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Alright folks..Seen a bobcat in front of my house and decided to call it up. Called and called and nothing. Did some research and found that a distressed woodpecker call would do the trick. 5 days after seeing it I called it up with the woodpecker call. Couldn't get a shot off in time. Sucks.. Anyway been calling for over a week now and hadn't seen anything. Will it come back after it knows it has been had?
Really wantin' to let the air outta this kitty

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He may not be in the area anymore. Who knows maybe you called him in again and you didn't see him. Kitties are very sneaky

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Cats are usually super sneaky, so a lot of them come to a call that are never seen by the caller. They are also stupid about calls. A coyote learns to avoid calls but cats will come back again, likely several times. Somebody on this forum told of repeatedly calling a radio collared cougar and it never failed to come to a call (though the callers never saw it!) I called the same bobcat twice in one day.

My impression is that bobcats stick to a smallish area except when males are on the move durng the mating season, and sometimes I have gone back and found apparently the same cat.

Not really advice from here but if twere me, I'd quit calling for at least a week or more and meanwhile try to find out if the bobcat is still in the area. If you don't have a trail camera, raking a lengthy patch of every trail you know of around and in his area might get him to show some tracks. Scratch it up just barely enough to make a tracking soil.





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