Posted by:
Ptolemy (---.range81-152.btcentralplus.com)
Given the subject title and the fact that this thread has so far been almost entirely pro-cat I'd just like to redress the balance a little by reporting on my various chicken activities.
Willow (the Welsummer hen) sadly got cornered by a wasp (she's very afraid of them and, when I found her, was running to and fro between the corner of the henhouse and the fence unable to grasp the simple fact that had she instead walked quickly straight ahead she'd no longer be cornered and moreover the wasp would probably have lost interest in the game anyway).
Marcia and Judy the two Marans are both broody and show no sign of emerging from their respective dark corners for some while yet (probably after 14 days when they finally figure out the eggs they're sat on aren't actually going to turn into anything other than a very bad smell).
Margaret the Warren is sulking again, having had the hosepipe turned on her last evening (entirely in fun; she failed to see the joke however). The rest of them meanwhile are happily scratching around in the orchard, or were when I last checked a few minutes ago.
I should perhaps add that all of them are named after the various ladies the writer Richard Brautigan dedicated his books to (just in case you were wondering, which you probably weren't but hey)