Re: [AlpacaTalk] Re: Questions about barn cats

 

Heather makes a good point - IF THEY CAN BE PERSUADED TO STAY IN OR AROUND THE BARN.  When we adopted our ferals, we kept them in a few large crates inside the barn for a few weeks.  They had a litter pan, and food and water served to them in the crate.  By the time we released them, they were used to the sounds, sights and smells of the barn and it was their "home."  I would imagine that if you just put the cats into the barn that they would take off for "parts unknown."

 

It has to be a large crate and a small litter pan and it's a pain to keep clean, but we only had one adoptee do a bunk on us after the initial confinement.  We would occasionally see him sneaking into the barn for food or water, but he never took up residence there like the others.  He was probably better off out here than on the streets of DC, anyway.

 

Cindy Aldrich

Shepherd's Purse Alpacas

Mount Airy, Maryland

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