Living With A Bobcat

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Interesting thread... I'm pretty sure CA laws wouldn't allow it, dunno about AZ. Feed bill must be considerable with that cat, yeah? Rock climbing friends & I would often see bobcats up on Stonewall Peak in the Cuyamacas... they'd cross the trail ahead of us and vanish into the brush. Cool cats, you're lucky to have picked up that one as a kitten... be a different story trying to train a wild adult, LOL. BTW, I dig the scratching post, I take it you made it yourself? Just the sort of post needed for that large kitteh!!! The Peterbilt or KW of housecats, 10-4? :cool2:
 

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basscat basscat I am so glad you posted some more pictures of your giant friend in his now natural habitat. Yes, I too had been wondering if he got along with your other cats or if he had considered them to be his next meal given the chance. What else does he have in his room to play with besides a giant tree and scratching post and "purple things"? Does he sleep as much as a house cat and is he up at night making a ruckus or having the zoomies? How is he different from a house cat besides size and strength? Does he purr?
 
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basscat basscat I am so glad you posted some more pictures of your giant friend in his now natural habitat. Yes, I too had been wondering if he got along with your other cats or if he had considered them to be his next meal given the chance. What else does he have in his room to play with besides a giant tree and scratching post and "purple things"? Does he sleep as much as a house cat and is he up at night making a ruckus or having the zoomies? How is he different from a house cat besides size and strength? Does he purr?
His outside enclosure has several poles holding up the roof. (old telephone line poles and rough cedar tree poles). Each one has something different. Couple of them still have partial limbs on them. Some have boards going in between them up high (catwalks). Couple of them have a cedar tree pole as a walkway in between them. One has sisal wrapped part way up. Perches all over the place at different levels and different areas. He can jump perch to perch up/down/sideways. Basically make his way "almost" all the way around it and never touch the ground. (which he's GOOD AT....at 100mph sometimes).
Yeah, he sleeps as much as a house cat, but, it's hard to catch him sleeping. He sort of sleeps with one eye open I guess you could say...always aware.
He's much busier than a normal house cat. His brain must be always on the go and so is he. He's very active if anybody or anything is near him.
He seldom "climbs"....it's more of dead spring getting up things. He just runs up stuff.
Getting down is no regard to personal safety. He will jump down from any height he's ever been so far. If he's after something....a bug, a toy....he'll land on his side if that's what it takes to get whatever it is he's after.
 
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@nurseangel , So as not to encroach on the belly contest thread.
I told you Gibsy was a bobcat, but he didn't know that. :lol:
A joke, yeah...but a little bit true.
Ya see, when a bobcat is eating, it's best to just steer clear. They take food very seriously and are extremely protective of it. ALL bobcats are this way. They can't help it.
If Gibs is hungry, I set his food down, and LEAVE.
If he's not hungry, I can hold his food bowl close to him and he'll start snarly whining. BUT, he'll hold his head down as if he's ashamed of what he's doing and he'll back away from his food just a little bit, so that he'll stop snarling. Thus enabling me pet him.
He's like a metal detector and food is metal. The closer you get, the louder he gets. But if he's not hungry, he'll back himself away until he stops making noise. :flail::flail:
 

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If he's not hungry, I can hold his food bowl close to him and he'll start snarly whining. BUT, he'll hold his head down as if he's ashamed of what he's doing and he'll back away from his food just a little bit, so that he'll stop snarling. Thus enabling me pet him
You must be able to read Gibs body language and thoughts pretty well to be able to live with such a great animal.
Does he signal his intentions and thoughts in an obvious way or do you have to watch him pretty close?
I had one big cat actually look away from you and gaze at something else but if you saw the whiskers drop or the back claw tense..get the hell out of there. He would set you up.
Gibs is great and still jealous..lol
 
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You must be able to read Gibs body language and thoughts pretty well to be able to live with such a great animal.
Does he signal his intentions and thoughts in an obvious way or do you have to watch him pretty close?
I had one big cat actually look away from you and gaze at something else but if you saw the whiskers drop or the back claw tense..get the hell out of there. He would set you up.
Gibs is great and still jealous..lol
Most everything he does is obvious. Might not have been initially, but, we are fast learners and he's taught us well. :lol:
 
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