

Big Coon was the Mother of three, she would bring her kids to the barn at dinnertime and dine with the Barn Cats. This was allowed after I spent a whole evening explaining the table manners required to join the Barn Family. She was kind enough to agree to my terms, taught her children my rules and they never bothered their dinner mates again. All the coons would wait in the tree outside the Barn each evening when I fed. After setting out piles of cat food onto the many plates, I could hear them come down from the tree and sneak into the Barn through a hole in the corner.