BOBCAT! - Chasing a Rabbit in our yard!!
 

We just had an amazing experience!

First a rabbit came thru our yard and hid out in some bushes. Shortly afterward I saw what I thought was the rabbit again. I went out to get a closer look and found it was a BOBCAT !

The Bobcat was paying no mind to be being with 20 feet, it was focused on that bunny in the bushes! I crept back to the house to grab my phone (camera) and then it started to rain hard. I got back to the Bobcat and got one photo of it sitting quiet, then the bunny darted out - THE CHASE WAS ON! I tried to get pictures but the pouring rain and the speed if these two prevented me from doing very well.

The rabbit got away and the Bobcat returned to brush and the wilds behind our home.

Photo 1) Bobcat stationary - looking at rabbit in the brush to my right

Photo 2) The rabbit jumped from the brush and ran to my right, the bobcat (back end - it was quick) lunging to the right.

Photo 3) Rabbit on the right turning right, Bobcat loosing the race, peels off to the left and towards the back yard fence.

PS - sorry the photos may not be rotated upright - I am still figuring this out this forum ....

I am absolutely positive it was NOT a house-cat.

Afterward, the rabbit raced by me again and exited out to the left of our yard. The bobcat followed along on the far side of the fence.

All this in the pouring rain!! LOL

What a great experience!!

(PS - don’t let your pets out alone!)

Wow! Nice shots, especially given the circumstances.

That is indeed a bobcat.

The bear last spring that set off our camera walking along the back of our house was a little uncomfortable. Even the night vision picture let you know it was pretty good size.

Good picture in the rain of the bobcat.

A bobcat got two housecats here in Lynnhaven/Ashland about five years ago. Even though I have had conflicting accounts of which houses this happened at back then.


The bobcat pulled these cats out of the lanais by ripping open the screens.

I have tried to check this story with some of the other dog/cat owners here in Lynnhaven/Ashland.

Amazing! And exciting!

One year when I lived in Rochester, NY I went deer hunting in Maine using a guide who was also working with two guys from NYC who were inexperienced hunters and comically funny. One guy tried to pick up a skunk with smelly results. The other, at night, tried to pet a bobcat, thinking it a house cat, with disastrous results as he was seriously clawed but fortunately not bitten.

That story has become an urban legend. No facts or subsequent like events.

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Cool pictures, apparently bobcats like to hang out in back yards abutting preserves. Here is a picture of two bobcats sitting on the fence outside of our birdcage which also abuts a preserve.

A few months ago, I talked to the woman who was close friends of the lady whose Manx cat was taken back then by the bobcat. It was about a 15 year old cat. Very slow. The woman in question had a number of younger Manx cats that got away from the bobcat.

I will ask her to look at this thread. I know the address of house she pointed out where the cat lived but will not post that online.

Where is Marlin Perkins when you need him? Hippo - YouTube Great Job with the pictures Tom. We only have Snakes, Frogs & Foxes in my neck of the woods. Oh yeah and Love Bugs. We have birds that walk thru our yard each day between 3 & 5 PM almost every day and are colorful and majestic and are not afraid of us at all. We found out that a neighbor has been feeding them for years. Sand Hill Cranes I believe and the Little White Birds with Very Short Orange Peckers. :1rotfl: :ohdear: It's an accurate description and I'm gonna stand by it not resemble it! :1rotfl:

The house where one of the cats got snatched off the lanai was on Saluda Street in Lynnhaven. The lanai faces Churchill Downs. I am not sure where the other cat was lost to a bobcat in Ashland. My nurse friend was aware about that and had only heard about the Saluda Street cat taking. This is a different nurse friend than the one from Doggie Doo Run Run. This one is from NYC; the Doggie Doo Run Run one is from Louisville, KY.

I had heard about this from a dozen people or more who know the Saluda Street cat owners.

Let me get this straight. A woman had a number of cats on her lanai. A bobcat ripped open the screen, entered the lanai, and carried off the slow old one. The younger faster cats escaped.


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They went back into the house. The carcass of the dead cat was found a few doors down along with tracks of a bobcat outside the Saluda home owners' lanai.

Something similar had happened in Ashland about the same time.

They did not take this to the newspaper that I know of anyway. Even if The Villages Daily Sun would often get facts wrong.

You seem to be the same poster I have been problems with for years about this story.

Last Wednesday I had a landscaper trimming my Sylvester Palm, when my neighbor Dick Maple came over to tell me he was just trimming his Sylvester that morning when he saw two orange eyes looking at him in the tree. We live in CYV's in Tamarind Grove off St. Charles. He thought, it must be a rat and then he realized the eyes were too far apart. He cut a couple of more fonds and a bobcat fell out of the tree. He came down off his ladder and the bobcat was cornered next to the villa wall and his birdcage. It started hissing at him, so he backed off and the cat climbed the wall and took off.

I have never seen a bobcat here in the Villages but they sure seem to be around. Us dog owners talk a lot about them when we hear one got something in our own neighborhoods. And that would be a very hard thing for a pet owner to keep talking about to other people.

I have seen six coyotes here in the Villages at different times of the day. One even at 3:00 PM going towards Belmont Golf Course. Belmont Golf Course - The Villages, FL, United States | SwingU

No, no problem. Just entertained about how the story has evolved over the years.

I saw a bobcat while heading to the tee on hole 9 at Heron. It was travelling along the treeline. Dissapeared before i could take a picture. But here's a photo that a fellow golfer took at Saddlebrook.

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Awesome photos of nature in action!

Here's a photo of a Bobcat from the Villages Online Newspaper taken in 2018 running down the 9th fairway of Egret at Evans Prairie Golf Course. At first many thought this was a Florida Panther, but the experts say it's a Bobcat.

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Here's a Florida Panther taken east of Gainesville captured by a motion sensor camera chasing a wild hog. Residents around Heron Executive have complained in the past about wild hogs and usually reports of a Florida Panther will happen about the same time.

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Folks, Disney World is 50 miles away. This ain't Disney World, it's nature. Look and enjoy but remember these are wild animals and to them you might as well be an enemy to fight or dinner.

I thought there was TWO pet limit?

Long tail for bobcat, looks like young cougar to me?

It's a Florida Panther taken east of Gainesville with a motion sensor camera

Even Disney can’t control the wild animals on property.

Thanks for the great pics.