Agreed! I'm hoping he/she sticks around. I've only seen it twice.
Putting a dent in the gray squirrel pop.
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Agreed! I'm hoping he/she sticks around. I've only seen it twice.
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Shark Bait, that is a good looking cat! All the photos I've seen of SW or southern bobcats have had more gray color in them - must be a regional difference in the cats.
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What a beautiful animal. And healthy looking as well.
My grandfather had a saying at planting time—“one for the mole, one for the crow, one to rot, and one to grow.”
They’ve rebounded and prospered so well in population, here in northern New England, that the NH dept of Fish & Game put forth a proposal in 2017 or 16 to open a hunting season for them. I believe it was not to include trapping, but can’t remeber. I’d be open to either as I could or would do either, but respected the non-trap caveat if it was in place. Either way, it got shot down sooooo fast and broadly by the media and non-hunting public at large, it was laughable and entirely predictable by any of us hunters in the know. Poor fish and game went home with their tail
Between their legs remorseful of ever making the ‘suggestion’. Rest assured, that proposition will NEVER arise again. Be surprised if someone didn’t/doesn’t lose their job over that. I respect the predators, but forever there must be a balance....
Big girl like that isn’t limited to fawns. She can ride down a yearling or even older doe not unlike 8 or so men in a 16 foot skiff taking a “Nantucket Sleigh Ride” affixed by harpoon to a sperm whale. Incredible really.
Native Ruffed Grouse and migratory Woodcock are merely easy snacks.
Between their legs remorseful of ever making the ‘suggestion’. Rest assured, that proposition will NEVER arise again. Be surprised if someone didn’t/doesn’t lose their job over that. I respect the predators, but forever there must be a balance....
Big girl like that isn’t limited to fawns. She can ride down a yearling or even older doe not unlike 8 or so men in a 16 foot skiff taking a “Nantucket Sleigh Ride” affixed by harpoon to a sperm whale. Incredible really.
Native Ruffed Grouse and migratory Woodcock are merely easy snacks.
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Texas Star
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The African and Asian equivalent is the bay lynx, called "Rooikat" (Red Cat) in Afrikaans. They're fascinating predators. The ears have quite long tufts, something that scrimshaw artist Linda Karst included in her remarkable portraits of them.
Years ago, "Life" ran a feature using a high speed camera of a rooikat attacking a swarm of birds. It did a high leap and downed about 8 birds in a swirl of motion. Some were probably finished off after they landed, wounded. Even one big guinea fowl would be a meal, but they're killing machines. Like leopards, they'll sometimes ravage a barn of lambs, taking only one with them.
All cats are master predators. I love watching YouTube videos of leopards hunting antelope and sometimes, baboons. And avoiding lions and baboon troops out to kill them.
Some of you have read Jean Auel's books about Ayla, the Cro-Magnon girl. Her "spirit animal" was a Pleistocene lion. Some Amerindian tribes also believe in spirit animals that the Indians believe they have a spiritual connection with. I'm Anglo, but understand that belief. My spirit animal is probably the leopard. I admire their skills and ability to exist where never suspected. The leopard is a master of survival.
BTW, we once had real lions in North America. (Panthera atrox, bigger than Panthera (Leo) leo in Africa and NW India. I think the last died out about 11,000 years ago. How'd you like to face that or a Short-faced bear without firearms? Early men here had that task.
Years ago, "Life" ran a feature using a high speed camera of a rooikat attacking a swarm of birds. It did a high leap and downed about 8 birds in a swirl of motion. Some were probably finished off after they landed, wounded. Even one big guinea fowl would be a meal, but they're killing machines. Like leopards, they'll sometimes ravage a barn of lambs, taking only one with them.
All cats are master predators. I love watching YouTube videos of leopards hunting antelope and sometimes, baboons. And avoiding lions and baboon troops out to kill them.
