Posted on 03/05/2011 12:35:30 PM PST by smokingfrog
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (CNN) - The search continues for a bobcat that attacked a Florida woman this week.
A man on Friday spotted an animal, believed to be the same bobcat the bit the woman in the leg.
The woman was attacked at her home on Thursday, and her husband came to the rescue.
"It came from the neighbor, jumped his fence, came across the road, bit my wife by the mailbox, jumped my fence, came under here, got my puppy, came in my garage, and attacked my puppy again. I hit it with a four-by-four, and then a broom," Rick Arnold said.
The victim got a series of rabies shots at a hospital, and is now back at home.
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I never thought of bobcats as especially hostile animals. The places where I used to go camping in the hills of southern Indiana is full of them.
Wow, just wow. I see these things from time to time here in Dallas, we have several around local mountain bike trails. Never heard of any agressions from them.
That sucker comes in my garage and goes for me I’ll hit him with more than a 4x4, that part of the house is full of all sorts of pointy and hammery things to smack an animal with. If I did use a 4x4 it would my truck.
A couple live in my old backyard’s woods. I used to call the cops because the bus stop is right at the corner and all of these kids are right there and this bobcat is just sitting there licking its chops...cops would just tell me to stop calling “cat was here first”.
I said I just want it moved out of the area, not killed you idiots.
“Bobcat attacked FL woman”
When will people learn to remove their keys when finished back-hoeing with their Bobcats?
I worked near Naples, FL one winter. Just across a fire canal from the Everglades.
A pretty regular thing to see big “kitty” pawprints in the dirt around the jobsite in the morning.
Rattlesnakes, too!
I’m pretty sure a call like that around here WOULD result in Texas Parks and Wildlife coming out to trap the thing, no problem. It’s their animal after all. Hell, they’ll come get turtles if you have to drain a pond.
You don't have to go camping to be around bobcats. I live about 24 miles from the heart of downtown Los Angeles, and have seen a bobcat in my own backyard; one of my brothers has lived for decades where bobcats are plentiful, and while "Bad Bob," as he calls any resident bobcat, has gotten more than one of his domestic pet cats, Bad Bob has never once bitten any person or dog in the area; on the contrary, Bad Bob has gone out of his way to avoid such confrontations.
I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove a thing.
“bit my wife by the mailbox”
Is that next to the coccyx?
Sadly, the lady’s head will have to be cut off and mailed in so they can check for rabies. We need to come up with a better way.
She’s very lucky Finny. Usually they go for the back of the neck.
That appears to be a fairly large bobcat.
Thats him! Funny how he showed up during the news reporter’s interview. Everyone wants their 15 minutes.
You must be joking.
No, on the other side.
Lots of people in Florida have guns too. We even have ammo for them!
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