This guy has been living in my backyard for a while now. He's starting to get uncomfortably large.
On the positive side, the bunnies don't seem to be much of a threat anymore.
This guy has been living in my backyard for a while now. He's starting to get uncomfortably large.
On the positive side, the bunnies don't seem to be much of a threat anymore.
Cool I haven't seen one of them in years.
Fish and Wildlife would probably live trap it and relocate if you wanted. I'm surprised it would show up that close to a couple houses though.
Cat is going where the bunny supply is. Once that is depleted, I am sure he give a hearty burp and move on.
This is not the earthmoving equipment thread I was looking for.
Cool! We've got one that visits our back yard occasionally. It likes the apples that fall from the trees and the birds that the fallen apples attract.
Nor does it have anything to do with Mr. Goldwaith
I had hoped this was about the other Pinto.
The0retical said:I'm surprised it would show up that close to a couple houses though.
Like many animals that are no longer hunted or shot on sight, their numbers are increasing fairly significantly and they are adapting. Suburban areas seem fairly safe for smaller predators. House pets probably aren't much of a threat and realistically most human activity is confined to a few hours in the morning and late afternoon/evening.
You should pet him.
Bobcats are usually more secretive that than. I have spent a lot of time in the woods and only ever seen two.
Apparently, they are Connecticut's Top Predator.
In reply to Woody :
Exactly.
Woody said:This guy has been living in my backyard for a while now. He's starting to get uncomfortably large.
I wouldn't worry too much, it doesn't look big enough to take down white tail deer yet...
"In Connecticut, bobcats prey on cottontail rabbits, woodchucks, squirrels, chipmunks, mice, voles, white-tailed deer, birds, and, to a much lesser extent, insects and reptiles."
Woody said:Apparently, they are Connecticut's Top Predator.
Yeah, well, there was that mountain lion a few years ago that temporarily held the crown before it was hit by a car on the Merritt.
When dropping my son off at the University of California Irvine we came across a heavy looking cat and a student told me it was a bobcat and they were all over the campus. Later I looked it up to see Irvine has a few bobcats to deal with.
Would like to have one in my backyard. But my lot is only 75' x 150' in the middle of the city. So all I get is this.
Had one appear in my yard onw evening. We spotted each other as he neared the corner of my shop about 100 feet from any obvious cover. I literally glanced to one side checking for family and friends and he was GONE! Actually never saw him arrive or leave!
Bruce
Back in the 50's my grandfather raised skunks, raccoons, and bobcats for pets. He was a dozen or so generations in to the bobcats when a gray tiger stripe tomcat got into the pen with a bobcat in heat. Two of the kits were gray tiger stripe, one regular cat sized and one full bobcat sized, both with short tails and tufted ears. The full size one was the family house cat for several years, and there is a family pic of 6 kids side by side on a sofa with the cat stretched out on all their laps and getting it's belly rubbed by a dozen hands.
The bobcat is a powerful beast. I have a good friend that runs bears and cats with his hounds. He tells of seeing a roadkill deer in the evening. Before dawn he is out scouting for bobcat tracks in fresh snow crossing the roads in swampy areas. The deer has been dragged about a hundred yards into a very thick cedar swamp. The tracks are from a bobcat. The deer is a nice mature doe that probably weighed 150#. He released the hounds and several hours later the cat is treed. He said that it was a little bitty female that was about 15#. He is certain that it was the same cat as they did not cross any other fresh bobcat tracks. They let the cat live to breed. He only takes old male cats unless it is a nuisance. Be very wary of the cat in your yard, it may be injured or ill. They don't like being around people.
Man, I feel lucky when I get a good look at our foxes. I'm envious.
Super cool. I need to get a trail cam - we have a large herd of deer that live in our area (at one time we had 15 or so in our yard), coyotes, foxes, skunks, groundhogs, all the little mammals you don't want around, and some good birds of prey. I have no idea if we have any bobcats though. I'd love to see one!
I'd like to get a trail cam too. There's something living on our property not far from the house and I suspect it's coyotes.
I was tidying up the garage last night and when I picked up a half empty bag of wood chips discovered a sleeping young possum. That's #24 I've kicked out this year 
I'm getting coyotes, but no bobcats yet.
I'm now registered with the Connecticut Bobcat Project.
In reply to Woody :
That sounds intriguing, what does registration grant you/require from you?
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