A new friend on the farm

We have a new furry friend at the farm. His name is Benjamin, or "Big Ben" as we call him. Big ben is a big, beautiful, very sweet, grey tabby cat. He actually belongs to one of our neighbors. we've taken to calling him Big Ben for two reasons,1) because he announces himself all the way to you no matter how far away he is once he spots you and 2) because he is just a huge cat. Big Ben comes over from time to time for as much attention as he can get and of course some food. The story on Big Ben, I learned, is that the family he belongs to has another cat,Tiny, who tends to be aggressive towards Ben and sometimes won't let him eat. I've spotted Tiny around on a couple of occasions and she's not exactly a friendly cat. To look at Big Ben he doesn't seem like he's starving, but he knows the sound of the food cup that I keep in my truck and he's been known to try to eat the food in the cup before I can even pour it out for him. Yesterday Big Ben got to go on his first ride in our truck yesterday.

Skylar, gets dropped off at the farm in the afternoons after school and well with the rains we've been having, the driveway is extremely muddy so she tends to not want to even try to walk down the driveway to the house. So when I pull up she's sitting at the front of the driveway in the grass with Big Ben on her lap. So once I piled Skylar into the truck I grabbed Big Ben and sat him on Skylar's lap and up the driveway we went. For a cat he did quite well sitting perfectly still enjoying his ear massage. When I stopped the truck Big Ben was a little hesitant to get out, but once he did he was back to following us around and keeping us from getting anything done. Even though Big Ben isn't ours, we love seeing him when he comes around and worry about him when we hadn't seen him for a while.