Although I have seen that up here behind the levee up by Memphis. Thing walked under my climbing stand while I was bow hunting. I talked to the game warden about it and he had said that several reports of one. Thought that someone may have released it after they had it as a pet in Memphis and couldnt take care of it.
if i saw the scene like it is in the picture then i would actually shoot the deer first and then the cat. the deer would likely run away to fast in those trees but the cat would be a dubmass and just climb one. easy kill.
...and the doe stopped dead still after the shot. I also hav whistled real loud at a buck that was in full stride, he stopped dead in his tracks. The cat would bolt, not the deer.