We hopefully have a new little cat coming to live with us next weekend. He’s nearly blind, with one eye. They think he can sense light and dark with his eye, but not see with it. His other eye, I believe, was removed when he was a kitten. He is about the same age as Pirata, so hopefully they will get on well.
I think a rat is sharing the chicken’s food. Since we no longer have Fibs, who used to treat the back yard as her domain (and she treated the chicken house as her palace), the rats are getting a free run. We may consider a barn cat – but we still need to think about that a bit more.