$BARN
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The Basement Playroom
A massive underground HQ for zoomies, wrestling and knocking things off of other things.
The Lore of $BARN
The $BARN lore: five barn cats, a farm, and the humans who ended up building them a kingdom.
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2018
The farmhouse comes with… extras
Two people buy a 200-year-old farmhouse on nearly 16 acres in Macedon, New York. Included at no extra charge: a colony of 5 barn cats already living there. Neither of them had ever owned a cat.
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Year 1
Feral, but make it vaccinated
The cats are fully outdoor and fully feral. Every single one gets vaccinated and spayed or neutered. The outdoor shelter gets an upgrade.
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The hard years
The outside is not kind
Life outdoors brings illness, traffic and other dangers. The humans decide their five barn cats deserve a safer place to call home.
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Phase 1
The cat door
A cat door into the breezeway. Then a few cats start sleeping inside. They become known as “the sleepover crew.”
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2024
Everyone's inside
All 5 barn cats now live fully indoors. The humans have officially lost control of the house.
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~$10,000 later
The Kitty Kingdom is built
Mostly DIY. A whole house rebuilt around the cats. The farm becomes a nonprofit animal sanctuary — also home to donkeys, cows and goats.
