UH... Another reason to be armed in North texas...maybe

stevie_d_64 · #16

Great pics!!! Yeah, I'm still with everyone on the 35-45 pound range on those cats...

Didn't look like they had a care in the world in those pics...

And yes, the whole Mountain Lion range is interesting as well...I had one years ago cross my path running across a fire lane up in Wood County east of Quitman...No doubt about it, it wasn't a bobcat, it was a bundle of rippling muscles and so fast you wouldn't believe!!!

hoss4570 · #17

lrb111 wrote:
hoss4570 wrote:
flintknapper wrote:

Not to argue... but I'd have to see a sixty pound bobcat to believe it.

I agree, but I did'nt write the news story, but thats what they said. The pic of the dead critter looked big next to the deputy. However, there seems to be some confusion here on this board, a bobcat and mountian lion, panther, cougar, whatever you want to call the second list are two different animals. The one pictured here is a bobcat. :D :D
Hey Hoss, was that the bobcat down at Rankin that attacked that lady?
I drive quite a bit over Ector and Midland counties daily. I'm seeing bobcat regularly, and coyote by the pack. Fox and badger, too.
Like was mentioned above, seeing lot's of things we never used to see without setting in a blind all week.

Yes, it was Rankin but I thought it attacked a kid, maby I was mistook, but that was the cat. About a month or so ago. LOTS of cats, bobcat and mountian lions in that area.

Thane · #18

There's plenty of bobcat and cougar out here in the El Paso area. They're living high on the hog right now, as the jackrabbit and cottontail populations have exploded.

I'm given to understand the cougar are going after oryx, too, not to mention deer and the odd coyote or domestic dog. There've been numerous unpublicized complaints about cougars in the past few years all around the edges of town.

I've never clapped eyes on either kind of cat out here, although I have tracked them.

lrb111 · #19

hoss4570 wrote:
lrb111 wrote:
hoss4570 wrote:
flintknapper wrote:

Not to argue... but I'd have to see a sixty pound bobcat to believe it.

I agree, but I did'nt write the news story, but thats what they said. The pic of the dead critter looked big next to the deputy. However, there seems to be some confusion here on this board, a bobcat and mountian lion, panther, cougar, whatever you want to call the second list are two different animals. The one pictured here is a bobcat. :D :D
Hey Hoss, was that the bobcat down at Rankin that attacked that lady?
I drive quite a bit over Ector and Midland counties daily. I'm seeing bobcat regularly, and coyote by the pack. Fox and badger, too.
Like was mentioned above, seeing lot's of things we never used to see without setting in a blind all week.
Yes, it was Rankin but I thought it attacked a kid, maby I was mistook, but that was the cat. About a month or so ago. LOTS of cats, bobcat and mountian lions in that area.

Don't let me get you second guessing, I could have it backwards. I think I remember them saying that cat was rabid, about a week after the fact.

The last bobcat I saw walking, was on east loop 338, about a block from Ranchito. It was about the same size as the one in these photos.

hoss4570 · #20

I've seen a few out in west Odessa, Bobcats, not cougars. I have never seen a mountian north of Crane. Go south of there and you will find plenty.

drinks · #21

I have seen bobcat tracks all over Texas, even in mud in an alley in Dallas, that is Felis rufus, I have never seen one over 50 lb, but that just means I have not seen one bigger than that.
I have seen Felis concolor, the puma, mountain lion, cougar, panther, painter catamount or what ever name someone gives it, in several places in Texas and have seen the distinctive tracks in a lot of places.
A cat track the size of the palm of your hand is distinctive, especially when it is in the dirt road, on top of your car tracks that you made the evening before and you spent the night on a cot in the open, not that a tent would really slow one down.
Several places, Wile and the kittys are in serious competition for the local snack supply, chihuahuas, toy poodles and peekapoos as well as fat house cats.

jhutto · #22

Bobcats and Mountain Lions are different animals.

davefrmmrfy · #23

I saw one about a year ago crossing Renner Rd. near the ponds @ Breckenridge park. This was mid day and it was crossing heavy traffic!

Thing was huge! And not afraid...

Venus Pax · #24

Heeeeeerrrre, kitty kitty kitty kitty!

hoss4570 · #25

jhutto wrote:Bobcats and Mountain Lions are different animals.

Thats waht I said eariler and they did'nt listen to me either.

KBCraig · #26

hoss4570 wrote:
jhutto wrote:Bobcats and Mountain Lions are different animals.
Thats waht I said eariler and they did'nt listen to me either.

Whaddaya mean, "they"?

I don't think anyone here thinks they're the same animal. They're just talking about both at the same time.

flintknapper · #27

KBCraig wrote:
hoss4570 wrote:
jhutto wrote:Bobcats and Mountain Lions are different animals.
Thats waht I said eariler and they did'nt listen to me either.
Whaddaya mean, "they"?

I don't think anyone here thinks they're the same animal. They're just talking about both at the same time.

We could throw in a Lynx (which is just a souped up bobcat according to Jerry Clower), then it would really get confusing.

#28

I miss Jerry Clower...

TX Rancher · #29

We'll see bobcat's a couple times a year. The horses don't like them and get a little skittish, but the cows couldn't care less if one's around.

I tend to leave them alone since they help to cut down on the rabbit population, which is getting out of hand in my neck of the woods.

Most of the ones I see would probably weigh less then 30 lbs and they have never shown any interest in approaching me...

hoss4570 · #30

You know that could be why were seeing more of them here, rabbits. Were over run with bunnies.