I wouldn't mind getting a couple barn cats at my house to keep the mice and whatever down.. wouldn't mind cats that come around when I'm outside every now any then but don't want ones that would want in the house and love to come see you every time you step outside.. my questions are does this sound like a typical "barn cat" and if so how do you get them to hang around? We had a house cat inside for about 4 months, ended up making it stay outside and something got it within about a month..
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My dad lives on 40 acres outside of corpus. 4 or 5 years ago, when my younger brother was working summers at the vet's office, he nominated my dad to "adopt" three stray cats. All female. Two black, one orange. Named MJ, Magic, and Scalabrine. Lol
Immediately, one of the three disappeared. Either fell victim to coyotes or just wandered off. The other two are still kickin'. At first they were shy but now they'll come and sit at your feet when outside. They have NEVER once stepped foot inside the house. All it took was a warm/dry barn (hayloft) and a scoop of food once a week or so. You'll regularly see them playing with mice, lizards, etc before eating them.
I wouldn't imagine that your regular, run-of-the-mill house cat has what it takes to survive outdoors permanently... Just like poor Brian Scalabrine Lol
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Randal...if your gonna have a cat I hope you have a dog act as protector until the cat learns the ropes.
Ive only had one...bengal cross...and she is awesome...she is a killer. I just play rough with our cat and keep an open food bowl on the porch. She takes midnight walks with the dogs and I. She follows the kids to collect chicken eggs. When we first got her she disappeared for a week...she got knocked up. She ended up aborting her litter...I watched her eat the fetus’ on our porch. My wife was pregnant with our first child...she cried. My dogs used to chase cats...I crated the dogs and crated our cat and put the crates next to each other...they stayed this way for several days and nights. Each day I would pull the cat out and hold her and let the dogs out and socialize them...feed them next to each other...bad behavior...smack and back to the crate immediately...good behavior kept them out of the crates. Everybody got the message. Now the cat ambushes the dogs and theyre cool.
Ill likely get a yellow tom next...and he will get fixed.Last edited by Briar Friar; 06-19-2018, 11:11 AM.
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We have caught a few feral cats that wanted to live at our storage facility - which wasn't a good thing for our tenants. I've taken 4 or 5 home to be 'barn cats' on our 15 acres in the country. These are feral cats, not cats you'd try to pick up and pet.
Anyway - whether they were coyote bait or left for greener pastures (we just let them loose to fend for themselves), none are around after the first couple of days.
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We’ve got a couple at our place that have just wandered up over the years. I feed them once a week or so and it’s enough for the two of them to stick around. They’re used to us and the dogs now but if anyone else Is there they disappear. They’ll eat a full bowl of food and still go kill something, it’s in their blood.
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