Bob cat

[mahlers]

We see them around here all the time and, yes, they do make a horrible sound at night when they're either about to get into a fight or they want to keep something away. We also have Cougars, and they make the same blood-curdling sound. In fact, it sounds like a woman screaming bloody murder like you've never heard before.

We had a party up on the top of our hill one summer and one of the girls decided to head into the woods for a nature call (normal bathroom line must have been too long). She was gone for about two minutes when we all heard this terrible scream come from the woods - one of those screams that makes your heart skip a beat. Right after that, the girl comes running out of the woods with her pants still halfway down. We were asking her what happened that made her scream like that and she said that it wasn't her - but whatever it was it was right next to her and literally scared the #&$P out of her. It was funny for the rest of us, at least...

 

[Tororider]

I thought it was cougars that you hear the stories about dragging people off into the forest.

Your "pet" bobcat is a beautiful specimen.

 

[billbill1]

I had one run by me in broad daylight-last summer, something must have kicked it out, hardly ever see them in the day time. I've seen them at dusk a couple of times but normally you don't see them around here. They are a beautiful animal.

 

[jinman]

Last year, I saw two bobcats. One of them was near my house when my wife and I returned from a trip in mid-afternoon. It just looked at us and calmly trotted off into the woods.

The other one caught me by complete surprise. I was driving to work and had just driven onto airport property on the west side of DFW airport. There are lots of freight terminals on this side of the airport and the bobcat was running from the fence surrounding a terminal to the cover of a line of trees across the road I was driving on. That bobcat was at least as big as yours, Orezok, and it looked like it probably approached the freight terminal to look for rats and field mice.