misty donkey herder on Nostr: I miss Nightlight, my murdercat, so fucking much. She’s been gone for over a month ...

I miss Nightlight, my murdercat, so fucking much. She’s been gone for over a month (and by gone I mean the coyotes got her) and I still miss her every day. I won’t seek out another barn cat, for both the bird-lover reasons and the cat-lover reasons, but she left a big hole in my microecosystem.
I never saw so many baby bunnies before, because Nightlight would murder them. It’s way nicer to see them grow up than to find a head on the door mat, and it’s great to see the stupid baby songbirds fledge too. But now my garden is flush with rabbits, and the predators are taking note. This asshole hawk is the least of my worries - he’s only the size of a bantam chicken, so the adults aren’t in much danger. The coyotes, after eating my cat, are AWOL and now the meadow bunnies are breeding like rabbits.
There are Too Many wild rats in the barn and near the coop, so I’ve regretfully started trapping them again. The ravens are beyond overjoyed to get the occasional rat corpse, but the coopers isn’t a threat to them so they’re not interested in driving it away for me. I’m just hoping they’re hanging out often enough to keep any god damn bald eagles from finding the rabbit buffet.
I miss my murdercat, yall.