This morning after I fed the cats, I took B out to the back pasture to run her a bit. She alerted on a clump of blackberry bushes that line our wooden fence. When I saw the alert, I groaned because it only meant one thing- cat in the bushes (more than likely injured). I put her on the stay command but she was so antsy inching her way to the bushes- I figured this probably couldn’t wait.

Thankfully, there was a pair of clippers nearby, so I started hacking at the bushes to get a path and calling softly to whatever animal was inside (though I knew it was a cat) I finally found the kitty- she is a calico short hair. She has been beat up by a tom and she is pregnant…sigh…

I have her inside the haybarn right now in a large new cage and will take her in on Monday to get her looked at, spayed and vaccinated. I will ask them to keep her for at least 3 days before I bring her back. Our haybarn isn’t that warm these days as there isn’t any hay out there at the moment.

I am glad I found her- she is bone skinny except for those protrusions on the sides of her belly which I hope is a pregnancy and not something ugly. We had a wild storm last night- high high winds, thunder lightning, hail it was totally nuts. It is supposed to be some of the same today. They are calling it the worst early winter storm to hit us in years.

So she is safe and not happy to be contained. I have tended to her wounds on her neck and flank and I am calling her Aimee-