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Hunting with a house cat?

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JW_Halverson:
I wondered how long it would take before this thread came all the way around to this.

Great story, Boomz! Congratulations.

GlisGlis:
the last days of august I was out near a pasture.
In the middle of this pasture there is a tree and under it a black cat making weird noise at the edge row 20 - 30 meters away
It looked very worried and also a little scared to leave the tree and venture in the open
All the sudden 2 roe deer fawns emerge from the brush and sprint toward the cat
they start chasing it at the speed of light
the cat run like hell but the pasture is big and the fawns are twice as fast
Every time the fawns catch it the cat stop and turns into a hissing black furred ball
without any significant speed change the fawns split, pass on the sides of the cat, make a large fast turn and start the chase all over again
In the meantime from the same brushes out they come the two mothers
the does run slowly, maintain some distance and seems to pay more attention only when the cat stops
after 15 or 20 run and stop the cat is too tired. It wont run anymore
The fawns stop running and the does join them and in a very aggressive way force the cat to a definitive retreat.
First time I saw something similar.  This is a picture after the event 

bjrogg:
I’m pretty sure Ed has a house cat that follows him hunting. I’m sure I remember him saying how the cat always alerts him by it’s behavior when it sees something.

Very interesting

I’m not really much of a cat person, but they can be very successful hunters. I’ve seen them catch and kill rabbits, birds and mice.

Bjrogg

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