Cats in the basement!

Now I've heard of people having problems with mice, rats, snakes, spiders, ants and even ladybugs, but CATS! Now I need to tell you that we are city people who are trying to live like country folk and if there is such a thing as a dysfunctional farm, then we certainly own one.

I must say that I use the word farm loosely. We don't have cows, pigs, or horses. We do have chickens though. We don't plow our fields, grow our own food or even have big plans for a garden. We do have a tractor, backhoe and John Deere riding mower though.

We are dog lovers, rabbit lovers, bird lovers and enjoy the occasional red squirrel and chipmunk now and then. We've had barn cats, rats in the henhouse and a big fat woodchuck that likes to sit high on the tree stump near our house.

We've had tame bunnies running wild, eating raisins out of our hand, attempted to raise the baby robin that has fallen out of its nest, and nursed back to health a wild rabbit that was hit with the tractor.

We've experienced mice in the attic, an adult red squirrel in our bedroom and a baby red squirrel sitting above my daughter's head while sleeping (that's another post for another time :).

We've had Starlings raise families in the attic, bees building hives in our grill and bats in our hallway. Now, to top it all off we have CATS living in our basement!

At first, my husband saw a white one the other day. We thought, well that's not so bad - the cat can keep out the mice, the rats, the birds, the squirrels, the chipmunks, and the snakes. BUT then, last night there was an actual cat fight in our basement. SO there is not only a pretty little white cat but also a black cat. Now, we would like to think that it was a fight, but something tells me they may have been starting a family ;)

What do you do when you have cats in your basement? Maybe I should take a poll. How would you vote?