What is with our barn cats?

[TheMightyFavog]

Ever since one of our barn cats, a cute little 1 y.o. tortiseshell got pregnant about a month and a half ago, she's become quite the attention whore. This, of course is her first pregnancy. Before she got pregnant, she was really shy and reserved, but now all she wants is attention!

[stepnw1f]

1. You Have a Barn?

Very nice. Always wanted to live in the country. Living here in the city can be very anxiety ridden.

[TheMightyFavog]

3. Just a little cinderblock building attached to a large metal shed.

The previous owner who converted our place form an old one-room red brick schoolhouse to a two story place also put in a hobby farm back in the 70s. He raised a couple of cows, a few pigs, and chickens. Hell, when I was a kid, we raised chickens and ducks (but not pigs or cows) on that hobby farm and sold their eggs for extra money on the side.

[Padraig18]

2. Awwwww....

She knows you're her friend, and will feed/help her. Being preggers puts things in perspective, I would suppose.:)

[TheMightyFavog]

4. Just looked out the window....

The toriseshell was trotting back into the barn with a small rodent hanging out of her mouth. (Now if she can keep it away form our Alpha Tom, she'll have a nice little treat!)

[Don_G]

5. Sounds Like She Got A Little Attention

From one of the Tom Cats "cattin'" around.

[TheMightyFavog]

6. yeah.. I know which one....

a long haired ornage and white male of our neighbors. Our grey and white tom who was from the same litter as the tortiseshell apparently kicked his ass in a late night fight about a fortnight ago. I walked out and saw big chunks of cat hair on the ground, when I went to feed the cats, all were present, and the aforementoned tom had a little bit of fur missing form his left front leg. Later that day, I saw the neighbor's orange and white cat (they call him Puffball) and he had a lot of fur missing from him.