Is this a rare baby tiger?  No!  It is an invisible kitten.  At least it believes that it is invisible in the bushes out in the farm yard!  You are looking at the latest generation of pest control.

Before we kept cats on the farm we had quite a few rattlesnakes, torantulas, and scorpions up close and personal.  The cats harrass them and sometimes eat these guys so they are worth their weight in catnip and then some!

We had a small rattlesnake last week in our front yard.  I went to step out of the truck and part of my brain said, “That is not a stick!”  For a 51 year old lady I can really jump. Had to crawl across the cab to exit.  At least the cats were entertained.  We poured goat milk for the crew and told the snake to high tail it if it knew what was good for it. The snake decided to find another place to hang out.

Posted: September 8th, 2009 under Chile Acres, cats.
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Here at Chile Acres our Mom Cats take turns kitten sitting for each other.  Here is about 1/2 of the mob!  The other 1/2 were busy playing jungle panther games in the flowers.  Cats keep scorpions, snakes, and other critters from invading the house and eating the feed or tack in the shed.  They are very valuable to the farm even if they keep assorted body parts under the house or bring partially eaten “presents” on the porch occasionally.

Posted: June 24th, 2008 under Bubbles the Goat and Friends, Chile Acres, cats.
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Moses is looking cute after having a lunch of canned food (you can see he stuck his whole head into the can). We are pretty sure he’s a “she” but it looks like the name is sticking. He/she still naps with his toy horse and while his step brothers and sisters are already big enough to live outside he gets to stay in the bathroom for now. We’ll keep him indoors as a house cat.

Posted: May 10th, 2008 under Bubbles the Goat and Friends, cats.
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Our friend Sharon called and said her neighbor had found a kitten in the dirt road that still had it’s umbilical cord attached.  She asked what she could do.  I immediately suggested goat milk.  I have raised all kinds of species of orphans with goat milk.  Well, the kittie came to school with Sharon and then home with me the next day.  I rubbed all the kitties together and distracted Momo with a can of tuna.  She accepted this little red kitten tiger with out comment! His eyes opened yesterday at one week and one day old and he doesn’t seem to notice that he is different.  Now, if people could only adopt this attitude!

Posted: April 15th, 2008 under Bubbles the Goat and Friends, cats.
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