LoboGunLeather
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Arizona resident came home to find something unusual snoozing in her dog's bed.
Arizona resident comes home to bobcat in dog's bed
Arizona resident comes home to bobcat in dog's bed
Where is that dog?
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Cool story.
They've been seen around my neighborhood, but so far I have not had the good fortune to see one myself.
Hard to believe anyone would be dumb enough to try to handle one...
They've been seen around my neighborhood, but so far I have not had the good fortune to see one myself.
Hard to believe anyone would be dumb enough to try to handle one...
So, where is, what happened, to the dog?
Steve W
Steve W
They hang around our place. Lots of tracks in the snow. They are not frightened of humans as most predators are. I have walked right up to them or had them come up to me. Got a neat picture of our house cat and a bobcat about to mix it up. My wife had to throw pinecones at the bobcat to get it to leave. Neat creatures.
I've had one come up and stare in my closed slider at my old beagle. The cat was right up to the glass and the dog was laying right on the other side. Now I do have solar glass that is fairly reflective if the sun comes from the right direction so the cat could have been looking at itself.
Quoth the story:
"If you're attacked [by a bobcat] you should fight back."
Aside from the "no ****" response, has anyone here had that happen? After 4.5 years in AZ (Tempe, Tucson) seen more than a few, but usually passing through, or occasionally curious but skittish. Google has a few reported, but virtually all were rabid… which explains much.
Also, Iffn one were to find a bobcat in the dog bed, would you break out the Friskies?
"If you're attacked [by a bobcat] you should fight back."
Aside from the "no ****" response, has anyone here had that happen? After 4.5 years in AZ (Tempe, Tucson) seen more than a few, but usually passing through, or occasionally curious but skittish. Google has a few reported, but virtually all were rabid… which explains much.
Also, Iffn one were to find a bobcat in the dog bed, would you break out the Friskies?
I was sitting on the patio one afternoon in Tucson a couple years back, looked up and there was a bobcat sitting on the corner of the patio looking at me about 6 feet away. He checked me out for a couple minutes than went on his way.
I have been around quite a few and never felt threatened. Poked one with a stick that was on a low branch eating an Abert squirrel. However, since everyone now has a cell phone with a video camera, I have seen several videos of bobcats killing deer. Make me rethink my poking experience.
I've yet to see one,but my sis in the foothills had a young mountain lion follow her cat into the house,tear things up a bit and finally find its way back out again. She was on the phone at the time and that had to be the funniest conversation I've ever heard [emoji23]
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Abbynormal
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In Boy Scouts, had a Bobcat screach in the middle of the night while camping. Sounded like a dying child. Searched and found nothing. It was bone chilling and I didn't sleep the rest of the night.
Found out the next day it was a Bobcat from the locals.
Found out the next day it was a Bobcat from the locals.
len917
Member
Could have been a Fisher Cat or male Fox. They both scream like injured children
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LoboGunLeather
US Veteran
If I had to decide what happened to the dog I would have to consider how much work I put into feeding, watering, veterinary visits (OK, there was a little confusion about the testicles issue), cleaning up messes, scratching just the right spot between the ears, then I would take into consideration that the only thing I asked the dog to do that day was to look after the house while I went to work.
What did Dog do? He invited over a friend for an afternoon slumber party using the bed and blanket I bought and paid for, then took the rest of the day off.
I hope Dog is now enjoying free range life around the neighborhood, rooting around in garbage cans at meal times. Maybe he will make new friends with the animal control folks and the shelter staff. I won't be providing a letter of reference as a watch dog while he waits for adoption.
The new cat seems to enjoy the privileges of living here. Nice comfortable bed, couple of meals every day. His idea of playing with the new owner will take some getting used to, but after the stitches are removed I'll see the vet about claws and teeth work. Seems to enjoy having his belly scratched while I watch the evening news. The purring can be loud enough to interrupt my afternoon naps.
We'll see how it goes.
twodog max
Member
I see them fairly often around here. I saw two cross the road last week about two miles from the house.
I have a good friend that had a bobcat jump on him while turkey hunting in Missouri some time back and got scratched up some.
I have had several come to me while calling turkeys here in the mountains but never let one get close enough to jump on me. Also have had fox and coyotes do the same thing.
If you ever have the opportunity to see up close the claws and teeth they have you will not think of them as overgrown housecats again.
I have a good friend that had a bobcat jump on him while turkey hunting in Missouri some time back and got scratched up some.
I have had several come to me while calling turkeys here in the mountains but never let one get close enough to jump on me. Also have had fox and coyotes do the same thing.
If you ever have the opportunity to see up close the claws and teeth they have you will not think of them as overgrown housecats again.
Doug M.
Member
The main difference between house cats and all the bigger ones is that the big ones can do all the damage that the small ones think about. I see a lot of videos about big cats in various sanctuaries and the like, and it is really fascinating to see a tiger, jaguar, or lion acting much the same as a house cat.
JcMack
Member
Yeah cute cat. Dog was severely injured and ran away. Returned home 1 day later and is now at the vet. Owner set up a go fund me to help pay for bills.
My grandmother kept a Lynx cat female for nearly 20 years. She was the family pet but did not like most men outside the family. Tons of stories about the kids playing in the snow with her, my mother said if she licked you more than a couple times in the same spot you would develop a rash that wanted to turn into a scab. The neighbors had an old hound dog, grandma used to put Mitzy out in the yard on a chain clipped to a metal stake pounded a couple feet into the ground. She could run in a circle with a diameter of fifty feet, run for hours. Anything that came within that circle was hers. That old dog would come up the holler from the neighbor's and bark and howl at the cat. The cat would lean against her chain and try to claw him, grandma would go out and throw rocks at the old dog until he wandered off back home. One day grandma hears the dog howling and looks out the window to see that the cat has moved about three feet inside her circle and was ignoring the dog, looking off into the woods, licking her paws, cleaning her face. The old dog kept up howling and grandma knew what that cat was up to. The dog put one foot inside the circle and howled, cat didn't budge. He put the second foot inside the circle, cat continued to ignore. The cat waited until that old dog had all four feet inside her circle, then she reached out and snagged him pulling him deeper into her area and proceeded to go to work. Grandma grabbed a broom and headed out that way to prevent her from killing the dog. She said that cat had got herself on her back and was going to work on the dog in four wheel drive when she got there and separated them. The dog ran off howling. Grandma said that old dog never showed up again, one day she was at the COOP getting a bag of flour and ran into the owner's wife. Grandma had known Mrs. Browning for decades, they had polite conversation and finally grandma asked "By the way, we haven't seen that old dog of yours, how is he doing?" Mrs. Browning said "I don't know what got into that old dog but he hasn't come out from under the porch except to eat for two weeks or more."
