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« Reply #30 on: December 22, 2009, 10:19:54 PM » |
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Well, I trusted the elements too much last early wee hours of the morn. Kitter went out to nature's calling (refuses to use a litter box), and about 15 min. later I heard a distress scream from my kitter. I almost tore the door off the hinges running outdoors screaming. A bobcat was after him. My kitter barely escaped and I went after this beast between the two of them with less "armament" than what I hope to if another encounter...
you are a good Mama, Rabt. with good ears. and your Kat is very, very lucky. |
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« Reply #31 on: December 22, 2009, 11:08:45 PM » |
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Hell, natvrabit is very very lucky!!!
You may want to invest in a harness to put on Kitter and walk her for poopy times. And keep some big sticks near your door to grab and swat the bad cat with. Good lordy, what a scary story!
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« Reply #32 on: December 23, 2009, 05:02:44 AM » |
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Hell, natvrabit is very very lucky!!!
You may want to invest in a harness to put on Kitter and walk her for poopy times. And keep some big sticks near your door to grab and swat the bad cat with. Good lordy, what a scary story!
I try to be a good mama Belle. I was about hysterical. Becky, I keep a metal golf club on the porch just for such occasions. I had time to grab it, but not much else! I am going to try a harness and see if he will let me put it on him. I may look like I've wrestled with the bobcat afterwards! Worth a try. I am way to old to be running through the woods in the dark! Something more than a golf club will be carried as well! |
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« Reply #33 on: December 23, 2009, 08:14:00 AM » |
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This makes me wonder if a particular bobcat has learned that it's easier to prey on pets than hunt for food like bunnies. I know my yard is full of fat doves, fatter bunnies, and enough bloated squirrels to feed a family of bobcats for a winter. So I'm wondering if this is like the bears that prefer dumpsters over woodlands and get too comfortable around human habitation. A wild animal that loses its fear of humans is a dangerous creature indeed.
Thank goodness you saved your kitter!
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« Reply #34 on: December 23, 2009, 08:55:27 AM » |
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This makes me wonder if a particular bobcat has learned that it's easier to prey on pets than hunt for food like bunnies. I know my yard is full of fat doves, fatter bunnies, and enough bloated squirrels to feed a family of bobcats for a winter. So I'm wondering if this is like the bears that prefer dumpsters over woodlands and get too comfortable around human habitation. A wild animal that loses its fear of humans is a dangerous creature indeed.
Thank goodness you saved your kitter!
I've been wondering the same thing (pets making for easier prey). Not sure it was wisest thing for me to go running out there, but I did! Creepy sound when that beast growled at me. I'm surprised the entire neighborhood didn't wake up from my screaming! The only advantage my cat had, was knowing his yard better than the beast did (and a protective Mom). This was like 15 feet from my front door at the start! |
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« Reply #35 on: December 23, 2009, 09:01:13 AM » |
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The night I rescued my cat from a bobcat, the bobcat had my kitty cornered right beneath my bedroom window. The yowling woke me, I ran out barefoot in my nightgown hollering at the top of my lungs, the bobcat (luckily for me) slunk off cussing, and my kitty most enthusiastically went into the house for the rest of the night. This was about two in the morning.
In my case, a stray chicken had been hanging around on my property, often sleeping with my cat next to the house under my window (I know, he was an odd cat), so I figured the bobcat had followed the chicken scent (never saw the chicken after that night) and figured my kitty was dessert.
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« Reply #36 on: December 23, 2009, 10:05:10 AM » |
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Wow, nativ, that's quite an adventure for you and kitter! I'm so glad it turned out the way it did.
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« Reply #37 on: December 23, 2009, 10:14:36 AM » |
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I'm hoping my maniacal screaming and swinging the golf club makes the beast think twice about returning! I decided to sit up about 15 min. that night and wait for my cat to come back in. My cat shot under one side of a large azalea grove and out the other side and the bobcat couldn't make his way through it. That entire shrub was shaking from it trying to get through. It growled at me from behind the shrub. I was whacking the azalea with the golf club and then I heard it walking away through the woods.
I had put a robe and some slippers on at least, those pine cones would have slowed me down if I had been barefoot!
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« Reply #38 on: December 23, 2009, 10:47:51 AM » |
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Wow, nativ, that's quite an adventure for you and kitter! I'm so glad it turned out the way it did.
Thanks Seavey. I so hoped you'd find Tater. I sure kept my eyes open for him. Guess I'll look like some kook out in my robe and slippers walking a cat while toting protection for us both! That will be for sure when the law decides to patrol by! |
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« Reply #39 on: December 23, 2009, 11:42:25 AM » |
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I really hope you find your schnoodle! I know there's a bobcat right around our neighborhood (I live on Hackberry just off Pleasant).
Natv, I'm so glad to hear you were able to save your kitty. Mine wasn't so lucky a few months ago. I know it was a bobcat that got her because we were out back and the bobcat was at the edge of our woods and growled/yowled at me and my cat shot out the door to protect us before I could stop her. The noise those things make is terrifying!
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« Reply #40 on: December 23, 2009, 01:13:25 PM » |
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We have our next generation of schnoodle on reserve from a breeder right here in Chatham County. He won't be ready to leave his mom until the end of January. But he's darned cute!
I expect that Tater has met his cruel fate (and nature is cruel as well as merciful). But I won't give up hope until we find his remains which we don't have the heart to look for. He's tagged and chipped, so if anyone finds him, they can find us.
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« Reply #41 on: December 23, 2009, 01:39:06 PM » |
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We have our next generation of schnoodle on reserve from a breeder right here in Chatham County. He won't be ready to leave his mom until the end of January. But he's darned cute!
I expect that Tater has met his cruel fate (and nature is cruel as well as merciful). But I won't give up hope until we find his remains which we don't have the heart to look for. He's tagged and chipped, so if anyone finds him, they can find us.
It's so hard when you lose a pet. That's great that you have found another pup Seavey. It won't replace Tater, but it helps ease the pain when you have another to come along to love. My current kitter showed up (abandoned, hungry) around the time my 18 yr. old cat passed away. I didn't think I was ready for another one at the time, but he has been an absolute joy! You are right Tabata, the sound of the bobcat is frightening. I just hope I was as frightening to it and it will just move on along somewhere else besides my house! My poor shrub took a beating with that golf club, but hey, it made the thing turn around and move on along! Any possible sleep for the night was over with by 4:30 AM! Adrenalin rush and my poor baby was cowering and trembling, I held him in my lap until he calmed down about dawn and I put him in his basket and he went to sleep. |
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« Reply #42 on: December 23, 2009, 08:49:17 PM » |
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Is it time for all good kitties to learn to use litterboxes in the wee hours?
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« Reply #43 on: December 24, 2009, 07:32:23 PM » |
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Is it time for all good kitties to learn to use litterboxes in the wee hours?
I am open for tips on how to get a cat that used the outdoors a good while in his abandoned life, to adapt to the use of a litter box in his adopted life. I have tried every avenue of litter, shredded paper, pine needles (where he prefers in the outdoors)! He just doesn't "get it". He has a box available for wishful thinking... |
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« Reply #44 on: December 25, 2009, 10:04:00 AM » |
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Yeppers, formally feral cats do not always "get it." Our Kitteh Lovey does but still prefers the great outdoors outhouse.
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