Boghadair Ratcatcher!
photo by tyler of goingslowly.com
posted by Jenna at 9:33 AM
Friday, February 22, 2013
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45 Comments:
Yes!! Can I send Boghadair my two cats for some lessons? :)
Good kitty! (And such a handsome little man, too!)
Oh, well done!!
Well done!
Good job, kitty-cat!
Wow! Good for him. He is officially a farm cat. Earns his living. That rat is nearly as big as he is.
That cat deserves at treat of catnip! What a good boy!
Dang! That's a big 'un! Way to go Bo!
He is earning his keep!
Wow! That rodent's almost as big as he is!
Dang! That big ol' rat puts ours to shame!! Good job kitty!
Good Kitty!
Yeesh that's a big rat! Reminds me of the time my mother-in-law's cat carried a LIVE rabbit into her house. That was a commotion, to say the least!
wow he's getting so big! turning into a handsome grown up kitty!
I had a small calico cat who at the same time as she caught weasels invading my old and not very tight farmhouse used to lean up against the clear plastic walls of out two pet rats' cage with them directly asleep on the other side and peacefully snooze the evenings away in mutual comfort! Her best hunting morning resulted in 5 dead mice lined up on the kitchen floor - you've got yourself a keeper there! Way to go Boghadair!!
Atta boy! That's good cat...and a big rat! It's probably been evading you for some time!
BOG is a Beast! Good form!
Good form Bog...good form
You go Bogh! Good boy!
Great photo of a good mouser! Is he bringing the rat to you to share?
We used to live in an old farmhouse that had rats the size of small dogs. They were so big those gigantic rat traps would only knock them out for a minute and they could pull their heads out and we'd have to finish the job! They were nasty! Way to go Bo!!!!!!
Good kitty!
Well done, young man!
My 14 y/o son, upon hearing that the cat in the photo is only ~4 months old: "Our cats are slackers."
Me: "We don't have any rats."
Son: "Well, that's a good thing, then."
Good boy Bogh!!! He is bringing you a present Jenna. Lol.
Awesome, awesome, awesome!!! I have me a killer cat too and they are worth their weight in GOLD when you live on a farm. Go Boghadair!
that's awesome. what a great hunter he is!
Wow! Did he eat it or just proudly display it for you?
That is awesome. I once had a bad-ass-son-of-a-barn-cat who would mew at the door until I opened it and praised him for his catch. Then he would start with the head and munch away until nothing was left but the tail and some random organ.
While I'm very surprised you have rats, that is one useful kitty. My MeCoon used to keep the farmette clear of mice, moles, voles, chipmunks and squirrels.
I have never seen a rat in my house, not in the living spaces ever - nor the kitchen. But they sure are in teh barn and around the rabbit and chicken feeders and the barn is less than 30 feet from my kitchen!
Bogh actually ripped this rat out of the attic crawlspace. We were playing Catan two rooms away and there he was, having just jumped down from the whole in the ceiling he had been staring at all night. Tyler grabbed the camera and chased him into the bathroom!
I bet you're wondering? Ceiling?! There's an old hand-hewn beam in the kitchen Bogh climbs like a tree. There is a 3 inch hole to the attic at the top, that he can't fit through but a rat can. He waited there and then WACK! got em!
yeah! thats a good boy!
Good for you Jenna. My ex, Mark had 3 house-kitties and a feral he'd tamed, named Precious. One night, Precious brought him a present--a very live mouse. She brought it in the house and spit him out on the floor of the living room. Grumpy looked at Mark -- "Surely you don't expect ME to deal with vermin in the house"
Thomasina said ---"Eeeek! A Mouse!" and ran like hell.
Beebee--Mark's spherical tuxedo kitty did her best, making laps for 15 min until she collapsed, panting in front of him and then had to have a lie-down. Precious smirked. "Incompetents". From then on, she brought only dead mice into the house.
Good for you Jenna. My ex, Mark had 3 house-kitties and a feral he'd tamed, named Precious. One night, Precious brought him a present--a very live mouse. She brought it in the house and spit him out on the floor of the living room. Grumpy looked at Mark -- "Surely you don't expect ME to deal with vermin in the house"
Thomasina said ---"Eeeek! A Mouse!" and ran like hell.
Beebee--Mark's spherical tuxedo kitty did her best, making laps for 15 min until she collapsed, panting in front of him and then had to have a lie-down. Precious smirked. "Incompetents". From then on, she brought only dead mice into the house.
Quite possibly the best farming pic I've seen in ages :)
Whoa, that thing's HUGE! It's as big as the cat. Good boy! Makes my skin crawl to think something that big is in the house.
The fact that he knew it was there and waited for it proves that Bo is really committed to his job! Way to go, FarmCat!
What a good boy - earning his keep!
Wow! He is one superb hunter! :D
Wow!! Good boy!
Good boy, Bo!
Also, I love Catan.
Whoa! That's especially impressive given the rat's size in comparison to Boghadair's. Good job, kitty! I bet he's bragging to Yeti about this... :D
what a good boy he is. Good cat!
You got a keeper! (The cat not the rat lol)
I always wondered if you got rid of them in your barn after you posted that story a long time ago. And thank you for clarifying this was in your attic not your kitchen, I was getting the willies.
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