This is not actually Max and the deer but this is about as close as the two were this morning.  When I looked out the bathroom window, I saw Maxine hunkered down in pounce position and just a few feet away Fawn Doe was laughing at her.  I was leery about getting the camera not knowing whether Max would try to pounce......didn't want to take my eyes off her.  In my mind , I'm wondering, how did she get that close, what is she going to do now, how is she going to get out of this?  Cliff and I watched for a few minutes until Fawn stomped her hoof and we figured that was a defensive signal.  Did Maxine not realize how much larger this animal is than her?  We would have liked to have seen how this played out, but I was bothered by the stomp, so Cliff went out, walked quite close to the deer until she walked away.  Maxine must have thought she had won the stand-off because she turned to us and meowed proudly, wagged her tail as she followed us back to the porch.  Dumb cat.....can't even keep the squirrels off the feeder.