It’s hard to know if Minnie misses Mother, our other barn cat who vanished after four days on the new farm. I think she took off for some other place, and I hope she got there. Minnie shows no signs of missing anything, she patrols the farm, the pasture, the barn and the back porch. She has become more assertive and outgoing and has picked up Mother’s habit of following us around when we move around the farm. She loves hanging out with the chickens, and sometimes I think she thinks she is a chicken.