My Rooster gave a hen directions on how to get over the fence!

[MagicPidge]

Beautiful story Deerfield Acres .. I have lost count of how many true stories I have read in which the animal picked the owner, not the other way around.

If you get a chance, can I recommend the following thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...nd-his-name-is-finn-update-with-videos-dec-31

Yep, it is now 41 pages but a lovely story and updates on Finn and how he picked his new owners and converted a ‘Cat Hater’.

When I met hubby, my cat, Syba, was 6 months old. The first time hubby came to the house Syba adopted him immediately and he has been hubby's cat ever since. Last time hubby went away for work when he got back I told him "Next time you go away you are either taking Me or Syba with you; do not leave me alone with him again!" Syba whinged, whined, sulked, acted up and misbehaved the whole time hubby was gone and kept giving me evil looks as if asking "what have you done with him?!".

Syba follows hubby around the house like a dog at heel; does everything hubby tells him, including sit and ignores every word that comes out of my mouth except "Dinner!" and, after all that, I still love Syba to bits and I do get the occasional cuddle

Wow! The only cat I've ever been close (by proximity only) to is my partner's cat. For some unknown reason this cat hated me from the moment I walked through the door. I lived there for 4+ months and only saw the cat maybe 3 or 4 times. All of those times he hissed at me violently then ran away. I get the feeling I just give off bad cat vibes.

 

[Deerfield Acres]

Beautiful story Deerfield Acres .. I have lost count of how many true stories I have read in which the animal picked the owner, not the other way around.

If you get a chance, can I recommend the following thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...nd-his-name-is-finn-update-with-videos-dec-31

Yep, it is now 41 pages but a lovely story and updates on Finn and how he picked his new owners and converted a ‘Cat Hater’.

When I met hubby, my cat, Syba, was 6 months old. The first time hubby came to the house Syba adopted him immediately and he has been hubby's cat ever since. Last time hubby went away for work when he got back I told him "Next time you go away you are either taking Me or Syba with you; do not leave me alone with him again!" Syba whinged, whined, sulked, acted up and misbehaved the whole time hubby was gone and kept giving me evil looks as if asking "what have you done with him?!".

Syba follows hubby around the house like a dog at heel; does everything hubby tells him, including sit and ignores every word that comes out of my mouth except "Dinner!" and, after all that, I still love Syba to bits and I do get the occasional cuddle

Oh, thanks so much for the recommend, I will check it out. I have a 17yr old who had a tonsillectomy last Friday and she's had the worst time of the other 3 of us who've had one. Yesterday she was just fed up with the pain and had a good silent cry. Her Lhasa has stuck like glue to her and did the sound effects for her, moaning and whining it up. Talk about sympathy pains.

I love your story of Syba, aren't creatures just fascinating, for those who actually notice?

 

[Deerfield Acres]

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Animals always like me and if they are hesitant I can usually win them over. That cat sounds like my brother's cat. That cat didn't like anybody. Maybe cats can have mood disorders like people. I use to have a cat I thought was schizophrenic. It couldn't tolerate being picked up with eye contact. If you didn't make eye contact, it was fine. It's sometimes hard for a person with schizophrenia to take in what you are saying, if you are making simultaneous eye contact. They have difficulty sorting and processing the input from their senses, is my understanding of it.

 

[MagicPidge]

Animals always like me and if they are hesitant I can usually win them over. That cat sounds like my brother's cat. That cat didn't like anybody. Maybe cats can have mood disorders like people. I use to have a cat I thought was schizophrenic. It couldn't tolerate being picked up with eye contact. If you didn't make eye contact, it was fine. It's sometimes hard for a person with schizophrenia to take in what you are saying, if you are making simultaneous eye contact. They have difficulty sorting and processing the input from their senses, is my understanding of it.

That's quite interesting. I've always just assumed that cat had me picked out as a "bird supporter" and that's why he hated me so much. He liked everyone else in the family and to some extent other visitors.

