Gebhardt Enterprises

The Birds and the Bee...I mean the cats

I have 6 Cockatails and2 Parakeets.  3 males and 3 females.(kept seperated) (Cockatails)

My three cats are Kissy Kat, She is a black silkie.  She is almost 9 years old.  She acts like a mean hissing spitting even tho she is declawed meanie, but deep down she is a sweet heart.  Her favorite pass time is to go and catch shrews and bring them to her person(Marannda).  It is above her station to mess with the birds.  She doesnt pay any attention to them.  She has better things to do.  Charlie is a  grey striped Mangolian Mountain Cat of some kind.  He is 2 years o ld and almost as big as my ausies (45 lb dogs)  He is about 12 to 15 lbs.  He likes to make the male parakeet scream and panic by just sitting next to the cage.  He will bat the cage to irrate Lucy the wench enough to make her bite the bars.  I guess she thinks she can take him on.  Other wise he leave them alone as well.  He prefers to catch me wild rabbits and bring them home and leave them on my porch.  He likes to help the aussie's heard the chickens when they get out of the coop.  I honestly think this cat thinks he is a dog.  When the dogs bark outside and he is in side he growls and runs for the door to be let out.  He doesnt use the kitty pan he prefers to go out side with the other dogs. I mean with the dogs.

Daytona is a year old.  He is a bangle cat.  The most affectionate cat I have ever come acrossed.  He also is my trouble maker with the birds.  The reason we named him Daytona because he is a fast little bugger.  He can catch a mouse in mid jump.  The shrews and mice around here never see what hits them when Daytona is on the prowl.  Last year when Daytona was about 11 weeks old an Owl picked him up and tried to have him for dinner.  The Owl started with the tail and sliced open Daytona's Right inner thigh muscle on his back leg.  It took us a week to catch daytona.  We got him to the vet.  (He was a feral cat(from someone elses barn)  They had to amputate his tail to the 2nd vertebrea  (I call him Daytona the tailless wonder)  Daytona loves the taste of birds.  He got ahold of my breeder Cockatails 3 weeks ago.  So I have trained Daytona to sleep in a kennel at night so he doesnt mess with the birds. 

I keep my cats around because they are very good mousers and they keep me laughing.