Some of you have read Jean Auel's books about Ayla, the Cro-Magnon girl. Her "spirit animal" was a Pleistocene lion. Some Amerindian tribes also believe in spirit animals that the Indians believe they have a spiritual connection with. I'm Anglo, but understand that belief. My spirit animal is probably the leopard. I admire their skills and ability to exist where never suspected. The leopard is a master of survival.
BTW, we once had real lions in North America. (Panthera atrox, bigger than Panthera (Leo) leo in Africa and NW India. I think the last died out about 11,000 years ago. How'd you like to face that or a Short-faced bear without firearms? Early men here had that task.
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Hee Hee,
My spirit animal is the rabbit, or Hare. And just because I love them and have soft spot, doesn’t mean I won’t eat them, because they are delicious, But, I will not consciously kill or hunt them. Just a weird principle thing.
Way off thread topic.
All squirrels must DIE!
I wouldn’t hesitate for a second to drop an over-populating Predator cat like a Bob. Not in my area and not with the blessing of Wild-life management. Couldn’t think of a cooler mount, and if I was more into trapping fur-bearers besides rodentia’s like beaver and muskrat, I might get after them that way too. But I don’t do leg-hold.
My spirit animal is the rabbit, or Hare. And just because I love them and have soft spot, doesn’t mean I won’t eat them, because they are delicious, But, I will not consciously kill or hunt them. Just a weird principle thing.
Way off thread topic.
All squirrels must DIE!
I wouldn’t hesitate for a second to drop an over-populating Predator cat like a Bob. Not in my area and not with the blessing of Wild-life management. Couldn’t think of a cooler mount, and if I was more into trapping fur-bearers besides rodentia’s like beaver and muskrat, I might get after them that way too. But I don’t do leg-hold.
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Oh: yes, I know a man who liked Bunnies. His name was Hugh Hefner and he built a publishing, merchandise, and club empire on a Bunny head image.
How do you "unconsciously" kill rabbits and hares? Do you sleepwalk with a shotgun, or have you got a bobcat trained to get them for your kitchen?
When your finished, send her down to my house. I spent $1600 last year to keep the **** things out of my attic.
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Ouch! I'll put the request in! But if she doesn't go, get a couple SQRTO Squirrelinator Traps for $50 a piece:
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Google youtube videos for this thing - looks like they work really well.
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Oh: yes, I know a man who liked Bunnies. His name was Hugh Hefner and he built a publishing, merchandise, and club empire on a Bunny head image.
How do you "unconsciously" kill rabbits and hares? Do you sleepwalk with a shotgun, or have you got a bobcat trained to get them for your kitchen?
I accidentally step on them with my size 14 boots.
Or pet them to death like Lenny.
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What do you take down, with your spirit animal skills, when you morph ‘leopard’?
susieqz
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feral cats are superb predators.
no squirrels here, but my currently tamed cat has eliminated the evil bunny population.
she only weighs 6 1/2 lbs n kills bunnies who must be 3 lbs.
she stalks much like your bobcat, then leaps on one n wrestles it
til she can get her jaws on the back of the bunny's neck.
that ends the fight.
she then eats the whole thing.
drifter was born in the bush n spent the first year of her life feeding herself.
she prefers bunnies to cat food.
since bunnies have cost me more than $300, i love her more for killing them, even tho i no longer get to shoot them.
all professional hunters have amazing skills.
no squirrels here, but my currently tamed cat has eliminated the evil bunny population.
she only weighs 6 1/2 lbs n kills bunnies who must be 3 lbs.
she stalks much like your bobcat, then leaps on one n wrestles it
til she can get her jaws on the back of the bunny's neck.
that ends the fight.
she then eats the whole thing.
drifter was born in the bush n spent the first year of her life feeding herself.
she prefers bunnies to cat food.
since bunnies have cost me more than $300, i love her more for killing them, even tho i no longer get to shoot them.
all professional hunters have amazing skills.
