Black and White Barn Cat Gets a Hero's Greeting From Her Fellow Cows

Barn cats are a tale as old as time. They eat mice, keep the cattle company, and provide you with the ability to say that you have a barn cat. The color of the cat doesn't really matter... unless you have cows.

On Sunday, August 4th, one lucky black and white barn cat got to visit her fellow cows in the barn. Since she looks just like them, obviously, they greet her as if she's one of their own, and it's actually the most adorable thing in the world:

Bobbie Rae Myers is very lucky to have all of these cows, including the tiny one. It's amazing they all get along so well!

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Obviously, this cat and these cows are best friends, and that's amazing. They have no problem being around her, and they're properly restrained, so there is also no risk of her being injured. Barn cats are also usually very nimble, and if they need to, they will literally hop onto animals' backs and run across them.

Interestingly enough, Farm Cat (whose name actually seems to be Farm Cat) lives on a Tillamook affiliated dairy farm - if there is Tillamook dairy in your house, it means you might be closer to this sweet cat than you think! Tillamook works closely with a lot of small-owned farms in rural communities - even ones that have sweet bonus-cow-barn-cats.

Why Do Farmers Still Get Barn Cats?

It's 2024, guys. Surely there's a better solution to a potential rodent problem than barn cats - especially since there are lots of cats who would rather play with the cat than prey on it.

Barn cats aren't your traditional pet cat: they're not house cats you simply moved into a barn. Most of the time, barn cats are feral cats that have never known anything but the outdoors and hunting their prey, so they are very effective hunters. Additionally, the goal isn't necessarily to get them to eat the rodents, just get rid of them.

Farmers continue to get barn cats because they provide a natural method of handling a potential rodent problem. With barn cats, they don't need to be worried about harmful chemical poisons, traps getting caught on the livestock, or having to hunt down the rodents themselves. There are not really any "high tech" options that make catching vermin easy, so barn cats are genuinely the best way to go. Plus, they're adorable and can even befriend their fellow barn animals!