Neighborhood Kitty

Belle is a frequent visitor to Red Door Coop.  She lives just across the street from us.  She is a hunter, as evidenced by the mice and snakes she leaves on her owner's stoop, so I would never trust her with the chickens.  However, the time Belle spends at our house is focused.  Mice.  There is a mouse in the compost and another still hanging out in the coop.  Probably more than one, I know.  But we like to think it is just one in each spot.  Belle will lay next to the compost or one corner of the coop for hours, totally ignoring the chickens, waiting for the mice.

A while back, Papa Hen ripped out the floor of the coop and rebuilt it to keep the mouse out.  It seems that the mouse won.  Look what we discovered last weekend.  Mouse hole.

This weekend, Papa Hen fought back, tearing out the floor again and making it impenetrable. 
We hope.