DelCoDoc
10-31-2008, 06:25 PM
This just happened and is too funny ... I just had to share it.
I was walking in from the small patch of woods behind my house where I have my treestand. I had been out since about 2:30 with no action at all.:nono: I was in the now empty soybean field to the north of the woods and I spooked a couple of doe as I crossed into a secondary field. They headed into a small thicket north of the bean field. As I got to the opposite end of the field, I noticed our family cat sitting in the middle of the field ... apparently hunting field mice. She is a very colorful cat, a "torty", a mixture of black, browns, rust and cream colors. Anyway, I crotched down and called her to me. She was meowing and moving in and out of my legs as I petted her.
I looked up for a second and did a double-take as I noticed the two doe now out in the field and moving toward me and the cat. The cat was just meowing away and moving all around me ... and the deer kept on coming, heading straight for us at a good pace. The thicket where they ran to was a good 100 yards away and unbelievably they closed in to about 40 yards of us. The wind was blowing from behind me and right to the doe. The lead one snorted, flipped her tail, and did this slow and high arching leap away from us only to turn a move toward us again. She did this three times.... never getting any closer than 40 yards. You could tell they were confused. As soon as the cat lost interest in me and wandered into the brush .... the deer lost interest too and headed back into the thicket.
Next time ... maybe I'll put the cat in my day pack and take her hunting with me!!!:idea: :idea:
I was walking in from the small patch of woods behind my house where I have my treestand. I had been out since about 2:30 with no action at all.:nono: I was in the now empty soybean field to the north of the woods and I spooked a couple of doe as I crossed into a secondary field. They headed into a small thicket north of the bean field. As I got to the opposite end of the field, I noticed our family cat sitting in the middle of the field ... apparently hunting field mice. She is a very colorful cat, a "torty", a mixture of black, browns, rust and cream colors. Anyway, I crotched down and called her to me. She was meowing and moving in and out of my legs as I petted her.
I looked up for a second and did a double-take as I noticed the two doe now out in the field and moving toward me and the cat. The cat was just meowing away and moving all around me ... and the deer kept on coming, heading straight for us at a good pace. The thicket where they ran to was a good 100 yards away and unbelievably they closed in to about 40 yards of us. The wind was blowing from behind me and right to the doe. The lead one snorted, flipped her tail, and did this slow and high arching leap away from us only to turn a move toward us again. She did this three times.... never getting any closer than 40 yards. You could tell they were confused. As soon as the cat lost interest in me and wandered into the brush .... the deer lost interest too and headed back into the thicket.
Next time ... maybe I'll put the cat in my day pack and take her hunting with me!!!:idea: :idea: