To our utter dismay,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Autumn thought this kitten was a mouse!!</i></b></span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-20506728763389122822015-01-03T08:00:00.000-07:002015-01-03T12:36:28.391-07:00Tools of the trade......<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nobody said it would be easy. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nothing, and I mean</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>NOTHING!!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">can replace a cat mother's milk. Dropping life into this kitten, one drip at a time was tedious work. As you can see, we improvised and came up with a mixture of Cat Milk and cream with a bit of 2% milk, a cattle syringe for administration and a warm washcloth to wipe away the pain!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He didn't ever learn to suck. He lost the instinct when he lost his mother. An inherent will to live kept this little guy going. What kept me going through this ordeal?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>......</i>a<i> </i>little voice that kept saying,<i style="font-weight: bold;"> "Don't give up!"</i></span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-68954599007017738872015-01-02T12:30:00.000-07:002015-01-02T12:30:51.685-07:00Survivor!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thanks for hanging in there and waiting for another episode from Barn Cat Mansion. I lost my creativity when Big Kitty didn't return, but it's time to move on. I talked about a new kitty and we'll track his progress from the day I found him, and gradually catch up on his life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They said it couldn't be done. They said, you can't save a kitten abandoned by its mother at 2 days of age! I said,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>"I can't leave him there to die!"</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So began the saga of a tiny kitten, lifeless and cold, that I found in the shop at Fox Farm on May 15th, 2014. He was born on the 13th and abandoned on the 14th. I saw that he was alone, but hoped his mother would come back. On the morning of the 15th, he seemed to be dead. I placed a hot water bottle in a blanket with him and waited for a miracle. Within an hour, his little paws began to move, and he thought about eating. That night, I left him in the care of Dr T. She fed him throughout the night. My first question the following morning was, "Did he die?" She said, "No! he's doing ok!" And so began the life of Little Scruffy Peanut.</span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-72018048946634091502014-11-03T10:11:00.001-07:002014-11-03T10:11:17.238-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Little Orangey Blue Eyes is our 2014 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Halloween Mascot.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some folks carve pumpkins to resemble cats, but we have a cat that resembles a pumpkin, at least in the color department!:)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He posed in front of the fading autumn hues of the cotoniaster bush, and we couldn't help but realize the part he is beginning to play in the ongoing saga known as</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Cattales from Barn Cat Mansion</i></b></span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-31763454772677136492014-10-31T21:14:00.003-06:002014-10-31T21:14:51.816-06:00Have a Happy Halloween!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Flashback to Halloween 2012!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We'll always remember how </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Big Kitty </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">could organize a photo shoot of the whole family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We miss his calm manner, friendly eyes and big fluffy cheeks. </span><br />
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<br />BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-55952504059409152692014-10-13T11:44:00.001-06:002014-10-13T11:44:38.995-06:00Autumn's her name, hunting's her game!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A second addition to the Barn Cat Mansion family is<b> Autumn</b>. Actually, she arrived shortly before Little Scruffy Peanut, but that story will have to start from the beginning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Autumn B.B. Broomfield</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> is a descendant of a long line of Manx farm cats raised on the Broomfield Farm, way down in the flat lands. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You can see by her intense stare, that she's a hunter, but that too, is a story for another day.</span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-4550292775496806562014-10-11T22:04:00.000-06:002014-10-11T22:04:09.373-06:00Meet Little Scruffy Peanut!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Yes, it's been awhile. and there's a lot of water under the bridge since we last visited our blog. It's been difficult to tell a story because the main character, who inspired the whole Barn Cat Mansion story. is no longer with us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Big Kitty, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>AKA Bumble Bee Lion King Orangey Butt.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">left to make his yearly rounds last spring and didn't come back. Bad weather, heavy snow and bitter wind must have impeded his journey, and we're afraid he perished in the snow. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">We can't replace the Big Kitty, but life goes on. The next chapter of Barn Cat Mansion will tell the story of Little Scruffy Peanut. That's him sitting on the stump.</span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-33397235609522431972014-04-20T18:00:00.000-06:002014-04-20T22:26:03.237-06:00It's like this...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Timbit tells us what happened:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"So like I called OT out on her vile behavior and she was like, don't tell me I'm the Queen and I was like, you're ruining our day and we like, won't get any Temptations if we, like don't find ALL of the eggs and like, give them to Barn Cat Master and she was like, I forgot about the the reward, so I'll like, behave and like apologize because I was like, so wrong to take the pink egg and the yellow chicken. So like, Barn Cat Master, it's like all straightened out and you can like, bring the other five bags of like, Temptations and like, put them in the feed pail in the Mansion."</span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-75088209627473568642014-04-20T15:00:00.000-06:002014-04-20T22:25:11.438-06:00Tough as nails!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fur flew and everyone ran off......except</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Timbit!!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She's not one to back down, even when the Queen is pitching a Queenish fit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">OT's outburst is ruining Easter morning. The rules are clear: hunt the eggs down and bring them to Barn Cat Master. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The reward??? </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Temptations for breakfast, lunch and dinner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Timbit looked OT squarely in the eye and said,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>"Come here! I want to talk to you!" </i></b></span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-32211954103145790682014-04-20T13:00:00.000-06:002014-04-20T22:24:31.519-06:00Chill out, OT!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sunday morning is meant for sleeping in. Everyone knows that. OT was kicked out of her sleeping tub waaaay too early.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or she woke up on the wrong side of the tub!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Whatever the problem is, she's mad!!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whiskers found the pink egg and OT took it, along with the yellow chicken, and claimed them for her own.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whiskers doesn't really care, and finds her behavior unladylike and certainly un-Queenish!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Everyone stay away from OT and let her have the pink egg.</span><br />
