I'd call it
'CAT-MANTIS'
The Praying Cat
Riding a motor-bike one evening with my nephew on the scenic route along the Pomburpa Creek in Bardez, Goa, while on a vacation there, way back in the late 1990's, we came across this cat sitting at the base of a cross on the road-side. In the course of coming slowly to a halt, the cat still sat proudly, looking directly into the camera lens, and appeared to be in no hurry to move away while I took this shot, seemingly giving the impression it was guarding the cross from the ravages of time. Such shrines are commonly seen dotted along the river banks, beaches, roadsides and in front of some Christian homes in the villages of Goa.