Next time I'm in Adelaide I may try again to make friends with him again. I'll avoid the eye contact and see how it goes

 

[John Henry Jr]

Hello Deerfield Acres! Well worth it.....they're so happy and playful bunch. They certainly form their own code of ethics, that's for sure, a very strict one when you watch closely. They're extremely communal. Rascals figured a way to wiggle their hineys through my gate/fence at the driveway! The group that I call, "us four and no more" gang! The original Rooster and his three doll babies! The hens that look like (as I posted earlier) Telly Savalis minus the lolly pop! Their feathers picked nearly clean by Mr. Lady's man. John Henry Jr. himself! He's got 'em so feathered, they're almost ready for the FRYING PAN!

I've bee a pastor of five churches, so I completely understand when you said you don't go to church any more! Some people calling themselves, "Christians" are merely church goers and there have been, "Hypocrites" in the church since Jesus walked the earth! I have told my congregation many times that, "You're no more a Christian by going to church than you are a Big Mac by going to McDonalds. (I know, this has nothing to do with Chickens, but....I just couldn't resist, been there done that) but rest assure that God hasn't given up on you or anybody else for that matter. As long as we have breath and heart beat we have hope. Churches can be a very discouraging place to be sometimes, unfortunately. Full of People!!!

But there are those who really walk the walk and talk the talk, you can tell them by their L O V E for others......and even love for creatures! (free of charge) God bless you. (just my personal viewpoint)

 

[John Henry Jr]

Hello Tiela, nice story, thanx. There are some, unfortunately, who shouldn't HAVE animals, children or anybody else for that matter. Everything and everybody around them is in touch with their inner rage. I have absolutely no time, as a man, for anyone who is abusive, period. To children, spouses, animals or even vegetation! I am by nature a quiet and peaceful man and love the company of others so minded. I have no respect whatsoever for that "man" who keeps his chickens in a cess pool chicken pen. I think someone should lock him into that pen with the chickens for a few days and give him a taste of his own medicine. My neighbors must laugh at me when my chickadees are running around the yard because I find myself just standing there with a big smile on my face, watching them just be themselves. It's the simple things in life that bring the most joy that are priceless. I don't need a whole lot of expensive, fancy "stuff" around me in order to be content. Proverbs states, "Contentment with Godliness is great gain" and I believe it. Maybe I'm just a simple minded fool to some, but at least I'm a happy one. LOL I go out to the roost and pick up some of those fine Jumbo brown eggs and say, "Thank you, ladies!" Goes around comes around.

 

[Deerfield Acres]

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Maybe that's why my brother's cat hated me!!! I love that -- you dirty, rotten, bird supporter!

It doesn't hurt to try again, but keep a good distance! I was never able to pacify that bird-supporter hating cat of my brother's!

Edited for misspelling.

 

[Deerfield Acres]

Hello Deerfield Acres! Well worth it.....they're so happy and playful bunch. They certainly form their own code of ethics, that's for sure, a very strict one when you watch closely. They're extremely communal. Rascals figured a way to wiggle their hineys through my gate/fence at the driveway! The group that I call, "us four and no more" gang! The original Rooster and his three doll babies! The hens that look like (as I posted earlier) Telly Savalis minus the lolly pop! Their feathers picked nearly clean by Mr. Lady's man. John Henry Jr. himself! He's got 'em so feathered, they're almost ready for the FRYING PAN!

I've bee a pastor of five churches, so I completely understand when you said you don't go to church any more! Some people calling themselves, "Christians" are merely church goers and there have been, "Hypocrites" in the church since Jesus walked the earth! I have told my congregation many times that, "You're no more a Christian by going to church than you are a Big Mac by going to McDonalds. (I know, this has nothing to do with Chickens, but....I just couldn't resist, been there done that) but rest assure that God hasn't given up on you or anybody else for that matter. As long as we have breath and heart beat we have hope. Churches can be a very discouraging place to be sometimes, unfortunately. Full of People!!!

But there are those who really walk the walk and talk the talk, you can tell them by their L O V E for others......and even love for creatures! (free of charge) God bless you. (just my personal viewpoint)

So funny about the gang of four! When my birds get up to mischief I call them naughty birdies and the kid's laugh at me.

