It is common to have the Wiley wild barn cat come to a truce with you, can get to the point they allow a light petting, but don't pick me up or try to pin me..... We will come when its feeding time, but kinda stay more than arms length the rest of the day.
Those can be some of the best barn cats ever. They hunt, stay out of the way. Perfect.
We seem to have 6-20 barn cats around at any given time. Some get very friendly to the point they are allowed to sneak in the house for an hour or so a day, others never tame down. Depends on their personality.
We've got a female, must be 6 years old, she comes at feeding time and wants to be held, grabs onto my wife over the shoulder like a kid, purrs, loves a neck rub. Sweetest kitty you'd know! Never had kittens, only comes to meal time about half the days, see her mousing all the time the few times you see her, she will visit the yard in front of the house but doesn't sit there. Won't go under a vehicle, runs away when i start a tractor. I really don't know where she nests for the night even after all these years. What a heck of a cat for the farm!
If they are kittens, the younger they are and the more your daughter works on thrm, the more likely they will become tame.
I didn't look at the other replies, some folk are kinda harsh on cats, I'm sure you got a lot of extreme replies along with others. So it is. I like cats, they make you earn friendship, and do a good job earning their keep on the farm. I've mentioned before, we had a 1 year old Tom barn cat came home with a busted broken tail, I spent $400 on him which was foolish, but he spent the following 10 years on 'his' hunting route around the ditch, getting striped gophers (ground squirrels). For decades dad and then I would lose 1/4 to a 1/2 acre of corn along that ditch to the gophers, and then weeds would grow in and just make a mess of that ditch bank. Terrible. Well that Tom cat cleaned that area out, I get great corn crop there. 1/3 acre of corn, ten years, 150bu an acre, that cat netted me 450 bu of corn in his life.
Paid me back the vet bill 3x.
Got a combine, had $1400 of damage to the wiring, from mice and rats. I have 4 cats living in new shed, no mice damage now. Yea the cats leave their own issues in the gravel, but its a cheaper trade off!
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