Digital Dan has a point that perhaps needs exploring. I looked over quite a number of posts and find certain of them have changed the overall direction of our comments from one of recounting exploits in protecting apple pie and motherhood from maurading felions to one of adversity toward lap lynxs and porch panthers even without offense. Dan saving bluehairs. Old Elk Hunter telling of great hunting stories that perhaps include cats, but the emphasis was the great shot or overcoming the cunning little beasts. Thats why I like their stories. We used to hear too of DRAGON LADY, who could drop a maimed quail nymph on a cats nose around the corner of the barn, and bring it to net with a manual drag 9 wt. rod (Ninja Skill). Some more of those tellings would do me just fine. Wolfer invented the CATOMATIC because the durn ranch cougars were taking over a little Montana village. See, it was like stories of attacks on unsuspecting innocents? What do you think?

N.S.

I have not had any trespassing trail tigers to tackle in quite some time. Basically, there are none left in my area. Can't figure out why . So lately all I have had are marauding tree rats, they are still in season around here and they have kept my shooting skills sharp until I can once again protect my land from trail tigers.

I watched a Cooper's Hawk chase a mourning dove at high speed right past my face, into the fence wire and across my pasture at dusk the other day. What an amazing feat to watch both of these very athletic birds! The dove caused the hawk to hit the fence wire but the dazed hawk would not give up. It did catch the dove despite the tactics it took. All this with in a few dozen yards of me.

Now to find a raptor to do such work with yotes, foxes and crats!

I know what ya mean,N.S.
Stories about dipping a crat headfirst into liquid nitrogen just doesn't have the same style,ala Capstick, as the 'Catomatic.'
Other stories come to mind like the stalking of mini-panthers in the orange groves of Florida.
Alas, I sit in front of the keyboard musing on my own failure to put into words some of my 'Death in the Mowed Grass'adventures.
Where's that bottle?

BTW, I didn't mean to slight anybody except mortie, or not credit all the authors, and I sure don't feel guilty about trying to catch a cat on the top of my new F-150 with a glue pad. Efficiency is great, but a lot of it is in the story. I used to be a luddite, you know.