Excellent video - very enjoyable and educative. Thanks. Although they are very shy and quick to leave once encountered, I have seen quite a few Bobcats in the high forest during the past 30 years - and a few up close after elimination due to troubles. That youngiish one looked a bit different from others I have seen - and I have never (knowingly) seen a Lynx. Might that be a Lynx??
Excellent video - very enjoyable and educative. Thanks. Although they are very shy and quick to leave once encountered, I have seen quite a few Bobcats in the high forest during the past 30 years - and a few up close after elimination due to troubles. That youngiish one looked a bit different from others I have seen - and I have never (knowingly) seen a Lynx. Might that be a Lynx??
Originally Posted by jeffbird
Originally Posted by CCCC
Might that be a Lynx??
The ear tufts and comparatively large paws relative to the body looks like a young lynx.
Excellent video - very enjoyable and educative. Thanks. Although they are very shy and quick to leave once encountered, I have seen quite a few Bobcats in the high forest during the past 30 years - and a few up close after elimination due to troubles. That youngiish one looked a bit different from others I have seen - and I have never (knowingly) seen a Lynx. Might that be a Lynx??
Originally Posted by jeffbird
Originally Posted by CCCC
Might that be a Lynx??
The ear tufts and comparatively large paws relative to the body looks like a young lynx.
Love seeing a damned serpent get what's coming to him. Thanks for posting.
I'll feel the same when Trump trounces Biden.
Are you calling Biden "A snake in the grass"?
Originally Posted by Leanwolf
Originally Posted by Bristoe
I'd guess that rattlesnakes are one of that cat's favorite meals. That wasn't his first time. He's learned that they're easy to track, don't require a lot of energy to kill,...and tasty.
Tastes kinda like chicken.
L.W.
Deep fried - it really does (at least to me)!
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
One heck of a video, make me think of the old saying "quicker than a cat" he smacked that rattler on every strike attempt, right in the head, impressive.
persiandog; Good afternoon to you sir, I hope the day's as clear and still down in Idaho as it is here and all else is as it should be in your world.
Thanks for sharing the video, that's indeed impressive on the cat's part!
We live in snake country and in nearly 30 years of living here we've only had one rattler on the place, while they used to be quite common on the road going past our drive.
My contention after doing some reading on it, as well as watching our house cats drag blue racers and gopher snakes down into the horse pen and beat on them, was that the house cats must lay down a scent trail around their territory and the rattlers can pick up on it and find other more healthy places to be.
I might be wrong about that, but it seems the most logical explanation in my mind.
Regardless, thanks again for the video and all the best to you this fall.
I love a bobcat. What a badass. I had a friend down in Georgia who used to eat rattlesnake. Deep fat fried, I ate rattlesnake with Jerry several times and it was good. Jerry was an RN, worked the midnight shift at Baldwin County Hospital. He took in, at shift change at 11 pm, a plate full of fried rattlesnake chunks. He wouldn't tell the nurses what it was, but they all had a bite or two.
Then he said "I tricked you it is fried rattlesnake." Several of the girls vomited. I wonder why Jerry couldn't get a date.
Snake-breath?
I had a cat that was pure death on squirrels. He would stalk the squirrel until it ducked up a tree. They often go up a few feet and peek around the opposite side. The cat had it down, baby, and would snatch that squirrel on the airbourne pass-by.
