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What can happen with good cammo and the wind in your face?

Beaudreaux

Beaudreaux

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A Bobcat may walk right up to you and both of you get the surprise of your lives - no Bobcats or hunters were hurt - although there was no confirmable report on underwear cleanliness afterwards:

 
Bobcats aren't a big deal. My mother had one as a pet when she was a kid.
 
Cephus said:
Bobcats aren't a big deal. My mother had one as a pet when she was a kid.
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That's easy to say if you're not a kitty cat or a chihuahua!:lol:

We rarely see them in town down here but on the outskirts and such they're fairly common. As a rule you definitely need to be looking for one if you want to see it and it's a rare thing indeed to have one walk up to you like in the video.
 
Lutherf said:
That's easy to say if you're not a kitty cat or a chihuahua!:lol:

We rarely see them in town down here but on the outskirts and such they're fairly common. As a rule you definitely need to be looking for one if you want to see it and it's a rare thing indeed to have one walk up to you like in the video.
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I don't have bobcats in this area but we have lots of coyotes and a few cougars. The coyotes don't care about people, they're a bit skitterish but they'll come up to you if you're not threatening. I have them right outside my house all the time. Never tried that with a cougar, probably wouldn't be that crazy.
 
Cephus said:
I don't have bobcats in this area but we have lots of coyotes and a few cougars. The coyotes don't care about people, they're a bit skitterish but they'll come up to you if you're not threatening. I have them right outside my house all the time. Never tried that with a cougar, probably wouldn't be that crazy.
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A cougar doesn't care too much how big you are and if it's hungry you never know what it will do. A bobcat is way too small to even be interested in attacking an adult but it will defend itself.

WRT coyotes, I have no intention of making them feel at home. They're flea factories and get way too comfortable in your territory if you let them though, admittedly, your pack rat population will likely decrease dramatically with them around.
 
Lutherf said:
A cougar doesn't care too much how big you are and if it's hungry you never know what it will do. A bobcat is way too small to even be interested in attacking an adult but it will defend itself.

WRT coyotes, I have no intention of making them feel at home. They're flea factories and get way too comfortable in your territory if you let them though, admittedly, your pack rat population will likely decrease dramatically with them around.
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We've got tons of rats, rabbits, possums, they're all very well fed. We have 10 acres of orange groves and a pack of our own living in it. They love to come up and eat avocados, I have a big tree right outside of the window I'm next to right now, they spend a lot of time in the summer laying under it. They used to go into the back yard in the middle of the night to eat dog food and get water and I could sit on the back steps and play with coyote pups.

The cougars, you see them way off in the distance and that's about it.
 
Cephus said:
Bobcats aren't a big deal. My mother had one as a pet when she was a kid.
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The mother Bobcat behind my house would tend to disagree with that. She's taken down animals a hell of a lot larger than she is - deer, coyotes, cows.
 
Beaudreaux said:
A Bobcat may walk right up to you and both of you get the surprise of your lives - no Bobcats or hunters were hurt - although there was no confirmable report on underwear cleanliness afterwards:

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We used to get those when i lived in the cali desert, they would hang around my parents house and try to rob the fish pond in the front yard. Ofcourse we did not fear them, usually if spotted they would hiss and run like cowards. THE CATS WE FEARED WERE THE MOUNTAIN LIONS, they were not mean normally and very shy, but if you accidentally corner one or their habitat was taken by construction, they get mean.
 
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