Bobcat Pics!

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Zena
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Shyla
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Bobby
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omg, that first pic is the cutest thing i've ever seen... GREAT pics Kori!

does the bobcat live with you?

dude...thats awesome! howd you get bobcats? how do they compare to other more common pet cats? nice pics!

Yes, 4 of them and they are very naughty!

Great pics! They are adorable.

I rescued them from a kitty mill, didn't know what I was getting myself into but they are awsome.
Very affectionate but very naughty.

We were taling about them in a different thread yesterday and Ironhead? I think stated that he had 2 of them growing up and asked me to post pics.

anything that lives, breathes, eats and sleeps... i love the pics. :)

What adorable little creatures! I never would have thought bobcats would make good pets..lol.. I've always wanted a mountain lion..do you think that will be possible in the future? :-D

kitty kitty kitty i want to pet the kitty

All of those pics are awesome. That first one is simply adorable. How big will the get?


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Well, Im not exactly sure yet!

The average between 35-45# rite now, I got them in this last summer as babies and really can't get much info since I really don't know what their parents were.
I have a friend who is a vet so I've had some help at home since I can't really bring them to a clinic...............Not legal in my city!

Wow, those look awesome! Now THAT'S a cat!

Kori....Very beautiful cat's. Bring's back many memories.

Emroul.....Anything is possible. I have a friend up here in Illinois that has 2 mountain lions. And around here they are very cheap to feed because of all the deer that get hit around here. Whenever a deer is hit and the person that hit it does not want it, my friends are immediately called by the police dispatcher to tell them they have another donation of meat for thier kitties. Some years they actually have to refuse the donation because of no freezer space.

Kori,
Those pics are great!!.

Wow, that's great to know, Ironhead. Thanks :) Maybe I'll move up to Illinios....LOL, I'll have to think about it, LOL...

Thanks for the info :)
Jennifer

How big do they get? And do they eat a lot? Cats are second only to herps for me. Instead of a dog I can get a big kitty!

Not really sure yet how big they will get as we aren't sure what they are mixed with, we think they are part maine coon and are guessing they will be about 35-55 #'s or so..............

They eat me out of house and home! I know they eat more than the regular cat we have but with 10 cats overall I just keep feeding!

From what I've heard, most of the "wild" cats really do not make very good pets, even if hybridized with a domestic cat. It's pretty much a lot like the wolf hybrids that were very popular for a while. You not only tend to get the size and the look of the wild stock in the mix, you also tend to get some of the wild temperament, which often isn't very conducive to getting along well with humans.

Just think of it... not only do you get a cat that claws the furniture, but it also has no qualms about kicking your butt when you try to get after it for clawing the furniture...

Ive always wanted a cougar too.There were some people in town that had one once-i was told it was like a dog,it would play wrestle in the yard with them sometimes,but the neighbours were scared it might eat a kid so they were forced to move or get rid of it.Im told they moved.

Back where we used to live in California, there was a guy who had a number of "rescued" cougars. He had a ranch where he kept them, and they were known in the local area as "Big John's Cats". What disgusted most of us, though, was the idiots that, either from fear or from some twisted sense of "macho", had to take shots at the cats in their enclosures.

Near Riverside, California, when I was a little kid, there was a place that kept exotic animals for use in the movies. The same kind of idiots used to shoot them from the roadway. I guess they had some warped idea of being a "big game hunter" because they could shoot a trained African or Asian animal as it went about its daily life in a fenced enclosure.

Twits.

kinda makes you wish you could shoot back.

Hoomi, that's awful. I think I would've started sitting near the enclosure with a rifle and firing back. I'm pretty sure it's a clear case of self-defense if they shoot at you first on your own property and they're not John Law.

I've been throught the keeping wild animals before, we had a tundra wolf years back and I had a neighbor that called on us constantly in fear that my harmless puppy was going to eat his grandchildren!
Crazy, I took "Sniper" to work with me at the elderly home as well as having my 5th child born in that house and he was with it from birth on and never hurt anyone, in fact he was afraid of most, especially men.
I don't have any problems so far with the cats but they don't howl at the moon either and they mostly stay indoors, with the wolf there really is no way of telling until death what % they are so it was hard for them to make me give him up but I finally did as soon as I found the proper home for him.
The cats on the other hand are very easy to tell they are not domestic!

But, I have NO fear that they would hurt anyone at all,they are very affectionate and don't bother any of the other creatures in my home.................
They don't scratch anything but their posts but they do tend to drag things around the house like clothing, kids toys, paper towel rolls, a loaf of bread..................about anything they can get their paws on to play with.........................they don't chew it up, they just put it in my path to trip over!