I haven’t seen any bobcats in my neighborhood, but there are scores of coyotes and foxes. I am never without a weapon.
Good advice in the article. While walking your dog carry a stick to ear off wild animals OR ANIMALS THAT ARE RABID. Sound advice there
Poor kitty. Bobcats don’t bother me and the foxes don’t either. Coyotes I do watch out for.
The bobcats pop in and out of the storm drains, the foxes stick close to the houses.
Chased down a bobcat once. I was mowing and wearing nothing but cutoffs. I had chickens at the time. Not sure what I was thinking. Taken on bear and yote and hogs, cats are different.
Florida Man!
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~~ Mike Tyson ~~
Been living in Tampa for 36 years, and haven’t encountered any bobcats, yet.
However, there were reports in the gated private community I live in of a bobcat that had jumped over a fence into our community, and we were all on the alert, but, never found it. After that report, we haven’t had any ducks in our ponds,and we all wonder what happened to them.
This is one time the father is probably glad that he took the dog for a walk rather than the daughter.
Several years ago, in our rural state, a guy went outside to bring in some firewood for the evening. A bobcat jumped out of a tree and attacked him. I recall, as the story goes, he choked the cat to death as it was trying to claw him to death.
The Sheriff’s deputy said that if the man hadn’t being wearing a Carhart long-sleeved shirt, the cat would have probably done some major damage and possibly killed the guy. For Christmas that year, I purchased my husband a Carhart shirt and jacket.
What kind of self respecting terrier has to have is owner save him from a cat?! Oh, the shame...
20 years ago, or so, in the nearby mountains, a woman let her dog out and ended up with a bobcat, in her house, when she let the dog in.
Tore her and the dog up, but, good.
There was a whole clan of them in the hollow behind her house.
All rabid.
They got them all.
At least a dozen.
John Wayne gives hat tip