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BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-39581997905571542142014-04-20T11:38:00.002-06:002014-04-20T11:40:17.761-06:00Game on!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Easter morning started like any other. Everyone was hunting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh wait!! It's not like any other morning because Mansion cats never hunt in the morning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Except for THIS morning!!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yup!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>They're hunting!!:)</b></span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-85288084153681385822014-04-16T11:27:00.000-06:002014-04-16T11:27:31.381-06:00Court Jester!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tipster may be the "odd man out", but he loves life at BCM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>He's just plain L-A-Z-Y!!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As you know, a few years back, he met with the sharp knife of Dr. T and is the only "fixed" cat in the Royal Family. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In traditional royal circles, he's known as a eunuch! Around here, he's</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Tipster, Friend to All, Enemy to None!</i></b>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-49669766350137477482014-04-15T09:10:00.002-06:002014-04-15T09:10:42.880-06:00Flag is it!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Flag was at the meeting, but left abruptly when her name came up in the conversation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>She knew what was coming!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the winter, we lost Homer "Chelsea" Simpson. She had a chronic cold and the vet suggested we let her go since she perpetually infected the other cats. Sadly, she passed away peacefully in January. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anyway!! Someone must replace H"C"S as Attendant to Every Wish and Command of OT!!</span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-49098846482341285822014-04-12T10:56:00.002-06:002014-04-12T10:56:33.881-06:00Don't tell me the pail is empty, AGAIN?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">LOBE's nose is somewhat out of joint. He was overlooked for the position of Prince, but really, that's only natural. Pinkerton is better qualified and at least one year older.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">LOBE is now in charge of Cat Food.</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When the pail runs low, he's required to set an empty bag on the Mansion floor, sit squarely in the middle of it, and meow loudly until someone understands the dilemma.</span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-76457160538567931032014-04-10T10:38:00.000-06:002014-04-10T10:38:25.660-06:00Life goes on....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pinkerton listened intently as Orangey Tail laid down the rules. Whether he absorbed the lesson is another story.<div>
He is the proverbial "renegade", strong willed and single minded. Orangey Tail, Queen of Barn Cat Mansion and everything beyond, rules with an iron paw. On this day, she discussed the role of each and every member of the family. It came as a total surprise when she announced a promotion. Pinkerton will from this day forward be known as:</div>
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<b>Prince Pinkerton, Hillside Warrior </b></div>
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<i>Protector of those less fortunate.</i></div>
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BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-37166543820410021632014-03-21T11:01:00.002-06:002014-03-21T11:01:54.634-06:00Spring beauty in b&w<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Timbit is the coolest cat we have. She's aloof and partially friendly and never in the way. She likes parties, but feels the urge to eat and run, so difficult to photograph.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This year, she turns two, and in cat years, that's plenty old enough to have kittens. To date, she's shown no interest in becoming a mother, other than a fleeting fling with BK late last summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>C'mon Timbit! Get with the program.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pinkerton would be proud to take on the challenges of fathering. He's not interested in "fatherhood", but fathering is right up his alley.:)</span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-14187765926677775242014-03-11T12:02:00.001-06:002014-03-11T12:02:36.383-06:00Below the radar......<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Here it is - Tom Cat City!!</b><br />
<b>Big Kitty</b>, being the King and all, sits in the highest spot he can find. That way, he keeps an eye on everything without anyone knowing he's watching.<br />
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<b>Pinkerto</b>n perches on the highest post, aware of the King above him, and hoping he doesn't draw any unwanted attention.<br />
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<b>LOBE</b> ignores them. He's not interested in their escapades, because while those two are fighting, he's checking out the ladies.BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-8471473936414898962014-03-02T14:22:00.000-07:002014-03-02T14:22:56.176-07:00Back off, Newbie!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He is a son of Socks, but that's neither here nor there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Spring is around the corner, theoretically. (You wouldn't know it today with the temperature pushing -30C with a windchill of -45C.) :(</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The young tom has declared a position in the Fox Farm hierarchy and his plan is to come in at the top.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Socks took the challenge and was heard to say,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>``Over my dead body!!``</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cat battles can be seen and heard throughout the barnyard.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />It`s never easy to overthrow a King, especially when he`s young, strong and dedicated to his profession.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214277394312101067.post-55636819823618238792014-02-28T12:44:00.002-07:002014-02-28T12:44:52.620-07:00Meet Smudgy!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh sorry! Didn't mean to imply that the cat we saw in the last blog was Sid. <b> Sid is black </b>and has been known to move to the neighbors twice with her family. We'll be happy if she comes home again for her yearly <b>"undercover"</b> meeting with <b>Socks</b>, but she should have been here by now. We think the west neighbors have <b>"sidnapped"</b> her and are holding her, according to her will, in their house!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Penelope Pepper Face</b> went missing last summer, around the time our north neighbors across the road moved out!! If she was scrounging lunch over there, maybe they caught her and took her away. We'll never know, but we have our suspicions. <b> This is one of the new faces at Fox Farm.</b></span>BarnCat Masterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07445452312945814840noreply@blogger.com2