Posted on 07/28/2019 5:30:15 PM PDT by SJackson
ust in case you’re tempted by that adorable wild creature … don’t pet the bobcat in the park.
The National Park Service posted a public service announcement Wednesday telling people that bobcats are not pets.
They advise that visitors to the parks should resist the urge to pet and hold young bobcats, regardless of how cute they might be. They can claw and bite.
Keep wildlife wild says the park service.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission includes bobcat (Lynx rufus) on its list of wild animals in the state.
The National Park Service maintains three areas in Southwestern Pa.: Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville; Fort Necessity National Battlefield in Farmington; and Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site in Cresson.
Looks like kitty played with a porcupine. I talked to a government trapper that said he’d never skinned out a cougar that didn’t have some quills embedded in it. Curiosity and kitties....
It depends on the Cougar.
Any Leftist stupid enough to pet wild animals deserves whatever bills the ER issues. Any animal control costs should also be rendered. Perhaps the knowledge that the animal will be put down will dissuade some air heads.
Stayed at a B&B just up the hill from the Bite back in 2006. They had numerous stuffed bobcats in the common area. BTW, the Bite is now in town, just off the Plaza area.
Custer is a SD state park, not a national park.
A neighbor had skunks under their shed.
When the kits started coming out in the evening she would feed them and pet them!!!
I don’t mind the critters in her yard but my dogs and a trail cam know they often visit my yard.
It is a lot of work to bury chicken wire around everything!
But I do it.
Had a cat that like to chase skunks ……..
Got sprayed once
Was rather aromatic for few weeks
Had a cat that like to chase skunks ……..
Got sprayed once
Was rather aromatic for few weeks
If someone wants to get close to a bobcat around here, all they need to do is put a small, yippy, dog in their backyard. A hungry bobcat may soon appear. Other neighborhood wildlife includes a fox (leaves folks alone) coyotes, and of course various small animals for them all to eat.
Just returned from Yellowstone. Apparently people had pepper spray that was marketed as bear repellent. They sprayed it on their bodies to keep the bears away. It sure worked. Not many bears in the Emergency Room.
The Public Service commercials here is Texas encourage you to hug Smokey after you have doused your campfire.
My father used to tell my brother and I that ‘it is easier to catch a bobcat than it is to let go of it.’ Of course, he said it allegorically as my brother and I were attempting some dumb stunt that he knew wouldn’t end well but the visual image always made be smile.
Go Bobcats!!! :o)
My cat was outside making cat fight noises, (which he never does) so I went out on the deck and called him. “Here kitty kitty”. I could see him about 20 feet from me in the shadows of the woods. “Here kitty kitty”..... just then my cat comes walking up from behind me on the deck.
I look at him, then the cat in the shadows. As the shadow cat was slinking off in the woods I realized he was about twice the size of my cat. Yeah, he was the bobcat we hear occasionally.
The bobcats will remind them more effectively...
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