OK...here's another little "Short Tail..tale".
About 2 yrs ago I was leaving for work in the wee hours just at dawn. As I stepped out the door I noticed a cat all huddled up on our doorstep. Now I figured this was a neighbor's big grey cat which hung around occasionally. So I reached out with my foot and gave him a poke;told him to scat for home. He leaped off the step as if I had stabbed him and spun around to hiss at me. Wow..it wasn't who I thought. It was a medium-sized Bobcat. He gave me a VEEEEERY evil stare with fangs that looked about 6 inches long;growling and grumbling. After a brief stare-down he turned and trotted off.
For the next 3 weeks he kind of wandered by occasionally...never bothering anything. I took to calling him Robert D Cat.
Finally he found someplace else and I haven't seen him since...altho there are occasionally very large cat tracks about.
About 2 yrs ago I was leaving for work in the wee hours just at dawn. As I stepped out the door I noticed a cat all huddled up on our doorstep. Now I figured this was a neighbor's big grey cat which hung around occasionally. So I reached out with my foot and gave him a poke;told him to scat for home. He leaped off the step as if I had stabbed him and spun around to hiss at me. Wow..it wasn't who I thought. It was a medium-sized Bobcat. He gave me a VEEEEERY evil stare with fangs that looked about 6 inches long;growling and grumbling. After a brief stare-down he turned and trotted off.
For the next 3 weeks he kind of wandered by occasionally...never bothering anything. I took to calling him Robert D Cat.