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Is this a bobcat?

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JEB:
Look guys. Am I seeing things or does that critter have a longer pointed nose on it?

Russ:
Its garfield

osage outlaw:
Looks like a big feral cat to me.  I am working on a quiver that will have that same pattern  ;)

BowEd:
Many years ago like 40 or 50 the fur buyer used to give any wheres' from 2 to 5 dollars for nice colored feral cats.The tabby colored ones brought the most.I've seen some very big ones before too.
Nowadays with fur prices being down so much feral cats are every where here.We personally on the farm have around 15 to 20 of them we feed.We keep them around to keep the mice at bay.They do their job well.
Before them I had problems of mice chewing lots of things that cost me a fair amount of money to replace.
A funny story with a good ending somewhat.......Before cats living here mice had the run of the place.I had traps everywhere.Including in my vehicles.Even in the glove compartments.Disgusting!!!
One time I went to start my pick up.It started but would'nt stay idiling good.Very odd as it was a good runner.I got it going steady by feathering the gas pedal,but it still would'nt stay idling.
So I raced the engine a bit.After around 3 to 4 minutes I'd say I heard this whistling sound of various tones coming from underneath my truck.I stayed with it keeping it running,figuring there was something plugging the muffler.There was a point when it barely could stay running when all of a sudden a huge KA-BANG came from underneath the truck.At that moment the truck started idling normally but with straight pipes.
I backed up to see what blew out from my truck.Here there was a ball of congealed dog food in a ball laying there along with my muffler.Apparently the mice had horded and packed my muffler with dog food.The only way they could do that is to steal it from the dogs pans.
The pick up was fine yet.
Anyway when an old feral mother cat started hanging around here I started feeding her.She tamed easily.One heck of a hunter.Seen her with cotton tailed rabbits taken to her kittens.It is from her and her 5th and 6th generations of cats that we now still have cats and NO mice problems.
The End.
On a side note though those feral cats are very hard on our quail and pheasant populations.They catch song birds regularly at the bird feeder too.

mullet:
I see what you are talking about, JEB. I blew made the picture larger and I think it is just a patch of lighter colored grass.

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