Ribh's D'Coopage

[MaryJanet]

What a video! So many happy hens living the high life.

 

[Ribh]

What a video! So many happy hens living the high life.

Yep. They were zipping about everywhere or digging huge holes for dust bathing. It was a lovely time. They all came to say hello & just hang with me.

 

[Ribh]

@Shadrach: this is the nest.
You can see the run & the edge of the coop structure. As I said, it's about 20 feet from the coop [less from the run]. She wasn't far from her tribe @ all, just outside the safety of the coop.

 

[BY Bob]

Violet has everyone outside already.

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I snapped a few pictures of the proud papa.
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This is just so lovely. I'm so happy for you and them.

 

[BY Bob]

Happy Caturday

 

[Ribh]

Happy Caturday

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Oh be still my beating heart! She is too adorable for words! [so is Davis too of course. ]

 

[RoyalChick]

The girls are usually very busy free rangers & they actually choose to spend quite a bit of time in their run areas.

I am sure I have said this before, but I love your set up and am not surprised they would want to spend time in th run area - it has so much to interest them.
And you crazy flock are so pretty.
That is a lovely video. Thank you for sharing.

 

[RoyalChick]

Happy Caturday

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Lovely!
I just read a research article about cats and bags, boxes etc. it was hilarious - first they proved what every cat owner knows, that cats love to get into boxes and bags
But they went further and showed cats love to be inside squares even if they are just chalk marks on the ground and even if the square is incomplete.
So if you mark just the four corners in chalk and leave the sides open - the cats come and sit in the middle just like they get in boxes and bags.

 

[Ribh]

Lovely!
I just read a research article about cats and bags, boxes etc. it was hilarious - first they proved what every cat owner knows, that cats love to get into boxes and bags
But they went further and showed cats love to be inside squares even if they are just chalk marks on the ground and even if the square is incomplete.
So if you mark just the four corners in chalk and leave the sides open - the cats come and sit in the middle just like they get in boxes and bags.

Yes I've seen those. Cats are nutters. What I want to know is WHY? Why do they sit in the middle of squares?

 

[RoyalChick]

Yes I've seen those. Cats are nutters. What I want to know is WHY? Why do they sit in the middle of squares?

Just because!
Isn’t that obvious?
The research of course didn’t address why, and was more focused on showing that a cat brain (like a human brain) will infer a square where none exist. We effectively draw the missing sides of the square in our minds eye when we see the corners. There is a word for that but I forget what it is.
The paper did speculate that because cats are both predator and prey animals that they are attracted to enclosed spaces in which they can hide and from which they can pounce.
That makes sense to me, but doesn’t explain their complete obsession with squeezing themselves into tiny boxes, bags, shoes, saucepans etc. (to name just a few of the items my own cats try to settle into).