Thank you for your kind words, it feels really good to hear them. I do know, without any doubt, that God would never and has never given up on me, even at a time when I hated him. That will never happen again. He finally convinced me. I know there are those that are just beautiful, extraordinary people in the church and I'm not saying everyone has to be one of those to be there. Not even the pastor, although people typically hold them to that kind of ridiculously high standard and when they fall short of expectations, it's like ducks on a junebug.

It's just that I've raised 8 children, am still raising 7 of them, with varying degrees of emotional issues from their early years in 3rd world institutions and it is a very stressful, emotionally draining task that takes every ounce of strength DH and I have to enter into their voids and experience their pain with them so that we can properly address and help heal the voids. Some of those can only be filled by God. I don't have one drop extra emotionally to deal with others who disapprove of international adoption, or having more than 2 children, or criticizing because we've taught them to respect other people. We've been raising kids for 16 years and now, all but one are teens and they understand fully when people say inappropriate things in front of them. We stopped attending church 3 years ago. I don't want them to judge God by the things people say and do at church and that seems to be something teens have a particularly difficult time sorting through.

Today's norm seems to be that children are disrespectful of adults and public places, and those who achieve straight A's only do so when parents have made their lives miserable. I actually had one church member arrive at the Dentist's office at the same time as my girls and me. She asked what they were missing in school, they told her, she responded that their grades were going to take a hit. We all found that odd but just smiled. Then she asked if any of them were planning to be hygienists. The girls politely answered "No." She said they should because they make a lot of money. One of the girls said "I hope to be a Pediatrician" and I responded that these three were all planning to go into medicine. She said "Oh well, you have to have the grades for that." As though it wasn't possible that the girls were intelligent enough. I responded "They are straight A students." She looked at me as though she was angry and said "Well, I guess if you beat them to death they will get straight A's." I was shocked, as usual. The girls looked at me in horror. I quietly responded "I don't think that has ever worked on any child. Straight A's is a personal choice and they get all the credit for it." That kind of continual negation of who they are is what I just have no energy for. Of course, I still go to the Dentist.

I go to the places I have to go and otherwise prefer to be at home with my family or spending time with my circle of friends.

From where they started as severely delayed children with very difficult emotional issues, nutritionally deprived, sensory deprived, these kids are amazing. Not perfect but miracles in progress. God has been successful with our children, from my perspective.

Let me say, we didn't adopt as missionaries, we weren't out to save their souls anymore than a birthparent's first thought is I'm going to have children for the purpose of saving their souls. We adopted because we wanted children, we felt we had a lot to offer them, not because they looked like a substitute mission field. If they find who we are valuable, they will follow the Foundation upon which that is built, or not. God gives them that choice, not us. I know you are aware of this, but most people just assume we think we're some kind of saints. We're just people doing the best we can and we suffer no delusions about whether we are better than others, we're not.

We do not receive any public assistance in order to raise our children. People really ask us these things and believe they are entitled to know, so they can add further to their disapproval! Even when they see how we live which is not pauper like. We're very careful to make it all work on one salary. For some reason they want to feel like we're unpatriotic, that we brought these "foreigners" to our country to drain it's resources. I had no idea that other people were like this prior to our adoptions.

Apologies to all for being off topic. I have a tonsillectomy patient at home, who was really sick prior to, so haven't been out of the house for a break with girlfriends for quite some time and am getting really chatty. I'll reign it in. I hope.

 

[lazy gardener]

I just stumbled onto this thread. Should have toddled off to bed long ago, after a night of very little sleep with sick child. But, couldn't stop reading. Incredible stories, all! Deerfield: I'm so very sorry you've faced such criticism and judgement. I do hope your child is now recovering well from her tonsillectomy and bleed. Also, hope that you can get the rest you need, and the fellowship you need.

JohnHenry: Welcome to BYC.

 

[MagicPidge]

Maybe that's why my brother's cat hated me!!! I love that -- you dirty, rotten, bird supporter!

It doesn't hurt to try again, but keep a good distance! I was never able to pacify that bird-supporter hating cat of my brother's!

Edited for misspelling.

Well, I'll let you know how it goes.