Bobcat City, Studying Urban Cats
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2015
- Our pets are not the only cats prowling around urban areas at night. A research project is shedding new light on how bobcats live among us in the suburbs and the edges of our cities.
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The bobcats’ collars dropped off after one year, and were below the accepted ratio of weight determined not to adversely impact the behavior or mobility of the study animals. This project was started because some urban Texas communities were afraid of the bobcats and were beginning to consider trapping and killing them. We used this research to demonstrate to those communities that the bobcats were not causing conflict and can live peacefully among people.
Texas Parks and Wildlife - Appreciate the work tpwd personnel do. Thank you for your dedication
I was in tears watching this and not because of the work you do, I just get emotional easily lol and I have a pet bobcat and she's my baby and I love her to death! :-) Great video btw!
I lived in far North Dallas (Bush / Preston) about 10 years ago. I saw bobcats several times during my walks through my neighborhood.
how can people be scared of bobcats???
The'll eat pet yorkies won't they?
Wow, that woman has an absolute DREAM JOB!
Can't see that as a career or tax dollars well spent. Besides why ruin the comfort of a bobcat by burdening it with such a cumbersome object around its neck. Not impressed by any of it.
@@TheWolfgangfritz dont care
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When our family lived in Louisiana our house was on the edge of a woods. Bobcats would regularly come tear up the garbage pile if we didn't immediately burn it. We began feeding them at a separate place and after about two years we were able to sit a few feet from them as they ate. One would even come up and let us pet him. We never had any problem with them attacking or stuff like that. They were much more like big house cats than vicious animals. Like our neighbor's dogs!
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I am a land surveyor in Wichita Falls. I was working near Kamay in a creek bottom when I saw a huge bobcat. Its tail was 8 to 10 inches long and I think its body might have been 5 feet long. I was only 30 feet from it and it was not worried about me at all. When the land owner came home she asked me if I had seen her pet potbellied pig. I said no but I think I know what might have happened to it.
I just saw a huge bobcat yesterday. That why I'm here looking at this awesome video. I hope you guys are still out there studying and keeping these cool cats safe.
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Same!
Those Bobcats are so cool.
Glad someone is looking out for them.
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What is more cute than a cat? A bigger, furrier cat!
Our neighborhood is flooded with bobcats, and they are totally urbanized. They prefer the streets and driveways to the ground. They get into basements when garage doors are left open. They knock over garbage cans; they dig up compost piles; and for some reason, they seem to take a liking to our winter squash growing in our garden. Many of them have zero fear of humans, and one of my neighbors had one that slept under the bay window of his living room, scratching at the window as if to call him to come put food and water out. I have also heard from another neighbor who said she believed a bobcat and raccoon appeared to be roaming together in her backyard.
You guys got some wild bobcats
Where is this?
I love Cats!
we all do 😽
Very interesting video. The transmitter collars are way too big, though. They must get in the cat's way. I hope the technology can soon be miniaturized. The clunky collars may well alter the cat's behaviour, and might also interfere with hunting.
Theo probably do not get in the way. Same as a “choker” necklace, even a stiff and moderately wide one, is not going to get into the way of the wearer, if it is not too tight or too loose.
A narrow collar, on the other hand, can strangle a cat, becoming almost a garrotte, digging into skin and flesh and bones, causing severe injuries or death if it gets tangled by something and causes a sharp jerk or a strong pull. A wide collar, like this, will not strangulate the cat easily nor will it cut into skin and flesh.
@@advorak8529 It's not the width of the collar that is the problem, it's the big box thing that is attached to the collar that looks so bad.
I was gonna post this same comment. lol
The collar looks awful, and I'm sure it would be uncomfortable. It's now 8 yrs since this video was posted and I truly hope tech has come along way enough that they don't have to use these bulky collars. Made me feel bad for the cats.
Love your work!
Thank you
Hope more urban folks will learn to accept these awesome and gorgeous animals. They are great for the environment. They are Pest control officers!!
What a wonderful & highly educational program! Thank you so much for all the work, research & tracking you are doing with these animals.
I agree the collars are too large. It seems tat with all our technology, a smaller collar could be made. The show was very interesting and helpful.
