Signal Hollow Farm

Where the Animals Rule the Roost

MEET OUR FRIENDS

CANINES
Delilah
Juno

FELINES
Amelia
Lucille
Stella

GOATS
Forrest
Haven
Ivan
Jesse
Oak

LLAMAS
Giaco
Inca
Mica
Saunders
Waldo

INFORMATION
Goats
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The Latest Scoop

Cats, Cats, and more Cats

July 11, 2008
We've decided that Aurora, one of our "feral" cats, needs to become a house cat. She shows little fear of going to the road, and this week she walked into our dogs' fenced yard! Eek. So we're working on introducing her to the house.

March 14, 2008
"Melvin" (the orange & white cat below) has been trapped, neutered and vaccinated (TNR). He stayed away for about a week after I released him but I've seen him lately so I know he is fine. The female ferals seem quite content and I see them around the barns every day. The tortie (left) is really quite tame but I'm torn about separating her from her family by bringing her indoors. Her sister, the gray tabby will get as close as ten feet from us and has even given me eye kisses (slow blinks) but will not get any closer. Mama cat, the calico/white is quite feral but less skittish lately when we are in the yard, same for her feral daughter, the black & white who looks just like Stanley. I made a cat box for them based on the instructions from Forgotten Felines of Forsyth but I think they still prefer to sleep on the cushions in the barn.

The goats have started to shed their undercoats and the grass is greening, despite several nights of frost last week. Oak has been dividing his time between Forrest and the big herd. The leaves are budding and the birds are singing!

Update: February 10, 2008
We finally caught "mama cat" and she has been spayed and vaccinated, with the help of Forgotten Felines of Forsyth. Now we have 4 neutered feral cats living in and around the barns. A couple of tom cats have been making an appearance as well, and last week I trapped one (aka "Stanley") who bears an almost identical resemblance to one of the kittens, and had him neutered and vaccinated too . . . of course that may be the last we see of him! The pretty orange and white cat to the right is next in line . . .

(Left: "Stanley")

January 2008

It started as one cat occasionally spotted around the barns. . . and in the fall of 2007 three kittens appeared! Forgotten Felines of Forsyth has been helping us trap and spay the feral cats now living at Signal Hollow. We are trying to catch the mother cat, she is a wily one.

The goats seem to have adjusted to the not-so-mysterious disappearance of James, the mini-Nubian cryptorchidic goat who moved to Signal Hollow last summer. The onset of cold weather brought out James' bucky behavior and he started pestering Jesse to no end. So James is now living the good life at a nearby farm, with other mini goat bucks. His humans tell us that he is enjoying his new home. James is pictured below, looking at Forrest.