Gracie, the Dear Stalker

Deer and Canada Geese are the new vermin. The deer eat everything in my yard and the Canada Geese and their droppings are everywhere, so I seldom take pictures of them. When I was a boy, hunting was allowed in Rockland County and a deer or a goose would have been shot on site for dinner. I don’t like animals to suffer from hunting, but these animals now suffer terribly from over population.
My cat Gracie, who has appeared often in these pages, has taken it upon herself to rid the yard of deer, but hunting them down and eating them. She does not know that the deer are very much larger than she is. She stalks them and jumps out at them chasing them away.

These photos were taken in the late afternoon with a telephoto lense. The shutter speed was very slow and I did not have a tripod, so they are a little blurred.


You can see Gracie in the grass on the right, stalking the deer.


Only a cat can show this intensity.


The deer is smart enough to keep an eye on her. Gracie's Dangerous.

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