See above from Rosanne Coffman. Like glasslinger said, it's a matter of budget. She probably doesn't have enough to buy the latest and greatest.
@@charlessmith6412 Then maybe wait til you can get the right stuff for the study. I felt bad for the cats. Imagine being knocked out, then waking up with this big ole bulky collar on your neck.
I don't condemn the researchers though, I realize they are trying to do some good for the world. But I hope they get better collars before they do something like this again. Animals have feelings, they aren't just inanimate objects.
I think you'd catch a lot more cats if you used cardboard boxes and WalMart bags.
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You know cats.
I miss the hybrids, short hair domestics extra large winter cheek tufs and tempers to shame a Siamese, that I grew up with. More recently I had a long haired cat the neighbors thought was part Bob (came with the house). All cats go for cardboard boxes, most like rattling bags.
Crusader1815 - A sure-proof method is to attract them with light. Go out very late at night and lay a burlap bag open on the ground and take a flashlight and shine it through the bag from behind. When you hear the thud as the animal hits hits the back of the bag promptly seal it up. In Wisconsin we call it snipe hunting.
That just cruel
@Azhaar Laghari ok. I thought it meant to trap the cats and put them into Wal-Mart bags to throw them into the river like in olden times. I do remember seeing a toy in the pet dept at Wal-Mart when I was little saying "because cats love plastic bags" we laughed so hard because it sounded weird.
Those bobcats are truly beautiful beyond belief!
Thank you Julie! Im and 80 y.o. male and I too like cats. (I saw 3 cougars on 3 diff occasions on the PCT). Don't see Bobcat but I know they are present. Im glad you are helping them.
The way they captured and sedated and studied him, it's got to be what an alien encounter must feel like.
The other Bobcats never believe the poor abducted Bobcat when he comes back and tells his story. They all start calling him crazy and make fun of him. But he knows....he knows he was probed.
Would the Aliens be putting Pizza in cages to lure us
It’s how my then girlfriend now wifey snagged me. And she still rubs my tummy too!
Good job Julie!
You would think with technology we have these days they could create a small gps collar. Those things are way to big.
You may be right about the size of the actual electronics, but no matter how small you can make a device, the energy pack needed to power it for an entire year could prove to be the size-limiting factor, along with furnishing a housing that's robust enough to withstand the bobcat's lifestyle year-round, plus features such as waterproofing for times when the cat hunts waterfowl or fish from the water...
@@daphneraven9439 Very good points.
hopefully the dang thing will fall off by itself after a year! What we put those cats through for research!
See above from Rosanne Coffman. Like glasslinger said, it's a matter of budget. She probably doesn't have enough to buy the latest and greatest.
Good work Texas Parks and Wildlife
I adore bobcats
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I never seen a Bobcat before and I hope to see a Bob Cat soon
I feel very fortunate to live in North America where natural ART like Bobcats exist alongside me. Exotic animals are nonetheless important, but I don't have to go to Africa to see animals like these. I'm not a wacko enviornmentalist, but I'm all about coexistence, I practice what I preach and I've made donations to panthera.org which is an organization dedicated to helping to preserve all big feline species, and helping humans coexist with them from critically endangered tigers to underlooked species like Mountain Lions and of course, Bobcats. I highly recommend panthera.org as one of the best organizations for big cats. You can select the specific animal you want to donate to as well as an option to donate to an unspecific category that can be used by the organization for which cat they feel like it needs to go to. A big thanks to all national and international park rangers for doing what they can for animals and human coexistence.
I've been fascinated by Bobcats for quite sometime, so this is a cool video. Julie is very pretty too!
MusicGAME913 ...A man my dad knew had a female bobcat that lived in a small cage and I talked him into giving her to me. I let her go after talking to her in the cage for several days and eventually made friends with her. She wasn't good at hunting at first and returned after a month starving and I started feeding her. Only me and my mom could touch her.
Years later I slowly tamed another wild female bobcat by feeding her on the porch each day. I'd move her food bowl closer to the door everyday until she was eventually coming inside the house to eat. It took a long time but finally she was getting up in my lap on the couch. She had kittens in my closet. I made her a cat door so she could come and go. Some of them mated with a big black domesticated cat and we had black half bobcats all over the neighborhood. Lol! It's a new breed there now....bob tailed cats everywhere.
