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Saturday night I went out on a milk run.
On my return and while unloading the car I noted the movement of a rather large object with the corner of my eye. My eye was drawn to the roof where I saw one of these;
This is known as a Bobcat (Lynx rufus). The "book" says the average bobcat runs about 25 lbs (~9kg), but large males can run 60-65 lbs (27-30 kg).
My guess is that the one I saw was a rather large male of about 45-50 lbs, which would make him about 4 feet long (1.2 meters).
BIG kitty cat
My guess is that he was trying to keep warm next to our chimney.
For about 15 seconds we just stared at each other, but once I moved he took off over the peak of the roof never to be seen again.
This morning the wife found some tracks in our front yard, and they definitely looked like bobcat tracks to me. Way too large for anything else.
There have also been sightings (including videotaped ones) of cougars in the outer Detroit suburbs, some within 10 miles of our house.
Just west of us in Belleville, MI a cougar sighting this past October was accompanied by tracks that indicated it being a 90-100 lb female.
Needless to say a lot of kids started riding the bus to school and outside recesses were suspended.
Dr. Mordrid
On my return and while unloading the car I noted the movement of a rather large object with the corner of my eye. My eye was drawn to the roof where I saw one of these;
This is known as a Bobcat (Lynx rufus). The "book" says the average bobcat runs about 25 lbs (~9kg), but large males can run 60-65 lbs (27-30 kg).
My guess is that the one I saw was a rather large male of about 45-50 lbs, which would make him about 4 feet long (1.2 meters).
BIG kitty cat
My guess is that he was trying to keep warm next to our chimney.
For about 15 seconds we just stared at each other, but once I moved he took off over the peak of the roof never to be seen again.
This morning the wife found some tracks in our front yard, and they definitely looked like bobcat tracks to me. Way too large for anything else.
There have also been sightings (including videotaped ones) of cougars in the outer Detroit suburbs, some within 10 miles of our house.
Just west of us in Belleville, MI a cougar sighting this past October was accompanied by tracks that indicated it being a 90-100 lb female.
Needless to say a lot of kids started riding the bus to school and outside recesses were suspended.
Dr. Mordrid
Sounds like a dangerous strategy to me.
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