Barn Cat Blows Off Work To Hang With Senior Horse Best Friend and It's Too Cute

One thing you can guarantee about cats—they have their own agendas. Every cat parent knows that their best-laid plans fall to pieces in the face of feline wills, whether that’s the food they get, the place the cat is supposed to sleep, or who the cat actually belongs to anyway. Cats pick their own person.

And in this case, their own horse.

In this video, we meet Peaches, an average barn cat who doesn’t mind blowing off work to chill with her BFF, a senior horse. Though Peaches was adopted and given a home in this family’s barn to help manage pest control and hunt mice, she often finds better things to do, if that means wandering the fields or even going for rides on the back of “her” horse.

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All About the Barn Cat

Barn cats are cats that—well, live in a barn and help keep the mice out. As barns are warm, dry spaces with plenty of grain feed, they are naturally a desirable home for all kinds of rodent pests and so keeping a cat is a good way to ensure that they don’t become a problem.

But that’s only if the cat feels like doing its job. We’re not saying that Peaches is slacking, though. Maybe she’s just very efficient at catching mice and only spends her free time socializing with her horse friend.

Barn cats are sometimes feral or semi-feral, and the role of “barn cat” is often the choice of last resort for animal rescues that have felines who are not entirely socialized to human interactions. But that does not seem to be the case with Peaches here, who was raised from a kitten with this family and is seen in other videos climbing all over her human with affection. Some cats just hunt in the barn but don’t make it their entire personality.

Friends for Horses

As one of the oldest domesticated animals in existence, of course horses get along with other domesticated creatures, from fellow livestock like goats, cows, and sheep, to other barn animals like cats. It is not unusual to see horses nuzzling or even giving rides to the other animals who live with them, and Peaches here definitely takes advantage of hanging with her horse friend.

Despite their massive difference in size, the horse is very careful around Peaches, making sure that she is not kicked or squashed, and she is seen frolicking with the horse in the field, and even rubbing her cheeks against the horse’s long, slim legs and scent marking the animal as being part of her family group.

“Maybe my cat needs a horse,” remark several people in the comments, after seeing the steadfast bond between these two animals.

Hey, it couldn’t hurt. Cats are actually extremely social creatures. Naturally, most of us don’t have the acreage a horse would require, but it doesn’t take much to get your cat another friend, like a cat, to keep them company. Many rescues actually advise people to adopt cats in pairs, and to make sure that these animals always have an animal companion—feline or otherwise.

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