Minnie is a strange animal, even by cat standards. She is highly verbal, talking to us all day. She is changing, getting more comfortable out of doors in the summer, she comes in at night to cuddle with Maria but she is happy to hang around outside now, more than six months after her leg was amputated. She hides under Maria’s studio, she has her favorite spots in the field, where she hunts and in the pole barn. She has always loved chickens and they have always loved her.

Minnie spent the first months of her life at the first Bedlam Farm with chickens in the big barn, she still hangs with them. Today I came into the barn and she and the white hen were napping together up in the hay stack.