Barn cat
A working cat kept on the farm — unsentimental alliance with a creature that earns its place.
A barn cat in a dream is the dream's image of an unsentimental alliance with a creature that earns its place by doing useful work. The barn cat is not a pet; it is staff. The dream brings the barn cat when something in your life — a working friendship, an arrangement with a useful colleague, a relation with a neighbour — is honest about being functional rather than pretending to be affectionate. A barn cat present and earning is the dream affirming the arrangement. A barn cat moved into the house and treated as a pet is the dream noting that the role of the relationship has been quietly renegotiated, and the working basis has been lost.