Show us your barn cats!!!

[Kendra]

Rough life of a barn cat!

Pippy and Squeak napping in the barn office.

[breburtch]

Hmm don't currently have a barn or barn cats but tomorrow I'll add some pics of the barn cats from barns I've worked/boarded at in the past(If thats ok with everyone that is)

[nrhareiner]

I have cats but they are not barn cats as they carry EPM and I will not go through that expense again. The cats live either in the house or are in at night and go out for a few hours a day. They are like dogs. Call their names and they come running.

Heidi

[Gids_mama]

all my kittys names
absolute, esto, stormy, snuggles, scotch, mudflap, toby, annie, gabby, cali, mozart, bach, pirate, jake, fat louie, wiggles, hamilt, panther, ospray, beethoven

[Kendra]

Gids mama ~ you have the prettiest barn cats I have ever seen!

Love the butt warmer

NRHAreiner ~ our barn cats have all their shots, are fed a healthy diet and have a cat door into the barn office so they can get out of the cold/heat. Usually they are curled up on the couch in the office. The adults are fixed and one of my boarders is a tech at a cat hospital.

All are drop offs. They know their names and come when they are called. Actually I never have to call them as they are always under foot

[nrhareiner]

That is all fine and well but you can not vacinate a cat against EPM. So be carful. Make sure your horses are vacinated for EPM. Not 100% sure but will help. If a horse gets full blown EPM it will cost about $1000+ to treat.

Heidi

[Gids_mama]

Originally Posted by Kendra

Gids mama ~ you have the prettiest barn cats I have ever seen!

Love the butt warmer

NRHAreiner ~ our barn cats have all their shots, are fed a healthy diet and have a cat door into the barn office so they can get out of the cold/heat. Usually they are curled up on the couch in the office. The adults are fixed and one of my boarders is a tech at a cat hospital.

All are drop offs. They know their names and come when they are called. Actually I never have to call them as they are always under foot

Thank you very much..haha she is a very good butt warmer..and she sleeps everynite on my butt, belly, back, or chest..haha shes a cuddlebug..

yeah i didnt have any barn cats when i moved here then someone dropped of three preg. females..ahhhhh haha i love them though

Originally Posted by nrhareiner

That is all fine and well but you can not vacinate a cat against EPM. So be carful. Make sure your horses are vacinated for EPM. Not 100% sure but will help. If a horse gets full blown EPM it will cost about $1000+ to treat.

Heidi

My horse has EPM..and with all the reading ive done and talking to my vet and my mom being a vet tech.. a cat cannot pass epm onto another cat or horse..its passed through possoms to horses from possoms to other animals but not from horse to cat or horse to horse or cat to cat...
and it is expensive to treat..we didnt find out my horse had it til we had an emergency visit because he was having an attack..almost lost it..ddangerous deadly and horrible disease

[Kendra]

Originally Posted by nrhareiner

I have cats but they are not barn cats as they carry EPM and I will not go through that expense again. The cats live either in the house or are in at night and go out for a few hours a day. They are like dogs. Call their names and they come running.

Heidi

I just curious about the difference between your cats roaming during the day and sleeping in the house at night and my barn cats roaming around in the day and sleeping in the barn office at night???

[Gids_mama]

Originally Posted by Kendra

Gids mama ~ you have the prettiest barn cats I have ever seen!

Love the butt warmer

NRHAreiner ~ our barn cats have all their shots, are fed a healthy diet and have a cat door into the barn office so they can get out of the cold/heat. Usually they are curled up on the couch in the office. The adults are fixed and one of my boarders is a tech at a cat hospital.

All are drop offs. They know their names and come when they are called. Actually I never have to call them as they are always under foot

if exposed to the disease a cat can get emp no matter time of day..
just saying..
all my cats stay out side and in barn but we get possoms that sometimes find there way in and weve set up things to try and keep them away.. but if you wanna decrease your chances of getting epm i suggest making sure they cant get into cat food so they arent coming in contact with the cats and keep garbage cans locked up..what time of day they are in and out sint going to amke that big of a difference..

[Kendra]

Originally Posted by Gids_mama

if exposed to the disease a cat can get emp no matter time of day..
just saying..
all my cats stay out side and in barn but we get possoms that sometimes find there way in and weve set up things to try and keep them away.. but if you wanna decrease your chances of getting epm i suggest making sure they cant get into cat food so they arent coming in contact with the cats and keep garbage cans locked up..what time of day they are in and out sint going to amke that big of a difference..

Exactly!

NHRAreiner ~ I'd love to see pics of your cats!

[Gids_mama]

nrha reiner i would also love to see pics ill try and post more pics of my guys too

[nrhareiner]

New resurch I read in Americas horse states that Cats can and do carry the protazoa that causes EPM.

My cats do not eat out side even though they do think they are horses. I would gues that they could carry it and pass it but that would take them eating birds and such like Oposum do and they do not or at least not very often.

I will see if I can find some picture of them off my other hard drives. As a pro photographer I have so many images I do not keep many on the hard drives on the comupters. They would fill up too fast.

Heidi

[Bandit]

My horse had EPM and the research I found also coincides with Gids_mama. 'Possums is the species that sheds it in its feces and passes it on to the horse. Cats, skunks, racoons and armadillos are intermediate hosts and the protozoa resides in the muscle of these animals. Its not shed in the feces like the possum. Now it can be passed from cat to possum or racoon by them eating the muscle tissue of road kill. But horses don't eat road kill so they only get it from the one source that sheds it in its feces and into the pasture - the 'possum.

[nrhareiner]

I am just going by the latest resurch that was reported in a respected magazen. I know what the old resurch states as I too have had a horse with EPM cost the insurance company over $4K to treat him.

Heidi

[Bandit]

Here are some photos:


Here is Puddles. I rescued her out of our pool about 3-4 years ago, but is one of the cats that dissapeared this summer:


Here is Reeces:


Tortie:


Dusty:

[Gids_mama]

hope you enjoy..

[nrhareiner]

Here is a picture of one of the bros putting Libby in her place or maybe giving her a hug???? Not sure which.

Heidi

[Kendra]

I LOVE Reeses!!

NRHAreiner ~ that pic made me laugh out loud

[nrhareiner]

That cat still dose that to her. She loves the cats and give them kisses and when they are tiered of it they just hit her and she stops.

Heidi

[Crookedblaze]

My 3 barn cats crack me up, they all want to be indoor cats. We have 2 younger unnamed black ones, and a 15 year old orange tabby named Martin that i just love.

My black ones...







And I can't find the pictures of Martin...I'll have to keep looking!