Oh Deer!

My dad stopped by and we decided to take the kids to Maumee Bay at dusk to see the deer. We saw the funniest thing. If I had had a video camera - I could have won Animal Planets Funniest Animal video show.

Right next to the parking lot there were 3 doe. About 10 feet from one of them was an animal of some sort. We weren't sure what it was until this happened. But as the deer (who was just as inquisitive) decided to smell the animal - the cat jumped back about 10 feet. The deer was startled and began a staring game with the cat. The cat laid in its best preying lion stance and the deer stood in what can only be described as a full point. They stared each other down for about a minute and the deer decided to make a move. She stepped forward two or three steps and the cat again jumped back. They continued this little dance for several minutes. Until the point that the deer had the cat back up to a tree. They then began to peak around the tree at each other. A very intricate dance! The deer again stepped in towards the cat- who then cheated and ran up the tree. The deer was kinda baffled. She looked up and the cat and literally shook her head. She gave up and walk away with her friends.

It was quite a show! Mind you, all this was going on as my children were in the car with all windows down, laughing and screaming at the funny animals. We were no more than 20 feet from the whole thing and the animals were so busy with each other, they didn't even care about all the noise.

Nadine says that they were playing tag. And Rowan was just excited to see dogs. Just about everything with 4 legs are dogs. However, he does know cat. I think he was more amused with the big animal and didn't even pay attention to the little one. Jourdyn was also amazed that they were playing together.