Cool. I used to live out in the country in the middle of a large orange orchard, which was surrounded by miles of other orchards. We took daily walks along the dirt roads traversing the orchards and our cat always came along. She was an outdoor cat, and wasn't really that social but she insisted on walking with us. If we left without her, she would track us down mewing all the way til she caught up. Our usual retinue was two adults, three kids, a dog or two, and that cat. The dog(s) would range out in front, and chase rabbits and squirrels, but the cat always stayed right with us. Unfortunately we later lost her to a pack of coyotes that came through one night, (we often heard them at night, but they had never come so close before). She could handle the family dogs, (who all gave the cat a wide berth), but a pack of determined predators apparently was more then she could fight off. We heard the commotion, (dogs barked, but were penned up), but she must have tried to run away, and we figured they caught up to her out in the orchard. Living in the country had it's charms, but it had it's dangers too. We never found her body, but we still remember those walks fondly.


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