I'm prone to swing at mirrors

[sovay]

I did not get a picture of the deer I encountered this evening while walking within a ten-minute radius of my parents' house. It was roan-red, unantlered, browsing behind the hedge of a suburban lawn. I was surprised to see it; it moved quietly away through the screen of trees at the side of the house. We have had coyotes and foxes and uncountable rabbits in this area for years now, but I don't ever remember street-roaming deer.

I got a very bad picture of the little astronaut who trotted audaciously up the stairs to the sun porch once his sister had jimmied the closed but signally not locked door because I was engaged primarily in preventing him from further exploration, but he can be glimpsed looking back to his handler for instructions. She made a bolt for the forbidden territory herself while I was in the process of returning him. Both cats were successfully gathered and replaced so that my mother can keep breathing in her own home. I had naturally been on the phone with spatch when the incursion occurred.

Comments

[nineweaving]

Awww.

Nine

[selkie]

Everykitty craves a little excitement.

[sholio]

The deer encounter sounds really magical!

Deer

[lauradi7dw]

We had deer in the backyard once, which I think is in some ways odder than having them regularly. I don't think the coyotes get any closer to us than the fitness path.

[pameladean]

Oooh, a deer that just ghosted away rather than leaping in a panic.

As for your cats, those little conspirators. It is alarming when they team up. We used to think Ninja was the mischief-maker and Nuit just went along for the ride because she is fond of her brother. But she has several tricks up her non-existent sleeves.

P.

[gwynnega]

Adventure Kitty!

[chanter1944]

Autolycus is the purriest astronaut ever to grace planet Terra. :) I'd call him a K'zintosh, to Hestia's K'zinret, but neither one strikes me as all that vicious. Catians, maybe, but they'd be tiny members of that species.

I find myself wishing I could cuddle a fuzzy adventurer kitty or two. Alas, no dice.

[aurumcalendula]

Adventure kitties!

Deer are about as numerous as squirrels where I am - the fawns are adorable and the adults are generally unimpressed by humans.