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Since the renovation project is at a standstill, walkies have resumed at Casa River.
And with cooler weather coming on that means mouse hunting.
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Lord Dudley Mountcatten can hear them scurrying under the foliage and through the rock wall and after long patient observation…
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He’s airborne.
Straight up in the blink of an eye.
Just like an arctic fox.
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He chases birds in the burning bush as well but that’s not nearly as entertaining, though it is more colorful this time of year.
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No worries, he never catches any.
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Catching His Lordship in full arctic fox mode is difficult but I managed one good shot.
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Unfortunately for him none of these flying leaps resulted in a captured mouse.
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Maybe next time…
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River's world..... 
Our cat got so good at mousing that she’d play with them before eating them. She’d let them go and catch them again.
Ironically, the reason we ended up with her is because her previous owner said she wouldn’t catch mice. Turned out, she just wouldn’t catch mice for HER.
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Ha! That sounds just like a cat.
Our boy used to catch multiple mice every time I took him outside last year but hadn’t been very successful this season.
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Ha ! Nice Goooo Dudley
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Getting those actions shots must have been very difficult. they’re great!
Deb
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Thanks. It wasn’t easy…
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That photo of Dudley leaping from behind (back paws to the camera) is excellent! I get a lot of photos of squirrels like that, but they all blur since they’re quicker than the arctic fox…
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That one was a happy accident, I didn’t even know he was going to jump.
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My Susy used to catch and bring me live Palmetto Bugs. Thankfully, she can’t go outside anymore so now she carries toys only.
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Eeww! I’d rather have dead mice than live cockroaches.
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I agree.. especially Flying ones!
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He looks like he loves his walkies with his human. You got some real good shot of him in arctic fox mode👍.
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Poor Dudley, trying to catching mice, his would-be panaceas….
But unfortunately for His Lordship, the mice have other ideas.
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Hope springs eternal…
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The resemblance is uncanny.
There’s a feral cat who likes to hang out in our yard. He also likes to deposit freshly caught mice on our patio and then consume them, tail and all, right in front of me. It’s mildly disturbing, to say the least. But I can’t complain, as we certainly don’t want any more mice wreaking havoc with our stuff.
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Dudley has never eaten one, though he has killed a few.
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I remember your pics! Freaked quite a few people out, ha.
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It’s my blog. You take the good with the awful…
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