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My Sister-in-law said that she was seeing something strange in her yard. I set my game camera on a tree at the corner of her house. I live right beside her, but my house is closer to the woods than her's. This is what I got.

Cue the bobcat thread...

Holy Sh*t ... you know how rare it is to see two bobcats together?

Holy nothing Batman, I have never seen one! I see youre in Ohio, I would never have guessed. I would imagine Montana or someplace out west but Ohio? Keep the small dogs inside.

Hmmm, mustabe wild, no collars. YIKES!

This was almost in my yard and I live town.

Beautiful cats. I use to have wildlife in my yard but now all I have are cats and dogs!

Is the lead one named "Royal"?

A few years back there was one in my subdivision in South Florida for about a month. There is only one or two lots with vegetation, so it is surprising to see anything beyond squirrel, Racoon, tortoise, and occasional armadillo. I saw him in the middle of the afternoon trying to catch a bird (fail) The one I saw was of lesser weight than those 2. I have never seen 2 together, and I thought they were solitary with well defined territory, but this picture refutes that.

Maybe they`re on a dinner date.

Badass animals. I don`t get em here at my house but, we are 20 miles or so from the Atchafalaya Basin. My uncle`s house is at the rim of that thing. They are common to spot there. They will take care of critters. Including yours.;)

Several years ago I was deer hunting in a climber about 20 feet off the ground. And for about 10 minutes I watched a pair of Bob cats catch a squirrel, it was quite a sight to watch .

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My neighbors backyard last week.


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I've seen them in Ohio back a little over 40 years ago when I still lived in Morgan County. Also was a couple of Panthers in the area along with some Black bears. Really not uncommon in the Southeastern to southern part of the state.
I've seen a couple of them here in the part of North Carolina that I live in but it's been a couple of years. Coyotes are more common here.

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All I get is these guys, there are 5 that arrive together almost every night. Also I get one possum and the neighbors cat. The Critter freeway is filmed using an outdoor battery operated camera set about 4 inches above the ground. The guy in the middle came over and tried to grab the cam but he didn't get it.

Did they jump the fence cuz the grass was greener on that side?

I have a few game cameras up on my property. Get tons of deer as well as several red and gray fox every night. Also get an assortment of Possums, Raccoons, Coyotes, feral dogs and cats. A video from last week showed a red fox and doe just hanging out at the pond. Another shows a possum running off a red fox...very surprising as I thought the possum might be a potential victim.

Back in my hunting days I only saw one bobcat over a period of about 25 years; they are elusive. About 4 years ago my wife went to an art festival in a small town just south of Gainesville. She came home with a kitten that a man was trying to give away, and he said the mother was a feral cat. This cat is like no other 'domestic' cat that I have ever seen. He has the classic ear tufts, a beard and huge paws. Henry is 4 years old now and weights 15 lbs. all muscle. My wife picks him up from time to time and he gnaws and claws as we call it. If he is really mad he will growl just like a lion or tiger. No meow and no other sounds that we have heard. I really wonder if somewhere back in his linage there might be some bobcat? Vet said it is not unheard of for a feral cat and a bobcat to get together.

I ve seen a few bobcats in Mi. Saw a bobcat in captivity and yes they will growl.

They liked the willow tree. Ate it up as far as they can reach.


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Radman,
Great Pictures, what game camera are you using. I'm in the search, thanks

Cabela's outfitter GEN 3. Good pictures, time stamp, temperature stamp, and moon phase. at the bottom of the picture.

Have posted this before, I saw a Bobcat kill a small fox (test track guard used to feed them at night -the foxes).
Bobcar rushed out of the brush, the foxes scattered, he targeted one and killed it quickly.
About the size of the Bobcats in your picture.
Never saw two of them together until now in your picture. And in Ohio too.

Tom V.

About 2 years ago we had a family of deer meet in our front yard. This was late in the morning (about 10:30 AM) and they looked right at us taking their picture through the front window, less than 10 feet away.

I ended up face to face with a bobcat one morning while bowhunting elk out in WA, back in the eighties. Me and a buddy hiked up a logging road to the top of a ridge he had previously scouted. We split up towards the top. About the same time the sun was high enough to see, I walked up on a bobcat sitting on a stump overlooking the valley below. We stared at each other for a couple seconds, about 20 yards apart, and the bobcat jumped away, never to be seen again.

I saw one about 5-10 years ago crossing the road not too far from my house, at night on the way home from the drag strip. I have seen black Bear in the same area years ago. They actually roamed the woods behind my house back then. The same section of road is now lined with houses, and a 45 MPH speed limit.

If you look at Google Maps you can see how the woods are connected to the Great Dismal Swamp. The Bears have to cross a couple roads, but they can basically work their way East into the area I live. A few years ago they logged the timber behind my house, so the bears no longer have a reason to wander as far as they used to.

Times have changed in the last ten years.

As far as the whitetail deer, they do some crazy stuff this time of year when they go into rut. The buck’s kinda loose any common sense, as they chase the doe’s. Sometimes it seems like they are thicker in the residential areas adjacent to wooded areas. I see a lot of them in the pre dawn darkness on the way to work this time of year. I also see a lot more dead ones on the side of the road this time of year as well.

Ever have a male charge you during the rut??

Not fun...thought he was going to jump on our deck and blast through the french doors like you see on TV sometimes.

My daughter saw one about two weeks ago in her back yard. Also saw one a couple of years ago. LOTS of woods behind her house. Cyotes are there too so they share the habitat.

In The early 90s, late October, I was driving the company van in the Oil City area of PA about 3 PM. I was in a wooded area on 2 lane blacktop and heard a huge thump on the passenger side of the van. I looked in the mirror and saw a buck going head over heels along the side of the road, the car behind me swerved to avoid the deer. As soon as he stops rolling he gets up and shakes it off, then runs back into the woods.

Near as I can figure by the small dent on the quarter, he charged the van, and came out on the losing end, at least by my account.......:confused2

When I lived in one of my past homes built on the edge of a 200 acre wooded tract, we used to have deer grazing in the yard, just outside of the sliding patio doors, within 15 feet of the doors. As long as you didn't move quickly, they would keep on doing what they were doing. Never saw any bucks, just doe, and yearlings.

My father told me years ago of being in the woods during buck season, and building a fire because it was freezing cold. The doe would come right up fairly close to see what was going on, but he said you never saw a buck. He told me that deer are quite curious, and as long as you don't make any threatening moves they just look everything over.

I see bobcats around here a bit. Not often, but often enough to know they're around here ll the time.

I was out waxing one of my cars back in September. The squirrels were making a racket running around in the trees that day. I kept hearing twigs crackling behind me, and thought to myself "damn the squirrels are really getting loud!" I finally look up and see this guy trying to sneak past me! He had gotten stuck below the rock ledge and was doing his best to tip toe by without me noticing him only about 25 feet away.