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Unfortunately we don't always know when we've lost the attention of the following predator.
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Free associating here, but I was once assigned to a country where it was difficult for me to fish, so I figured on practicing my fly casting on the lawn with just a piece of yarn tied to the end of the tippet.
Well, a few casts in I got surprised when a stray cat jumped out of the bushes to attack the yarn when I was retrieving it (lots of stray cats there). So it turned into a double game- cast the yarn, and then try to trigger the cat to "strike." Sounds awful, I'm sure PETA is coming after me as soon as I post this, but it gave me a chance to test different methods to get the cats to strike...sometimes they just wanted to watch it, sometimes they were hammering it as soon as it landed, and sometimes I would have them poised to strike the hole time and following it, but wouldn't strike it.
The takeaway? On different days, there were different retrieves, you just had to find out how the "Lawn Stripers" wanted it, and give it to them. But they liked the suspense when it wouldn't move...they would load up and often the longer one waited to move the yarn, the more explosive the hit...it was cool, you could watch their focus developing.
OK, now I'm going to get ready to be attacked by PETA...but this happened, it wasn't my plan, and none of the cats were hurt and all of them seemed to enjoy it more than a bit...