Posted on 04/09/2015 6:06:44 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
Massachusetts actually. For now. We be looking at gittin' to Tennessee asap.
Largest bobcat I’ve ever seen, and they run through my yard in Florida all the time.
BOBCAT jokes......
It’s been bobbed.
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‘Old’ Standard Chestnut punch line to ‘animal’ joke - after a dog fight.
“What in the Hell was that”
“Well before I bobbed its tail and glued hair on it, it was a gator”
Or something like that...
Like the guy going into jail and on the first night a voice in the night said “17” and there was a round of laughter.
It continues and the guy - even knowing the ‘rules’ of starting a conversation with ones bunk mate (a Bubba rule) - said
“What is going on”
“Well once you have been in jail for a while you hear ALL the jokes so we came up with a system that simplifies it and saves energy and words” (I know, All Bubba’s talk like that) “so we numbered them”
“Oh, I see......pause..... 49.”
Silence.
More silence.
“Oh well, BNG, some of us can tell em and some of us can’t”
It looks big to me, too. I wish there was something else in the photo to give us some perspective.
In 2013 I had an uncomfortably close encounter with a mama bobcat and her kits in a copse of trees near my home here in the middle of town. My English Setter weighs 60lbs and he is at least three times the size she was, so I am guessing she weighed 20lbs at the very most, likely closer to 15lbs. Maybe it’s an illusion, but the cat in the picture seems huge in comparison to the bobcat I saw.
Yes.....outside of the cropped tail, looked more like a mountain lion or something.
That is not a Bobcat, that is a Panther.
Ha ha.
That appears to be a cross breed. Bobcats have shorter necks and body structure. This looks like a cougar with either a tail deformation/injury or a cross with a bobcat.
“Technically, a shark. But really? Around here we call them dogfish.”
In New Jersey, they are also called dogfish. Used to catch them when I was fishing the Jersey shore. Would steal my striper rigs. They are fun to catch.
Looks like cat had a real treat lined up for himself.
"First off - a lion, swimming in the ocean? Lions don't like water! If you'd placed it near a river or some other fresh water source, that would make sense. But you find youself in the ocean - twenty-foot wave? I'm assuming it's off the coast of South Africa - coming up against a full grown, 800-lb tuna, with his twenty or thirty friends? You lose that battle. You lose that battle nine times out of ten. And guess what? You've wandered into a school of tuna, and we now have a taste of lion. We've talked to ourselves, we've communicated and said "You know what? Lion tastes good. Let's go get some more lion." And we've developed a system to establish a beachhead and aggressively hunt you and your family. We will corner your pride, your children, your offspring. We will construct a series of breathing apparatus with kelp. We will be able to trap certain amounts of oxygen. It's not going to be days at a time, but an hour, hour forty-five? No problem. That will give us enough time to figure out where you live, go back to the sea, get more oxygen, and then stalk you. You just lost at your own game. You are out-gunned, and out-manned."
-- Detective Allan Gamble, The Other Guys
Yeah, that’s a puma. I bet the missing tail caused the confusion, because bobcats have very short tails that look almost like that.
Those big cats, also called cougars, are native to North America. And they are at the top of the natural food chain.
Top of the food chain bump.
Unless I am missing something, what you indicate is true if the photographer were facing roughly south when the photo was taken. However, the inverse would be true if the photographer was facing roughly north when the photo was taken.
From the account in the excerpt, I figured the photographer was facing roughly north with the setting sun generally to his left/west. In that case, the shadows would seem to be consistent with the sun setting on that beach.
Do you know which way the photographer was facing?
That’s why they are called Bobcats
They live in the woods just like mountain lions in other states. I had one living across the street from me for awhile. eating the feral hogs.
Please ignore my prior reply. It doesn’t make a damn bit of sense. I was confused and agree with your assessment.
PETA protest to follow......
That is the most bizarre thing I have read in the last 90 seconds.
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