Shiny black eyes peek out from
a narrow gap between the two
walls.
Slowly, I stretch my hand in
toward the eyes, which retreat
even further back into the sha
dows. And though they can't be
seen with a quick glance, other
pairs of eyes watch this action.
While Tiger, our mother cat is
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cuddled, her five kittens harbor
leu friendly feelings for us human
types who invade their hiding
places around the bam. It took se
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glimpse of the litter, which she
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stonge floon.
As they outgrew that nest. Tiger
moved her kittens to the feed alley
between the original front of the
bam and the cattle frees tall area,
which was added on to the barn
several decades ago. When the
dairy herd moved to the new stall
bom, the old frees tall section be
came overnight and bad weather
shelter for the bred heifers.
They’re out on pasture most of the
time, so the only other critters
usually sharing the kittens’ play
ground are die noisy roosters
which, well, roost there.
Other weaned calves and young
heifers are housed in nearby pens
in this young-stock-raising area.
Trying to catch glimpses of the
elusive four orange and one black
kittens has become a sort of game
for me, while doing the feeding
and bedding chores. But one look
at this dangerous, intrusive person
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stalking them and the kittens zip
into hiding.
The narrow, dark gap between
the bank bam foundation and the
old milkhouse addition is prob
ably their favorite hideaway. Only
about four inches wide, the open
ing makes an ideal hallway to the
outside for the furry babies, to run
and play tag through, as well as a
refuge from pesty farm wives
feeding heifers nearby.
As the kittens have grown, so
have their appetites, outstripping
Tiger’s ability to satisfy their
hunger with milk. So she hunts for
them for hours every day, stalking
sparrows and prowling the pond’s
cattails for tender frogs. Even that
extra meat on the table isn’t
enough, so mother and kittens get
a supplemental snack of milk
when I feed the calves.
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After a couple of weeks of
sneaking up to the wide milk dish
only some time after it’s been fill
ed, the kittens are now growing
either hungry or confident enough
to edge closer when the milk
bucket shows up. This morning,
they even allowed me to gently pet
them while they lapped up break
fast
Growing almost as tame are the
three, pudgy baby squirrels romp
ing through the maple trees behind
the house. Of course, they should
be pudgy. With their mother, they
chow down several pounds of
com and sunflower seeds every
week, plus what they bury in my
flower containers scattered around
the porch and patio.
If we step outside and disturb
their chores, the bushy-tails hang
upside-down on the tree trunks,
cussing at us in irate squirrel lan
guage. I can't speak it—but I get
the message.
Tamest of all this year’s baby
critters are the six Canada goose
youngsters. They’re now in that
awkward adolescent stage, with
smooth, brown-feathered backs
and lengthening black tailfeathers,
but their necks and heads still cov
ered with the fuzzy beige-colored
down of infancy.
As soon as they spy one of us,
they begin paddling in our direc
tion. And, if food isn’t forthcom
ing they’ll yank on the shoestrings
of our sneakers, dangling down at
their eye level from the pond’s
wooden pier.
So along with our hungry bo
vine mouths to feed, we have kit
tens, squirrels and goslings lined
up daily, expecting handouts.
Maybe we could list them as de
pendents on our income tax?
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