Posted on 07/07/2009 10:27:39 AM PDT by nickcarraway
When the Cox family of Novato unpacked from a weekend coast trip, they were initially humored by what looked like a small kitten that had sneaked in through a front door they had propped open as they brought bags inside.
"My son J.D. said, 'Look, a kitten came in the house,'" said Kim Cox, recalling the events that occurred about noon Sunday. "We all thought it was a kitten, and he was wandering around the living room. But then it freaked out and hid underneath the couch."
The Coxes, a self-described "dog family," then called friend Sue Hunt, who is more of a cat person.
"I got over there, and we tried to get it out with some brooms," recalled Hunt, who lives a couple miles away.
"At first we could kind of move him, but then he really dug in. It was a strong little thing."
Then it began to growl, and quite loudly. "For its size, it was pretty loud," Hunt said. She then went in for a closer look and saw that this kitten had spots - like a bobcat.
"It turned out it was a bobcat," Cox said. "First I thought this thing was cute, then I got a little scared. What if its mother was around looking for it?" The Cox family lives on Butterfield Drive, which abuts Mount Burdell. Apparently the baby bobcat - which looked like a 4-month-old kitten - meandered down off the mountain and into the Cox home.
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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.
I think it's the "and always hungry" part that gives me great pause.
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.
true
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.
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.
You took the time to get all the hair off the toads?
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.
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?
“half-wolf dogs in the 80s that were as gentile”
So wolves are usually Jewish?
Sorry!
I don’t know what I was thinking there...
LOL
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.
LOL! I should show that to my moth defense technicians.
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