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Sometimes I forget this isn't exactly the suburbs.
I looked out my window just now and saw the most beautiful cat: big and tawny with half a tail and subtle spots on its tan coat and black running down its legs. I said "hello, what a beautiful cat you are? Who are you?"
Then I realized it wasn't a house cat at all.
It was a bobcat.
Huh. In the past week I've seen a million raccoons, a beautiful young buck with his antlers just about 8 or 9" long standing in my yard, and now Monsieur Bobcat. This... doesn't bode real well for Hector, although he's bigger than the standard bobcat prey and this one wasn't all that big. But it would probably have been enough to chase my cat away.
No more letting the cats out, I think, no matter what they want. Fortunately, Jack and Klondike stick really close to home and the wild critters don't sit around the front door eating Science Diet dry food (except for the raccoons and opossums and skunks). I know. We used to have foxes living in the side yard. They'd growl at me at night when I went to take out the trash.
I looked out my window just now and saw the most beautiful cat: big and tawny with half a tail and subtle spots on its tan coat and black running down its legs. I said "hello, what a beautiful cat you are? Who are you?"
Then I realized it wasn't a house cat at all.
It was a bobcat.
Huh. In the past week I've seen a million raccoons, a beautiful young buck with his antlers just about 8 or 9" long standing in my yard, and now Monsieur Bobcat. This... doesn't bode real well for Hector, although he's bigger than the standard bobcat prey and this one wasn't all that big. But it would probably have been enough to chase my cat away.
No more letting the cats out, I think, no matter what they want. Fortunately, Jack and Klondike stick really close to home and the wild critters don't sit around the front door eating Science Diet dry food (except for the raccoons and opossums and skunks). I know. We used to have foxes living in the side yard. They'd growl at me at night when I went to take out the trash.
