Gang of Kitties Sing Loudly to Man at His Door for Dinner

[Little Tich]

Source: Lovemeow

Every day when farmer Corey Karmann of Nebraska comes home from work, there is a gang of kitties waiting for him at his front door, greeting him and demanding food.

Karmann has acquired a gang of purrfessional mousers for his family farm. He gave them a home, and the kitties help him keep the mice at bay. When it's dinner time, they congregate by his front door.

"That's the farm i've grown up on, and live at now. We've always kept cats around. There is a lot of grain storage around, so that means a LOT of mice," Karmann told Love Meow.

Karmann hasn't seen a single mouse in years thanks to the wonderful work by their feline friends. "There's currently 12 cats that go back and forth between my house and my dad's house, which is about 150 yards away on the other end of the property."

The cats very much prefer living on the farm than inside their house as the kitties believe they are the real owners of the farm.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/user/karmanno

Read more: http://www.lovemeow.com/gang-of-kitties-come-to-man-for-dinner-1995572775.html

[riversedge]

1. Mousers are essential in my rural area.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. omg.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. NOW BRING US OUR FIGGY PUDDING

[Granny M]

4. I have one, just one....

I can cope with the evening feeding, but my kitteh overlord likes her breakfast between 4:30 and 5:30 in the morning. I swear she's as loud as this gang. I now keep her locked in with her box and dry food and water and cozy bed in the kitchen/family room. I need my ZZZZ's

[MarianJack]

5. Our two kitties can be almost as loud!

PEACE!

[malaise]

6. Yep - look after the cats and there will be no mice or rats

We learned that decades ago.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

7. K&R

[LWolf]

8. Great story.

There's an issue this article didn't address, though.

My acres have way too many rodents. When I bought the place, there was a large colony of feral cats in the barn; the former owner encouraged them to manage the rodents, feeding them in the barn. They were under the house, in the barn, all over the place. I started trapping, spaying/neutering, and re-releasing, after trapping two different litters of kittens, which were socialized and re-homed. I continued to feed them in the barn.

By the end of the first year, without reproducing, they were all gone; coyote, owl, eagle, and hawk bait.

It's good that he keeps them socialized so that he can keep them vetted. What's the turn-over rate? Does his farm have no predators that take cats?

My rodent population is too large, but I keep my pet cats indoors for their own protection.