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Re: Bobcat

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
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You might remember my mentioning having seen a bobcat last summer. It raced across the highway well ahead of us toward sunset, so we didn't see it well. It seemed huge though, and it's stubby little tail was clearly silhouetted.

I saw another one today, just a mile down my street. It wasn't huge, and it walked slowly across the road and into the snow. I slowed way down and it was still there, maybe ten feet off the road looking at me, again with one of those stubby little tails. (The photo to the left is NOT one that I took. But the cat looked like that.)

Now, I'm no expert. MAYBE it wasn't a bobcat. Are there ordinary cats that have that kind of tail? Would they be walking around at this time of year, going casually into the snowy forest? I doubt it. Around here, cats out in the open get eaten by bigger things.

But unlike the last bobcat, this one was small enough to be a regular cat. A very big one, but still a regular cat.





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By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Sun, 13 Jun 21 1:30 AM 		Msg. 18672 of 58634


My wife and I saw a bobcat run across the road as we drove home today. I'm reading that bobcats weigh between 20 and 30 pounds. I'd have pegged it as far bigger (50 pounds), but per the information below, it's unlikely to have been anything but a bobcat. Still, pretty cool.

In New Hampshire, the bobcat population probably numbers in the hundreds. It is the only large cat species still found in any significant numbers in the state.
http://nhpbs.org/wild/bobcat.asp

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