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Hunting with a house cat?
WhistlingBadger:
My wife's cat used to leave rabbit heads inside the garden shed occasionally. That was back when she actually did things. Now she's too fat and lazy to be bothered. ;D
boomhowzer:
Yes, this being the primitive archery forum, I am hunting with a bow. And just like your dog, when I grab my bow off the rack and string it, she comes running, tail up, pawing at my quiver of arrows, ready to run out the door. She doesn't fetch, but she knows we're hunting, there's no question about it.
As far as rabbit decapitation goes, she's not there yet. I did have a cat in Oregon that once killed a squirrel, disemboweled it, cut off its head and tail, and arranged all of the disparate pieces on a cutting board in our outdoor kitchen. She did the same thing with a blue jay on the welcome mat in front of our house. Both wings were detached and layed next to the bird. Cats are weird. Or at least that's what you think. Then you read James Frazer's "The Golden Bough" and you're like, man, people are weird too...
TimBo:
I can't remember where I read this, but somewhere there is an online account of a bowhunter stalking deer with his cat. The cat would give him a dirty look over its shoulder if he was moving too fast, and would give some sort of indication when a deer was near. I especially remember that if the hunt ended with a downed deer, the cat would waltz up to it and sit on it (counting coup?). Maybe this was an urban legend, but the whole thing sounded very cat-like!
boomhowzer:
TimBo! I've scoured the internet and never ran across such an account. Can you find it again? I have literally googled everything you could imagine (including some things I wish I hadn't) and have found nothing but cat blogs and feline psychology mumbo jumbo. I would love to read a cat/human deer hunting story, even if it was completely made up.
TimBo:
Sorry, we were out of town on a camping trip and I just saw this. Unfortunately, I can't seem to turn up the original story, although I found something a bit similar on Archery Talk. I have tried and failed before to re-locate it...maybe I dreamed it!
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