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Waking out of a sound sleep, it
takes a moment to identify the
sound.
It’s not the steady hum that
sometimes echoes near the upper
reaches of the chimney, where a
colony of bumble bees (we think)
cohabits with us under the same
roof.
Nor is it the rolling clatter that
once, years ago, stirred me from a
sound sleep, a noise that took
some time and thought to identify.
We Anally speculated that a busy
body rodent had discovered a
stash of English walnuts drying on
the attic floor, and took to moving
them away down the walls, bowl
ing style.
We ultimately won the bowling
tournament with a strike of a
peanut-butter-baited mousetrap.
No, this is not that sound.
What it is I finally recognize is
Monk, our housecat, banging at
the bedroom door with her own
demanding, paw-driven, wake-up
call. Day will soon be breaking
and she wants breakfast Now.
One of the tradeoffs for the
never-caught-up schedule of farm
life is the space and the freedom to
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keep an assortment of pets
inside and outside. While some of
our dairy herd members are spe
cial pets, they don’t come carrying
a ball to be thrown or hop up on
the easy chair, meowing, late at
night to curl up in our laps.
Like anything worth having or
caring about, pets are cuddly but
sometimes inconvenient, loveable
but sometimes in the way, touch
ing but sometimes troublesome.
(Folks sometimes don’t think
about that, get tired of a pet and
dump it off along a road some
where to fend for itself—a beha
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to the former pet owner.
Our dozen or so bam cats are
pets, sort of, at least some of them.
A few are rather standoffish, will
ing to show up for cat food and
milk, but not wanting to be picked
up or petted. Like many farm pets,
the bam cats are expected to help
earn their keep by helping control
the inevitable mice and rats.
Solomon, the Sheltie, was
adopted from his former owner
because we were dog-less at the
time. His primary responsibility is
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tors and escaped heifers, a job he
takes (host'seriously so much
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Our single bantam had hatched
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She lost every one of the first
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the second and now produced this
third clutch. Two babies she had
with her, somewhere. These two,
which she had left behind, were
alive only because The Farmer
had found diem before the cats.
As pets go, our barnyard chick
ens hardly meet any of the criteria
for keeping them around.
Makes one wonder who is more
bird-brained the chickens or
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