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Originally Posted by John_W (Post 1681464)

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

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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 1681455)

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.

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.

https://scontent-mia3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...25&oe=5DEF7FB3

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.

http://www.bigcypressswamp.com/images/PANTHERhog.jpg

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.

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Originally Posted by Chi-Town (Post 1681452)

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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I thought there was TWO pet limit?

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Originally Posted by John_W (Post 1681965)

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

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Originally Posted by Topspinmo (Post 1682100)

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

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

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Originally Posted by Aloha1 (Post 1682049)

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.

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

Thanks for the great pics.