From a year and a half or so ago*:
A 38-pound pet bobcat escaped from its New Jersey home over the weekend, three months after its last escape and less than three weeks after its owner vowed it would never get loose again, police tell NBC 4 New York.
Police say the bobcat, named Rocky, escaped from Virginia Fine’s Ocean County home Saturday morning.
A complaint from a neighbor prompted a response from the township’s Animal Control, which issued a summons to Fine for the animal “running at large.” Fine managed to corral Rocky after about an hour.
*POOR Rocky is now a resident of Popcorn park Zoo.
Gracious! Since *Rocky* was semi-domesticated...maybe he’d not do well out on his own, in the wild.