What affects us affects cats
This video caught my eye. It is a bobcat attacking a deer. Or that is what it looks like. There could be a discussion as to whether this is a bobcat or a young cougar because the image quality is poor. However, based upon the cat’s size and the length of its tail, my …
I can’t watch this video (I checked out some individual frames). I don’t expect a lot of cat lovers to watch it either because it is upsetting to most people. But it is interesting in the sense that the bobcat fights back. I feel a duty to show it on this site. There is …
Cooperative hunting by bobcats seems to be rare. A courting pair of bobcats were tracked hunting together. They were tracked through snow. They visited several spruce plantations where there were snowshoe hares. In each place: “the cats moved through the plantation about 10 to 15 meters apart and appeared to alternate stopping as the …
This article has been recycled to the front of the queue in this blog as blog posts tend to become invisible over time. A bobcat attack on a person, I would assume, is very rare for the simple reason that we are not naturally prey to a bobcat. How can we be? But the …
Do bobcats eat cats? This is another question that people ask on the Internet. I have to presume that “cats” means domestic cats, in which case the answer is, Yes, the bobcat is certainly able to attack, catch and eat a domestic cat. My guess is that it is rare, however, for a bobcat …
Very recently, two attacks by two iconic American wild cats on domestic cats have taken place in California. In both instances the domestic cat survived. But I have since decided that this appears to be all hype or the reporting is misleading. Read on please. CBS reports a mountain lion attack on a domestic …
This concerns the bobcat that found its way into the garage of a Brookfield, Massachusetts resident on Sunday 6th January 2013. It is not unusual for bobcats to wander around suburbia or into people’s yards etc. This is because people build properties on the home ranges of bobcats. Liz (Hairless Cat) picked this story …
