I also have a hefty Main Coon male cat....in the 25-pound range, and if you saw him from a hundred feet away...you’d say he was a Bobcat. He stays limited to the house, the balcony and the window.
I almost hit something that looked like your pic on the right with my car on a remote highway in Colorado. It was very sturdily built, the size of a very large dog but more squat, and agile. I braked, it saw me, and effortlessly ran up a steep roadcut that was probably ten feet or more high like it wasn’t even there. For a few brief seconds I was terrified staring this thing down, not knowing how it would react.
My nephew has a big black cat that is somewhere around that weight and size, but it’s not a coon cat.
To the untrained eye it’s easy to see why this cat might be mistaken for a bobcat. I live near DFW in a community that not too many years ago was ranch land. And, bobcats and coyotes are routinely spotted in our community. Naturally, with all the nice green lawns, shrubs, etc, little tender, juicy bunnies abound around here, squirrels too. And, they’re like candy for these predators. That being said though, I enjoy having the wildlife in our community. Folks just have to remember to not leave Little Fluffy out at night, lol!
Had one named EBB, big and fat and kind of simple. Lived for almost 20 years.
I have a mutt who looks just like a Maine coon. I tried to put him out to play in the snow yesterday, thinking he might like it since his feet are naturally insulated against snow—uh-uh, he wouldn’t hear of it.
The cat in the picture looks a lot like him.
Wow..they’re beautiful. I’d like to have one, but I’ve been given orders; no more cats. LOL
(See our herd on bio page. My favorite is our ‘Fancy Feast’ cat)
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.
My Maine Coon around 20 lbs, female, indoor only.This comment is in regards to cat carriers, the best carriers to transport cats in are the ones with a top door, far easier to pick up a cat and drop them into the carrier then to try to get them through the side door. I’m glad I did my research on pet carriers before buying one, the pet carrier I bought with a door on top was one of the best purchases I ever made.
Also bringing a good size box into a room with holes in the side, and letting them jump into and then closing the box and taping it up works pretty good too.
Where Spock mamma been at?