A Michael Broad Blog
Very occasionally, you can read a story on the Internet about a person finding a wild cat kitten (cub). In America, this might more typically be a bobcat kitten. It might appear to the person that the kitten’s mother has abandoned her offspring. She takes in the kitten because she wants to do the …
There is a bit of concern over the difference between normal domestic kittens, the offspring of a house cat, and bobcat kittens because in America it is possible to bump into bobcat kittens and mistake them for ordinary kittens. It can happen as evidenced by a story two years ago from Texas. Three people …
I am going to take a different stance on this story which is about a woman driving along on Sept 20th in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA when a bobcat kitten darted across the road. She left her vehicle and checked the animal which she had first thought was a rabbit. The kitten did not run …
For how long is a bobcat pregnant? Gestation lasts about sixty-three days – Wild Cats of the World by Mel and Fiona Sunquist. The average litter sizes range from 2.5 to 3.9 kittens. Litters as large as six have been recorded. Young females have smaller litters than older females. Source: Wild Cats of the …
For me this is a really nice picture. The beautiful but persecuted American bobcat is here tucked up nicely inside a tree trunk. This looks like two mothers and their kittens having a peaceful and hopefully safe sleep. This is not a male and female with kittens. Disagree? Please leave a comment. The average …
Florida, USA: There is a moral to this story and it is made by the Back to Nature Wildlife Refuge and Education Center. “If a citizen spots a displaced, injured, or orphaned wild bobcat, the first thing they should do is contact their local wildlife rehabilitation facility for advice to determine if the animal …
SAN ANTONIO: a woman has been issued with a citation (a criminal charge without an arrest) for taking a pair of bobcat kittens from their mother. She lied about it. She said that she found the kittens in an alleyway in San Antonio when in fact there were taken from the attic of a …
A sweet three-week-old bobcat kitten was rescued when a man was bulldozing his property. The kitten appeared. The kitten was rescued. She was put into a carrier. For some reason the man put his hand into the carrier perhaps to grab hold of the kitten to bring her out and, guess what, the kitten …
