Well —- here we go!

There are many, many things to tell you about on the farm.

The wild critters that live on the farm with us, you know, porky-pines,

badgers (those are some meannnnnnnnnnnnn, mean creatures),

foxes, birds of all nature and sorts, plus coyotes!

Mom and I are very leery about coyotes.

That sweet, silly, doesn’t have a brain cell in her head dog, assures me she has SMELLED them out of the farm when she is with Mom and Dad.  She informs me they smell DANGEROUS!

She is so right!

Mom says coyotes creep her out—their howls are lonesome, yippy, and kinda on the scary side.  Most of the time we hear them at night or early morning.  But once in a while, one will trot through in the daylight.

Let me tell you, when that happens, I am the fastest cat in the whole wide world!  I’ve been known to run so fast I’m just a blur heading toward the house.

BLUR!!!  Let me tell you.

Now if you’ve never heard a coyote listen to this …….yep.  Scary, right?

The other scary creature that lives with us is birds!  Nope, not those sweet, little sing-song things, or those big black carrion eaters, the crows, or the hawks.  Nope!  Not any of those birds.

Hawks and crows hang around the yard in the daytime.  They are pretty careful about staying high in the trees, sometimes sitting on a fence post in the corral, or on the roof of the buildings, but never really heading into the yard where Mom or Dad are usually working.

I’m talking about OWLS!!!

OWLS are more than frightening; they are even beyond scary.

They are terrifying, petrifying, horrifying, blood-curdling, over the top unnerving!

Because, you see, owls are like coyotes — they like to eat CATS!!!

And small, clueless, one brain-cell tiny dogs.

I’m a cat!

Yes, I am!  Mom says I am one bootiful boy!  Handsome! Down-right gorgeous.

Owls never let you know they are stalking you.  You can think you know where the owl is: sitting up on the dead branch of the willow tree, hooting, or on top of the power pole, talking to his/her mate sitting in the Cottonwood tree.

You MIGHT think owls are easy to keep an eye on, but you are wrong! Wrong! WRONG!

Owls are swift, silent, and deadly.

And owls ONLY come out at night—twilight to early morning light.  That’s the “Time of the Owl”.

I lost a good friend to an owl.  She was following her hooman in from getting the mail late one night when an owl swooped down right by her hooman Dad, picked her up in those giant talons and flew silently away.  Up, up into the sky somewhere.

Her hooman dad said the owl was so silent and quick, he didn’t even have a chance to save my kitty friend.

Don’t ever get me started on the stories about small dogs being airlifted up into the sky and taken to be owl lunch.  I’m sure you have ALL heard about tiny dogs, big birds, and snacks.  Of which, said dogs, always seem to be.

So—now you know about owls!

Yep, they are scary, scary, scary!