It's time to wake up this thread Sailorsaint. It's been sleeping too damned long.
There is a cat. There has actually been two cats, and nothing has been resolved about it. The Bobcat kitten who was there in January came and went. and now there is an American Forest Cat in her place. Forest cats are domestic cats who have reverted to the wild. Around here they are cats who have reverted to the wild several generations ago.
There have been Calico forest cats living in my barn for many cat generations. They belong there.
This cat is a very nice looking American forest cat, that she's a Calico means she's a female. Calico means female. She's amazing for just a tiny little kitten a few weeks old. When I see her out in the yard she looks like a great big super cat. But when I see her eating the food I've set out in food bowl I discover that she's not a giant cat like she looks in the field, she's just a small tiny (cute) Calico kitten.
So I feed her. She needs to grow up big and strong to live in my barn. Coyotes and wolves live here. Bears, lyons, and goats as well.
Goats are a big problem for small kittens. I take the side of the kittens and blame the goats. BTW- deer are goats.
Deer are nice, .but they are goats. If you have ever tasted deer, but have not ever tasted goat, they taste the same.