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Published: 2007-03-30 22:03:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 519; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 5
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not really my own photo - my husband shot this of a bobcat that came by to eat some meat he tossed when he was emptying the freezer of old food - he'd assumed a feral tomcat (housecat gone wild) we've been feeding would come eat it. unfortunately, there's a good chance this bobcat ate the tomcat instead, as the tom has completely disappeared ever since this guy appeared.my husband said the bobcat was huge (for a bobcat), and completely unafraid. he ran into the house to get his camera, then returned and shot for about 20 minutes, getting closer and closer (though not TOO close), and the bobcat never left.
we've heard, but not seen, bobcats around the house before, and they have the strangest, most hair-raising shriek, somewhere between an eagle's cry and a baby's scream. really gets your adrenaline pumping!
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yeah, their scream is pretty amazingly heart-stopping
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*and the room was filled with "whoa" because though bobcats are local, we've never seen one "close up"in this manner.. cept' for my sister who laughed and called it "cute" o_o*
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yeah, well, it was a whoa moment for my husband too - we've mostly just heard these bobcats screaming their strange scream, but rarely seen them this close.
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it was very big for a bobcat (they are normally kind of small - like a big house cat), so we think it was an adult male. but this was after many months of heavy winter, and my husband had cleaned out our freezer of old meat and thrown it next to the house for wild animals (we only thought of foxes!) to eat. we think the bobcat must have been very, very hungry.
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Quel regard! Quand mΓͺme, je me demande ce qu'il cherchait et pourquoi il n'Γ©tait pas craintif! Peut-Γͺtre est-ce un jeune?
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oops... i replied incorrectly (not directly to you - only as a comment to my own post :/). here is what i wrote:
it was very big for a bobcat (they are normally kind of small - like a big house cat), so we think it was an adult male. but this was after many months of heavy winter, and my husband had cleaned out our freezer of old meat and thrown it next to the house for wild animals (we only thought of foxes!) to eat. we think the bobcat must have been very, very hungry
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Eh, chance! 
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I want to take him home!!!!! I sooo want a pet bobcat! we have them here and they are sooo pretty
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i've always wanted to have a pet bobcat too... i met one at a gas station once - some people had stopped there, and took the cat out of their car for a walk - i asked if i could pet it - they said sure, she won't bite, but she won't really respond either. and they were right. she didn't even look at me. but the amazing thing was her muscles - she wasn't big, but she was so incredibly powerful feeling
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just dress it up in a little black leather spiked collar and silver claws, and it'd fit right in your little shop of horrors
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hey i own a neko in SL. she has spiked collar and sharp silver claws.
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THat's pretty dang close ! 
a rare op ( and meat of course ) and kool shots ...kudos to hubby 
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sweet, dudefingers, you are amazing!!!
i will tell my husband all about your compliments and thoughts on his bobcattian close encounter ;D
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hey! what happened to your signature sigs?
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...right?..
lol
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oh, come on... sometimes well said makes it all worthwhile
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hey ..that's in direct contradiction to Ben !??!?...
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Unfortunately...they have never been able to get an accurate membership count since they started.
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besides, it's my RIGHT to change my mind on ben's alleged wisdom
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youre right !!
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i get it, i get it, sheesh... typical male, always have to repeat yourself
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youre right !!
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well, ben wasn't all that smart
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Hey 
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good to see you too, duckie, and thanks. they ARE beauties, aren't they?
how's the sissypoo these days?
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She's dropped off the DA face of the earth, lol, otherwise she is keeping busy with work and just life 
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busy is good. thanks for letting her know i'm thinking of her
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It's a beatiful surprise 
Thank you for sharing
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i think we also have lynxes in the US - they are very similiar, but a little different in size.
are your lince in the dolomites?
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Yes, very few but some lynxes lives in the Oriental Alpes ... but I have never seen
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are the dolomites also called "the oriental alps"?
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Dolomites are a part of the Oriental Alps. They are a group of mountains with "special" geological characteristic ...like the composition of the rocks (dolomia) [link] and
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Happy and 
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ah... thank you for the links.
did i mention my husband and i drove through the dolomites on our way from germany to tuscany 2 years ago? they were so beautiful, but we did not have time to stop and look. i want so much to go back and spend more time there.
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I really wish that, one day, you will come back and stay more tme
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Wow what a beautiful animal but you're right totally unafraid!
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we're guessing the poor thing was very, very hungry, and wasn't going to leave the food just because of some soft human.
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Did the stray cat ever show up?
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not while my husband was still living up there in the mountains. he's moved down into our house in the city again the past month. if the feral cat came by again, there would be no one to see him. so we don't know
i'll put up a pic of the feral tom - he was most likely a cat from our local sheepherders, who have a ranch a few miles away that they occupy during the summer. when they come up, they bring a bunch of barn cats with them to keep mice away. when they leave in the fall, they catch as many of the cats and their kittens as they can, and bring them back down to their winter ranch.
but there are often toms, and sometimes females, that are just too wild and can't be caught.
i tamed a female a few years ago, though she could never be taught to use a litter box, so had to stay outside. she was pregnant when she arrived on our back porch in the dead of winter, and had her kittens in one of our sheds. as soon as we found homes for most of them, we spayed her and one of the kittens. but she and the kitten both disappeared over time - also possibly eaten by bobcats
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Wow it must be pretty rural out there to have wild animals so close to the house, it sounds nice, a great place to get away from it all!
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we're thinking of going up there this weekend for easter. the local community has an easter egg hunt every year in a sheep meadow. we just have to wash the sheep and elk manure off the eggs - no biggie
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Ha ha if people could see all the chicken poop that's covering eggs before they're washed they'd probably never eat them! 
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we stayed home in boise, because hubby had a medical procedure friday, and was told not to travel afterwards. but at the last moment, some neighbors we know invited us to join them for easter dinner, and we had a great time
hope you enjoyed your easter sunday too
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I'm so glad you had a good Easter, I had a nice one too the family got together for breakfast.
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They have always fascinated me. They're wild cats, but they look closer to our domestic cats (except for size) than any of the wild cats. This is truly amazing.
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i actually petted a pet bobcat once - we were stopped at a gas station, and some people took her out of their car for a little walk. i had chatted with them earlier, and they were friendly, so i asked if it would be possible to pet their bobcat. they said, "sure... she won't be upset, but she won't really notice you either."
and they were right. but the remarkable thing (to me), was how incredibly muscular and powerfully built she was - completely taut - not like any housecat, that's fer sure!
i asked them how they'd dealt with her using her claws on people when playing, and they said they'd taught her to draw her claws back in (which usually wild cats can't, or don't, do - only domestic cats do), by tapping on the pads of her claws whenever she started to scratch a person.
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Wow, some more interesting info. Maybe they are more closely related to our domestic cats than we think.
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