Alayne took these photos the other morning through the glass door of our bedroom. That's one of our barn cats, Skitter, on her usual morning perch scanning for something edible down below. The barn cats love coming out to this deck and sitting up there, because it gives them a great view from on high.…

I took this shot through the back door to the deck just before breakfast this morning. That's Skitter, one of our barn cats who moved out with us from Montana last year. Every morning she comes up to the deck when she hears us in the kitchen, then climbs up on to the railing to…

In what will be a family reunion of sorts, three-legged Molly is now on her way to her new home in Spokane, Washington — where she will be reunited with our own three-legged Bunny.  Yes, the same wonderful folks who adopted Bunny from us two years ago this month, Tia and Karl M., asked if…

All the barn cats have taken to the new location and have been enjoying themselves exploring the place.  True to form, they never venture far, always preferring to stay within sight of the buildings.  We've had some of these barn cats (Smoke and his sisters Smudge and Skitter) for nine years now.  But what I'm…

Angela N. from Michigan, who adopted blind Herbie last month, just emailed me some photos of the lovebug in his new home with his new friends.  Angela wrote, "He is so funny – you would hardly know he can’t see – he always seems like he is looking at things!  He runs up and down…

Tia and Karl M. in Washington state, who adopted beautiful little Bunny from us in 2008, sent us these new photos of the cat they now also call Bun Bun.  Tia wrote, "I've said this before, she has to be one of the most photogenic animals I have ever had, and again, this cat knows…

Now that the sun is starting to come up earlier in the mornings, the barn cats are often waiting on the hay bales on the south side of Lena's Barn to catch the first rays as the sun crests the ridge to the east of us.  But this winter, what's been happening with annoying frequency…

Yes, this is a bit of a problem.  That's the cat house roof with a thick, heavy sheet of snow and ice slowly sliding off and coming down on the cats' outdoor enclosure — and in the process, it's taking down the fencing material we had stretched across the top to keep The Resident Escape…

I walked into the cat house this morning to clean litter boxes and found this composition waiting for me.  That's one-eyed Lulu on the left, three-legged Molly in the middle, and wobbly Mink on the right.  This is a variation on the sardine theme I've posted about before.  As usual, blind Herbie wasn't interested in…