In the absence of sunlight: it is time to entertain ourselves!
You have three seconds! Three Two One DING!
Oh you are all too good. Yes. It is indeed a teenager cow’s nose.
The cow was saying to me – quit with the photographing- throw the damn hay over already!
The mystery of the missing eggs
Hmm.
I have been keeping the chickens in the henhouse the last few days. And feeding and watching them in there. And I have gotten four eggs a day. But look at this hole in the door. Dug last night.
Something has been trying to creep back in. It has dug a hole under the door. Do you see?
I will throw flour all around the door and round the back of that building tonight to see if I can catch some footprints. It is a little too early for bastard mink. Though it has warmed up?
But I don’t think it is a mink. This is an egg eater not a meat eater – yet.
Though having said that I will mink-proof the space before I go away – I will be going to California next week, just for a week. It has been too long.
I swore I would never have any more cats:
But the Tall Teenager, who is now an adult and who is looking after the farm for me while I’m away had this wild cat that’s been hanging around his place. I don’t know. He wanted to bring it over here so I agreed because he is being so helpful and so here we are, beautiful big: Tom Kat.
Tom Kat is living in the Chicken Hospital until he gets to know us or else he will run back to Tall Teenagers house, which is just across the creek.
Plus BooBoo needs to get to know that he can’t chase him. Oh, and that reminds me, the big black cat who Him Indoors has named SnowBall appeared again yesterday so now there are four cats here when I wanted none at all. My poor birds.
Today is going to get away on me fast!
Lots to do. But you know how I love to be busy.
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27 responses to “Pop Quiz! Identify this:”
Perhaps Tom Kat will help protect the eggs. That looks like a big hole for a mink.
Yes. I am fairly sure it is not a mink. Maybe a rat?
It looks big for a rat, but they do steal eggs, as do rackoons, snakes, skunks, etc.
And too small for a raccoon? – we do have those and skunks and possums.
…and too small for Tima!
Unless Tima was directing the digging. She spends her whole life looking over the Tima Barrier- hopefully.
😂
I told you the pigs were plotting… 🙂
LOL!
Oh, well that would have definitely been my second guess…
But what was your first guess ( that’s more fun)!
Tubers, artfully arranged. (Mine was not to reason why…).
Tom Kat has a beautiful face! He looks like a lovey to me. Cats need homes and love too.
Yes. He is an outdoor cat apparently – not house trained TT said – he tried to keep him inside but the cat made messes everywhere. But I have this big warm barn with chickens and pigs and other cats so best he is here. I guess
I so agree. Your big ginger ones are so beautiful & good.
Well that was fun. My first thought was cell division on a microscope slide 😉
Can’t wait to see what you discover about that hole. Maybe the Tall Teenager will have the chance to delve into the mystery and if it is the Bastard Mink by chance, set Boo to dispatch it for good. I chuckled a bit at the new cat…truly one of those ‘best laid plans’ situations that seem to never work out as we hope.
Hmm, you set me thinking…
What’s bigger than a rat, but smaller than a (full-grown) Coon? How about this possibility: http://thetanglednest.com/2013/08/opossum-in-the-chicken-coop/
And I prefer to think of them as more helpful animal than driven to eat the source of their eggy diet…)
I posted the beautiful image of Tom Kat & a link to the Kitchen’s Garden on my facebook page just now. It brought its first like right off.
If it was here, I’d say you had a carpet python, but too cold, wrong latitude. I don’t think even local snakes are active in your weather…
I thought it looked like a bunch of oddly shaped potatoes. 🙂 Not even close! That is a beautiful cat. Love its face.
That was my thought, too!
I think it’s a skunk that dug the hole under the door. They were a problem when I lived on the blasted hill in Chicago as were the raccoons. Such fun to open the dumpster lid to find an angry skunk and avoid being sprayed in the big city.
Skunk does make sense. They are out now that it is warmer
that nose is so cute! I never would have guessed it. I hope you solve the egg mystery
Now they are locked in for a few days they are laying back in their proper places.
Lovely Tom Kat! Funny how animals find us sometimes even when we don’t want them.
I had a beautiful cat who I also named Tom. Got him as a kitten when I was 4 years old. He was more like a dog than a cat – devoted to me and would let me do all sorts of things, like putting him in my doll’s high chair. He was tolerant and had a real sense of humour – he used to wait in his bed and gently swipe your ankles when you walked past. No claws, just a little tap to make you jump. I’m sure he did it just for the fun of it! Very sadly, he was poisoned by a gamekeeper when I was 14.
A mystery about the eggs!
Glad to hear you’re California-bound soon. You deserve a break!
Your Tom sounds like a real character. Sad to be poisoned though – poison should not be allowed. I opened Tom Kat’s door but he is staying in the chicken hospital still. Probably cosy.