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Old 06-21-2015, 09:54 PM
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I thought I lost a cat last night to a predator. But the loud screaming is a bobcat or a lynx. I seen a lynx in the neighbourhood before. I took a head count of my cats this morning and there all here. My three feral cats go out and there on high alert outside all the time. One can in two weeks ago with two cuts on his back. I let there claws grow so they can defend themselves and climb trees faster. I haven't lost another cat to yotes since. Now the past week the dog has been going crazy in the house after 12am. The other night he was going from the window in the parlor to me in bed barking back and forth till I got up. I seen nothing. Last night the lynx screamed. Heard this scream before.

These predators aren't on the menu to hunt yet.(lynx)
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Old 06-21-2015, 10:09 PM
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Had a bobcat around the cabin last summer.......a sound that will scare the ____ out of you after midnight!!!!!!!

You want to grab a gun or two and go all sci-fi in your mind!
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Old 06-21-2015, 10:51 PM
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These predators aren't on the menu to hunt yet.(lynx)
Do tell, why not?
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Old 06-22-2015, 01:17 AM
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chap said it pretty good......... why not put out a large Have-A-Heart live trap baited good with a gutted rabbit.... keeping all your family's critters inside that night....my guess is that you would have him trapped in one night...........a .22LR thru the ear or between the eyes would put paid to him...... in Missouri, a landowner/homeowner can trap/kill any animal that is a threat or is damaging property.... dead pets count.......It might not hurt to have a hunting license... and look at your state's hunting regulations...After you put it down... I'd call the conservation agents & tell them (if you are required to)... then get it stuffed...........or get the pelt tanned with the hair on... they make for a pretty rug.
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Old 06-22-2015, 02:38 PM
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Old 06-22-2015, 02:55 PM
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These aren't on the ok to hunt list yet.

Last night the dog barked again. I need to purchase a game camera and good night vision soon.
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Peafowl are no slouches when it comes to making noise either...
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We have a lot of fisher cat's here, they can let out a scream that will make the hair on your back stand up.
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Seems funny to me anyway.......I noticed right after the comment about "newly-weds", was the comment; "not legal to hunt yet". Now I'm not real sure what this thread is about.
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Old 06-23-2015, 09:18 AM
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Here in Missouri, we are allowed to harvest bobcats with traps or weapons in season.. if you are south of Interstate 70....you may not generally take one north of I-70 unless there is stock or pet predation... which means something is killing or harming/stalking stock or pets......the animal just going through your property isn't enough of a reason to trap or kill it... without evidence of the other...It might be the same where the OP lives.
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Not likely a lynx. From the habitat model for lynx:

"McKelvey et al. (1999) summarized lynx habitat preferences in the Northeast, based on occurrence data. They concluded there is a preference for terrain between 250 - 750 m in elevation, with lynx making limited use of terrain below 250 m. Occurrences were rare in dry forests and non-forests, and they avoid wetlands with cattails, oak, maple and hemlock. Habitats typically are "mixed forest-coniferous forest-high tundra vegetation" (88% of occurrences were in this cover, encompassing 29% of this region). On a finer scale lynx show a preference for red spruce-balsam fir/sugar maple-birch-beech forest; the addition of sugar maple-birch-beech forest and of red spruce-balsam fir forest included the habitat for 84% of occurrences in the northeast (McKelvey et al. 1999). Trapping records from the White Mountains of New Hampshire during the 1960's and the Adirondack mountains of New York indicated that lynx were taken from forests dominated by spruce-balsam fir and hardwoods, at elevations over 900 m, where the greatest snowfall occurred (Brocke 1982 in Aubry et al. 1999). However, it is important to recognize that trapping records are biased by trapper effort.

Legendre et al. (1978 in Mowat et al. 1999) showed that in northeast Quebec, lynx were most abundant in the boreal forests, and their distribution was associated with the distribution of snowshoe hare. In the southwestern Yukon Territory lynx avoided shrub habitat while foraging, and rarely used open habitats (Murray et al. 1994). Studies in Nova Scotia (Parker 1981, 1983) suggested that early successional forests (5-15 years) and advanced successional forests (16-30 years) are important for lynx, followed by open mature conifer and open black spruce bogs. Parker (1983 in ch 13) also found a decrease during the summer in the use of successional forest and an increase in use of mature conifer habitat. Koehler and Brittell (1990) speculated that woodlands of 420-640 trees/ha could provide adequate cover for travel habitat. "


In the Cascades, lynx pretty much inhabit the highest elevations. Basically, you'll find lynx where you find snowshoe hares.
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Old 06-23-2015, 11:27 AM
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Seen a lynx already in the neighbourhood. We're surrounded by small horse farms and lots of forest and water shed land.

We spotted a 400# black bear in my backyard. A mountainlion was spotted not far away too. We have yotes, turkeys, fishers and deer too.

It's like wild America on tv.
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The only predators around my place last night were a couple who were in shouting match over something. Other than that,its pretty quite in my neck of the woods.
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Old 06-23-2015, 05:21 PM
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Coyote, deer, wild pigs and children come and go.
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Do you have any newlyweds in the neighborhood? Just sayin'.
Do you have any cougars in the neighborhood?

I am surprised nobody has asked this one before now. I was hoping I would not have to be the one, but somebody has to do it.
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Could it be your local Sasquatch? They scream and eat pets. It is also mating season. Best make sure the blinds are shut when you shower.
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Could it be your local Sasquatch? They scream and eat pets. It is also mating season. Best make sure the blinds are shut when you shower.
And the doors. Lock the doors.
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Can't account for the cuts on your cat's back but I've been trying to pass a sizable kidney stone for about a week.I'll try to keep the noise down!
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I live in the country and like to have the windows open when I can especially at night in the bedroom. Well one night I heard the most God awful scream outside the bedroom window that woke both me and my wife up out of a sound sleep. I got up and looked out the window and in the light from my garage light was a fox with a rabbit in it's mouth. I'd heard that same scream from rabbits before when I was hunting them and wounded one.
Not saying what you heard was a rabbit but they do let out a horrible scream.
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Got an eye ball on it tonight it's a cat but appeared too big for a bobcat. A small lynx. It heard the misses talk to me with the open window and stopped and stared at us in the house from 90ft away bold as can be. The dog has a different bark when he sees it. This thing has got to go somehow my five yo grandson plays outside. We watch him all the time.

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Now the past week the dog has been going crazy in the house after 12am. The other night he was going from the window in the parlor to me in bed barking back and forth till I got up. I seen nothing. Last night the lynx screamed. Heard this scream before.
My German Shepherd does the same thing when coyotes are howling outside in the middle of the night. She gets nuts to get outside so she can at least bark at them. Since the area around the house is fenced, she can't get out and they would never come close to the house as everyone around here has a gun and knows how to use it so they have not lost their fear of people in this area.
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Could it be your local Sasquatch? They scream and eat pets. It is also mating season. Best make sure the blinds are shut when you shower.
Might be time for a new forest bride.
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Yup I like thems female bigfeets big and hairy. They keeps me warm in the wintertime like a letrikic blanket.
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The only predators around my place last night were a couple who were in shouting match over something. Other than that,its pretty quite in my neck of the woods.
Like Ringo said. I've lived places where loud screaming at 4am meant the people who lived in the apartment above me just got home.
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Yes we do have Lynx around here ! My wife was outside having a smoke and one walked by her not more than 25' away.
P/s Bill I know about were you live and we are only a few miles apart. I live just up from the ball field before the fair grounds.
We also have had bear ,deer and turkeys in the yard.
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