Baby bobcat wanders into Marin living room

Contra Costa Times ^ | 07/07/2009 | Mark Prado

[devane617]

Yep, and then the world will turn upside down like it did when the chimp attacked the lady a few months ago. Bobcats are wild animals, and vicious! Best left in the woods.

[OldDeckHand]

"We had a pair of half-wolf dogs in the 80s that were as gentile and loving as could be, although they were quite large and strong. (and always hungry)"

I think it's the "and always hungry" part that gives me great pause.

[editor-surveyor]

They were the ofspring of a friend’s husky bitch that got raped by a grey wolf that dropped in for a social call. Huskies are also always hungry.

[freekitty]

true

[3niner]

Granted, dogs are safer than wolves, and domesticated cats are safer than wild ones, but all are potentially deadly if the relative sizes are close enough. Small dogs generally only kill babies.

[3niner]

Granted, dogs are safer than wolves, and domesticated cats are safer than wild ones, but all are potentially deadly if the relative sizes are close enough. Small dogs generally only kill babies.

[PA Engineer]

A couple of Bobcat pics.

Baby Bobcat



Adults are somewhat varied in the appearance of their fur.



They are larger than a house cat, but small for "wildcats". I would like to emphasize "wild". Not a pet. We have a female who roams around our parts. I have seen here a number of times (diurnal) and the cat is a very beautiful animal. During the mating season the male scenting could knock you over. They hit our barn once. This is a wild animal and generally is very elusive. If you live in a rural area you probably have them and not seen them. The females range in an area of 50 square miles.

[PERKY2004]

Tigger only PRETENDS to be a bobcat!

[nickcarraway]

You took the time to get all the hair off the toads?

[kalee]

We couldn’t get it all off. I was afraid the fur may have messed up their sticky coating and their ability to get oxygen. Toads are cutaneous respirators. They breathe through their skin. My husband says they disappeared from where he put them ouside, so either they got back into the wildlife or a predator got them.

[nickcarraway]

That sounds like a really funny image. How long did you spend? Was it covered in fur? Did you consider taking it to Super Cuts?

[the OlLine Rebel]

“half-wolf dogs in the 80s that were as gentile”

So wolves are usually Jewish?

[nickcarraway]

[editor-surveyor]

Sorry!

I don’t know what I was thinking there...

[kalee]

LOL

[kalee]

Spiders, flies, other bugs and wasps found inside get a spray of insecticide or swatted with a swatter.

The poor little toads were sort of cute and trust me they had been traumatized enough. The cats are usually pretty deadly predators, they play their prey to death. The little toads survived the cats, the least we could do was try to see that they could breathe and were returned to their natural habitat.
Yes they had lots of fur attached to them, but we just sort of gave them a quick brush with paper towels and returned them to the garden. I was afraid to put them in water to try to wash it off.

[Lauren BaRecall]

Hey guys, check out these pictures!

http://lilyseed.com/gallery.html

[Slings and Arrows]

LOL! I should show that to my moth defense technicians.