A Tale of 2 Kitties

We are not cat people. We never had dogs that would let us have cats. My Aunt and Uncle who live here on the place tried the cat thing many times. Sometimes it ended ugly! I did have a house cat once for about 5 years. It was an experience I'll never forget.

I got a phone call a couple days ago from the guy next door to my work. I've known this guy for 25 years or so. He said he had some barn kitties and were any in my family interested. He said the momma cat was a good mouser. I'm thinking that it would be a good thing for the barn. Mice are always a problem there. I told him I had to talk to my dad since it's his barn.

Dad and I talked. He said it was fine but they'd be my cats and he didn't want anything to do with them. I wasn't gonna take them, but the neighbor man called the next morning and asked what the verdict was. I said we'd take 2.

So, I stopped by on my way home from work and got two of the cutest little yellow and white kitties you've ever seen! They are friendly, which is different than a lot of barn cats, and adorable! We put them in a cage he had and he sent me on my way with a little bag of food.

I took them down to the barn and put the cage in the back of a buckboard, gave them some food and water, and told them I'd be back later.

Sis#3 and her family were out for supper last night. At about 8 we got finished eating and I told the kids we better go check on the new kitties. Dad said, "Can y'all feed down there?" Ok, no big deal. So we all fed the horses first then let one kitty out and let it run around for a little bit. I thought that if we let one out at a time they'd stay around. However we couldn't catch the thing. I pulled the other one out of the cage and handed it to Hoss thinking maybe the first one would come closer. Nope!

In the middle of all this Dad comes down with a load of feed. He then decided that since we had some extra help we should catch one of the mules so he could trim her feet. Here's the thing, Gumdrop(that's the mule) hasn't been haltered in at least a year. She's young and a little on the wild side. We got her caught, but she didn't get her feet trimmed. It was nearly dark, the kids were running around, Hoss is still trying to catch the runaway kitty, and the mule is pulling back and trying to kick Dad. She's now in solitary confinement!

I asked Hoss what we should name them. He said Ava. I said, "What about a cowgirl name?" He said one could be a cowgirl name and the other one was Ava. Why? Apparantly, there was a girl in his class named Ava. Oh my! I told him I thought we should see if Buzz wanted to name the other one. I called Sis#2 last night to find out what Buzz might want to name the other girl kitty. He said Emma. Emma is the youth minister's daughter and Buzz says they're gonna get married. He's 6 for crying out loud!

So, Ava and Emma were glad to get out of the cage this morning and run around a little bit. Thankfully, I was able to catch both of them and put them back!!!

We'll see how it goes tonight!!!