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I have always loved cats and have dedicated most of my adult life to rescuing felines. In fact, you could call me a passionate
ailurophile*.
The farm has allowed me to take in many cats and kittens that had no where else to go.
All the cats at the farm are free to come and go as they please. The risks that this type of management presents are, unfortunately,
unavoidable with our limited resources. Our dream is to have huge fenced paddocks for the cats and perhaps someday that will
be a reality but for now we do the best we can with the resources available. We have feeding stations in the barn, on the
back porch and in the house to insure that everyone has easy access to food. All cats have access to the house through a
kitty door that is always open for them. During the summer the majority of the cats love being outside but in the winter,
when roaming the farm isn't very much fun and also very cold, it gets very crowded in the house as our cat population is always
at least between 25 and 35 cats and kittens.
(Currently, our cat population is closer to 40 -- cat food donations are always appreciated !)
In the summer the favorite spots are in the barns and on the deck. In the winter the wood stoves are very popular with cats
sleeping all around them.
"What greater gift than the love of a cat." Charles Dickens
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Permanent Residents
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Adoptable Cats and Kittens
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Click on the above image to see our permanent feline residents
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Click on the above image to see the cats and kittens currently available for adoption
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All of our cats are spayed/neutered, wormed, vaccinated and get monthly flea treatments. Many are available for adoption
to the right home. If you are interested in adopting one of our cats please fill out and submit the adoption application.
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"A meow massages the heart." Stewart McMillan
This is a picture of several of the cats at feeding time. This feeding station is in the kitchen but there is another one
out in the barn and also on the back porch. As winter weather and cold approach the cats take advantage of the kitchen feeding
station much more than the two outside. In the summer they much prefer to be outside.
Since moving to Gemini, I've rescued more cats than I could ever count, and continue to do so. Caring for these cats, as
well as controlling the overpopulation of cats, are two subjects near and dear to my heart. If you share my passions, you
might like two web sites that I've recently found:
- The Barn Cat Lady: This blog site puts barn cats in a whole new light and gives them 'worth.'
- FeralStat : At Last! An Oral Contraceptive for Cats. Now feral cat colonies can be controlled without surgery. Those
who work to spay/neuter the ferals know that catching all of them is often luck and miracles. Those that are not caught continue
to reproduce and ad to the now horrific cat overpopulation problem. Feralstat could be the easy answer to the problem. Check
it out.
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* From
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day:
"ailurophile" \eye-LOOR-uh-fyle\ noun: : a cat fancier : a lover of cats
Although the word "ailurophile" has only been documented in English since the 1920s, ailurophiles have been around for thousands
of years. The ancient Egyptians were perhaps history's greatest cat lovers, pampering and adorning felines, honoring them
in art, even treating them as gods.
But the English word "ailurophile" does not descend from Egyptian; rather, it comes from a combination of the Greek word "ailouros,"
which means "cat," and the suffix "-phile," meaning "lover."
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