Barncat house

[Bill]

I’m on the laptop and look out the window, and who do I see?

The cat’s nosing around a rabbit hole in the bark to under the deck.



She has the ‘don’t mess with me, I’m working’ look on her face. Go cat, go.




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[tps7742]

Good hunting for your new hunters. Isn’t retirement nice so we can focus more on the simpler things in life? I pay allot more attention to the small things in life now since retirement. Well part time retirement for now until this most recent project is complete.

[Bill]

Yes it sure is. Work is a 4-letter word!

I stopped at the local senior center today, to see what activities/ programs they have besides the cheap lunches. As my 44 year old hunting partner said, “I can’t imagine you sitting at a senior center”.

After talking to the fellow who runs it, I offered to help them on fund raising, writing grants, a 30x40 addition they’re building- to help the real seniors. This rural area’s population 2/3 are 65 or over.


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[tps7742]

Bill That’s good of you to use your skills learned in your previous life to help others.

[Bill]

Thanks. Folks are funny here. I offer to help for free and very rarely am I taken up on my offer. I’ve offered to help a couple start up companies I’ve met the founders and no- they know everything and don’t want to tap into my experience. Same at Montana State and Montana Western business departments. So it goes.

BTW- I looked out an upstairs window and saw Cat2. Both accounted for and the dish with cat food inside the house is being eaten.


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[tps7742]

It’s funny how rural folk can be at times as you know. Glad to hear cat 2 showed up.

[Bill]

I finally got a game cam set up.

They’re eating the food inside. As cold as it is, I’m not sure they’re sleeping in the house- I think they sleep under the Trex deck.

But we’ve not seen a single rabbit or trapped a mouse

Like in a Dr Seuss book- Thing1 and Thing2.

Cat1


Cat2




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[Texas Grown]

Good to see both are accounted for.

[Bill]

Barncat house

They’re surviving the Montana winter. I put a bunch of straw in the house, they made it through last night’s -13.

Tough little animals, they’re sunning themselves on the deck at -1.




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[Pedernal]

Awesome job on the cat mansion. While I am not a cat person, I can see how they would come in handy out in the sticks.

[Bill]

I’m not a cat person, nor is my wife.

They’re interesting to watch going on patrol and then stalking what I guess are mice- in the snow.

They’ve gone from Cat1 and 2 to Buttercup and Cleopatra. That’s as close to being buddies and coming i to the house as it gets.


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[tps7742]

Glad your mouse catchers are still with you. It is interesting to watch them hunt. We never were cat folks either but they serve their purpose.

[Rubi513]

That’s sweet!
We had a barn cat that was wild as hell when we bought our place 5 years ago. It didn’t take my daughter long to turn it into a pet…

[Texas Grown]

I’m not a cat person, nor is my wife.

They’re interesting to watch going on patrol and then stalking what I guess are mice- in the snow.

They’ve gone from Cat1 and 2 to Buttercup and Cleopatra. That’s as close to being buddies and coming i to the house as it gets.


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Are they living and/or working together?

[Bill]

They’re working together and I have trail cam pictures of both near the house. I don’t know they go inside together but I think so. It’s too **** cold for one to stay outside.


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