Farm cat
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Farm cats are cats kept primarily for the purpose of catching the smaller vermin found on farms, which would otherwise eat and/or contaminate the farmer's crops, and especially grain stocks. They are generally at least semi-feral (wild) cats, and thus caution should be taken around them.
Depending both on circumstances and the individual farmer they may be fed and watered, even treated as a part of the family as would be a house cat, or may have to derive sustenance solely from their job of lowering the mouse and rat populations. In the latter case, lack of guaranteed food supply, and the necessity of physical exertion on their part, will tend to cause the cats to be much leaner than their domestic counterparts.
