Bun, My Fierce Office Kitty Guardian

[Ivan Seeking]

There is no doubt that I have a brave and fierce guardian of the property - my office kitty. I once posted about my daily offerings of dead things - mice, rats, birds, even a humming bird - found every morning by my chair as a gift. In fact just now I looked on the other side of my desk, and there is today's kill - a sparrow. Thanks so much Bun!

But the other night Bun showed just how fierce she really is. I had been working late and didn't realize that a deer had gone to sleep right outside the door. When I opened the door, we scared the deer half to death, and it scared both of us [Bun and I] about as much as it tried to scramble to its feet. I swang around and hit the deer with the beam of the flashlight just in time to see it heading off towards the bushes on a dead run, with Bun right on its tail! I wonder what she would do if she caught it!

 

[Evo]

There is no doubt that I have a brave and fierce gaurdian of the property - my office kitty. I once posted about my daily offerings of dead things - mice, rats, birds, even a humming bird - found every morning by my chair as a gift. In fact just now I looked on the other side of my desk, and there is today's kill - a sparrow. Thanks so much Bun!

But the other night Bun showed just how fierce she really is. I had been working late and didn't realize that a deer had gone to sleep right outside the door. When I opened the door, we scared the deer half to death, and it scared both of us [Bun and I] about as much as it tried to scramble to its feet. I swang around and hit the deer with the beam of the flashlight just in time to see it heading off towards the bushes on a dead run, with Bun right on its tail! I wonder what she would do if she caught it!

Tomorrow Ivan will find a dead deer lying next to his chair.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Tomorrow Ivan will find a dead deer lying next to his chair.

good kitty

Hey, Ivan -- How about some pictures of Bun? I don't think I have seen any of her since she was a baby.

 

[hypatia]

Tomorrow Ivan will find a dead deer lying next to his chair.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I just came in and expected to find a deer under my chair.

MIH, I have been meaning to dig out the camera, so I will post a shot soon.

I think she may actually be buddies with the deer, so she may have considered this as play. We have seen Zoobie [not Zooby] playing hide and seek with one before.

 

[turbo]

Yes, cats often befriend wildlife of their own size or larger. In out last house, our 2-doors-down neighbor had a really shy calico cat that avoided people but used to show up at night under our bird-feeders with her skunk/possum friends patiently waiting for them to tank up on sunflower seeds.

 

[mgb_phys]

Could be worse http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060613-cat-bear.html
We were once woken up to the sound of our cat trying to drag a dead rabbit through the cat flap.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Could be worse http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060613-cat-bear.html

Now that is one tough kitty!

We were once woken up to the sound of our cat trying to drag a dead rabbit through the cat flap.

The night of the screaming bunnies
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=16882