Cats stalking large game

"Ted Davis" wrote in message
news
There have been some recent cat food commercials on TV showing cats
stalking/ chasing large game. Yeah, right.

Well, just such a thing played itself out in my back yard Sunday
evening: two of my cats stalked, and spooked, one of the four deer
that were grazing in my back yard - closer than I have ever seen
before (the closest was about 60 feet from the back door). I was able
to get three poor but usable pictures and I made them into a web page:
http://gearbox.maem.umr.edu/tdavis/cats/041017/Cats_Stalking_Deer.html.



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ROTFLMAO! What great pictures!! What great hunters!!! The only big game
my four hunt is me!!

Hugs,

CatNipped

"Ted Davis" wrote in message
news
There have been some recent cat food commercials on TV showing cats
stalking/ chasing large game. Yeah, right.

Well, just such a thing played itself out in my back yard Sunday
evening: two of my cats stalked, and spooked, one of the four deer
that were grazing in my back yard - closer than I have ever seen
before (the closest was about 60 feet from the back door). I was able
to get three poor but usable pictures and I made them into a web page:
http://gearbox.maem.umr.edu/tdavis/cats/041017/Cats_Stalking_Deer.html.



T.E.D. )
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ROTFLMAO! What great pictures!! What great hunters!!! The only big game
my four hunt is me!!

Hugs,

CatNipped

"Ted Davis" wrote in message
news
There have been some recent cat food commercials on TV showing cats
stalking/ chasing large game. Yeah, right.

Well, just such a thing played itself out in my back yard Sunday
evening: two of my cats stalked, and spooked, one of the four deer
that were grazing in my back yard - closer than I have ever seen
before (the closest was about 60 feet from the back door). I was able
to get three poor but usable pictures and I made them into a web page:
http://gearbox.maem.umr.edu/tdavis/cats/041017/Cats_Stalking_Deer.html.



T.E.D. )
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ROTFLMAO! What great pictures!! What great hunters!!! The only big game
my four hunt is me!!

Hugs,

CatNipped

in article , Norm at
wrote on 10/19/04 1:55 PM:


Here's a sequence of 9 photos of Willie stalking a deer; this was
posted to binaries 3 years ago - Willie was just having fun and the doe
was pretty non-plussed about it. I've seen multipe cat/deer encounters
and they seem mutually curious about each other. The only time I saw
one upset it was when one of the deer ran off a feral that was hanging
around, I assumed she could somehow tell the diference between a pet and
a "wild" cat.
http://community.webshots.com/album/26945460TwNkhOYIdg

The funniest bit between cat and deer was when I was tossing bits of
bread in front of a deer. Max, who was behind me, suddenly charged from
between my legs and wolfed the bread: "This is *my* hoomin!". The deer
just backed up a step but leaned forward to smell Max. Never saw him
eat bread before or since.

--
"The web has got me caught. I'd rather have the blues than what I've
got." via Nat King Cole

LOL!!! That showed the deer !

in article , Norm at
wrote on 10/19/04 1:55 PM:


Here's a sequence of 9 photos of Willie stalking a deer; this was
posted to binaries 3 years ago - Willie was just having fun and the doe
was pretty non-plussed about it. I've seen multipe cat/deer encounters
and they seem mutually curious about each other. The only time I saw
one upset it was when one of the deer ran off a feral that was hanging
around, I assumed she could somehow tell the diference between a pet and
a "wild" cat.
http://community.webshots.com/album/26945460TwNkhOYIdg

The funniest bit between cat and deer was when I was tossing bits of
bread in front of a deer. Max, who was behind me, suddenly charged from
between my legs and wolfed the bread: "This is *my* hoomin!". The deer
just backed up a step but leaned forward to smell Max. Never saw him
eat bread before or since.

--
"The web has got me caught. I'd rather have the blues than what I've
got." via Nat King Cole

LOL!!! That showed the deer !

in article , Norm at
wrote on 10/19/04 1:55 PM:


Here's a sequence of 9 photos of Willie stalking a deer; this was
posted to binaries 3 years ago - Willie was just having fun and the doe
was pretty non-plussed about it. I've seen multipe cat/deer encounters
and they seem mutually curious about each other. The only time I saw
one upset it was when one of the deer ran off a feral that was hanging
around, I assumed she could somehow tell the diference between a pet and
a "wild" cat.
http://community.webshots.com/album/26945460TwNkhOYIdg

The funniest bit between cat and deer was when I was tossing bits of
bread in front of a deer. Max, who was behind me, suddenly charged from
between my legs and wolfed the bread: "This is *my* hoomin!". The deer
just backed up a step but leaned forward to smell Max. Never saw him
eat bread before or since.

--
"The web has got me caught. I'd rather have the blues than what I've
got." via Nat King Cole

LOL!!! That showed the deer !

On Tue, 19 Oct, Marina wrote:

Ted Davis wrote:

There have been some recent cat food commercials on TV showing cats
stalking/ chasing large game. Yeah, right.

Well, just such a thing played itself out in my back yard Sunday
evening: two of my cats stalked, and spooked, one of the four deer
that were grazing in my back yard - closer than I have ever seen
before (the closest was about 60 feet from the back door). I was able
to get three poor but usable pictures and I made them into a web page:
http://gearbox.maem.umr.edu/tdavis/cats/041017/Cats_Stalking_Deer.html.

LOL! Some cats just believe they are Big Cats. Here's my sister's cat
Linus, driving away a young elk who came too close to our house on the
island one summer. Very poor pictures, but they're scanned from poorish
photos.
http://tinyurl.com/3kkw7 http://tinyurl.com/4vd9p

Mmmm! All this talk about deer and elk is making me hungry!

Regards and Purrs,
O J

On Tue, 19 Oct, Marina wrote:

Ted Davis wrote:

There have been some recent cat food commercials on TV showing cats
stalking/ chasing large game. Yeah, right.

Well, just such a thing played itself out in my back yard Sunday
evening: two of my cats stalked, and spooked, one of the four deer
that were grazing in my back yard - closer than I have ever seen
before (the closest was about 60 feet from the back door). I was able
to get three poor but usable pictures and I made them into a web page:
http://gearbox.maem.umr.edu/tdavis/cats/041017/Cats_Stalking_Deer.html.

LOL! Some cats just believe they are Big Cats. Here's my sister's cat
Linus, driving away a young elk who came too close to our house on the
island one summer. Very poor pictures, but they're scanned from poorish
photos.
http://tinyurl.com/3kkw7 http://tinyurl.com/4vd9p

Mmmm! All this talk about deer and elk is making me hungry!

Regards and Purrs,
O J

On Tue, 19 Oct, Marina wrote:

Ted Davis wrote:

There have been some recent cat food commercials on TV showing cats
stalking/ chasing large game. Yeah, right.

Well, just such a thing played itself out in my back yard Sunday
evening: two of my cats stalked, and spooked, one of the four deer
that were grazing in my back yard - closer than I have ever seen
before (the closest was about 60 feet from the back door). I was able
to get three poor but usable pictures and I made them into a web page:
http://gearbox.maem.umr.edu/tdavis/cats/041017/Cats_Stalking_Deer.html.

LOL! Some cats just believe they are Big Cats. Here's my sister's cat
Linus, driving away a young elk who came too close to our house on the
island one summer. Very poor pictures, but they're scanned from poorish
photos.
http://tinyurl.com/3kkw7 http://tinyurl.com/4vd9p

Mmmm! All this talk about deer and elk is making me hungry!

Regards and Purrs,
O J

wrote:

I thought Ronja had the more sensible response!

Much more sensible, but Linus is such a macho cat, he probably couldn't
live with himself if he hadn't driven away that elk (the elk was leaving
anyway, but Linus is convinced that he drove it away). Linus is the cat
who grew false nuts when he'd been snipped, just to look more manly. ;o)


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