Today is #NationalPetDay on Twitter. What better way to celebrate the friendship and love they give us by posting some pictures of my cats and chickens.
I don’t think I could live without a cat in my life. They are wonderful creatures that only trust you when you deserve it. If you truly love a cat it will reciprocate and be your friend forever.
Always respect a cat’s privacy
Mess with a cat and be prepared to face the consequences.
Ignore a cat at your peril.
Happy Nation Pet Day everyone.
In my previous post, you can see it here:
https://nicolajmcdonagh.wordpress.com/…/can-cats-and-chick…/
I talked about my cat Kimi and how she has bonded with our new hens.
I also mentioned that the chickens are kept away from our other cats, who aren’t as easy going as Kimi. Well, one of our feline friends got sight of our poultry for the first time and had a rather strange reaction.
Mind you, if I were the size of Storm, the cat above, I would be a little frightened by these rather large birds with their massive feet and intense gaze.
Just as well they have separate gardens to hang out in. Calypso and her brother, Rasky, have a more relaxed approached to these big birds.
On another note, my bee garden is a success. It looks so pretty and is attracting all kinds of bees and other fertilising insects. It is also kept well away from the marauding chickens.
Buck-buckaww folks!
They are lovely creatures, making cute clucking sounds and pottering about the garden, they love nothing more than to dig, eat, lay eggs, follow us around and, oh yes, hang out with our cat Kimi.
Now, we have several other cats, who live in a separate enclosed garden well away from our nearly flightless fowl, and we would never allow them near these vulnerable birds. But Kimi? Well, she is different. Everyone likes Kimi.
Kimi is unique. She loves other creatures, especially other cats – except for Katya.
They have a pact. ‘I don’t bother you, you don’t bother me and we’ll get on just fine.’
We were tentatively sure that Kimi would be okay with the hens. She had a stroke a couple of years ago and still can’t get around all that well. She is also deaf and at thirteen, is getting a little bit old, so we didn’t envisage her pouncing on our birds.
What we didn’t expect was how the chickens reacted to her.
As you can see, they seem quite smitten.
I guess the answer to my question is, yes, cats and chickens can get along. It all depends on the cat.
Nikki McDonagh - author and photographer 