That's what I would want to do too!
I would love your job lol. I am fasinated with bobcats, they are beautiful. I'm from East Tennessee and have never seen one around here but have plenty of deer and black bears. Please keep these videos coming I love learning about them. Thank you
Good Lord the collars are so damn big I'm sure there just so happy to have those on lol
They use vacuum tube technology from the 30's that's why they are so big.
@Jimo ATX I was joking.
This is a fascinating career this woman has!There is a bob cat in my neighborhood. I heard him growl last week when my Persian was in heat. My Persian will be getting spayed in a couple of weeks so we probably will never see this bobcat My other cat shows signs there are wild animals in our neighborhood, but it could be an owl or coyote. Who knows.
A cat would never be able to detect an owls presents.
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My father saw one on the banks of grapevine lake last fall when we were kayaking. Awesome video keep up the great research!
This woman could be a model.
She's got too much country to be a model.
Maybe if she cleans her nails.
Thats why they chose her for the video
@@johncale1849 And him, too.
@@jzwillows to much country? Some of the finest women on earth are country white girls
Thank you for all your doing for the Bob cats. I have one here in central NY I’ve seen em. They are beautiful cats. Again thank you.
Could they find a much bigger & clunkier collar for the Bobcats ?
See above from Rosanne Coffman. Like glasslinger said, it's a matter of budget. She probably doesn't have enough to buy the latest and greatest.
I totally loved this video. I love cats!!!! These Bobcat's are so beautiful. Thanks for posting this. :-)
wow... beautiful example...and great video.. thanks much for posting.
It's a miracle that they even exist in a city environment. I'm living here in vacationland, Orlando FL and nothing ever makes it to the other side of the road. I love all cats but we could use some of them here to bring down the number of abandoned domestic cats. I'm not from here originally but when I got here one of the first things I noticed in my new environment was that I've never seen so many stray cats in my life anywhere that I've lived.
That was a Great Video AND Project you all did. Thanks for your work and effort. 🙏👍😎✅
Great job!!
Wow, Julie is beautiful:)
Oh bobcats cute too!
I wish we could graduate more Julies from college than idiots like AOC! It's heartening to see young people doing constructive work.
I agree Yiani Zhang. Yep, a couple o' cuties!
Sorry man. I dont think shes on your team if you get me
Howard Faust true true...
Jimo ATX sorry if my comment offended you mate:(
I have a cat that weighs, at most, 10 lbs. She is now indoor. But you wouldn't believe what she has dragged home. It weighed 35 pounds. This is a house cat.
I love possums, for the record. No my darling didn't bring a possum. My little darling brought home a raccoon.
Did you have a semi heart attack? Our domestic Cats surprise all the time!! Lizards and Rat's and yet they hate vacuum cleaners! How wonderful to have Bobcats in your country.
Cat's and possums don't fight in general. Most cats won't take a chance, possums will win and cats know it.
It must have been dead already . this isnt possible sorry. A cougar has a hard time killing an adult racoon.
@@jaxcaulfield7071 dude possum don’t fight like that. Not even the smallest adult cat will be intimidated much less harmed by possum. They are docile wonderful smelly little creatures
This cats are all over Pearsall Devine and Dilley TX area. Love when I run into them
Luis from Texas are there mountain lions cougars in Devine and in those areas ?
Love these bobcats
Awesome video and fresh look at trapping of bobcats! Love cats!
Really cool!
Bobcats are so cool!
Amazing research and researchers. You can tell handling and care of animals is top priority. Excellent video. Very impressed. This is a dream for me.
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I live in a trailer buy some woods and I think I have a bobcat out there is out here yelling like a cat
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'I didn't even do the thermometer okay' - Ah classic!
Great wrk guys thank you
Nice job to all. Great way Julie, to make a living. Cheers to you young lady.
I'm not the most eager to pay taxes, fact is there is a lot of crap I dont want to pay for. But I am glad to donate to look after the critters that are doing their best to get by in spite of all the hardships we put on them. Somebody needs to be keeping an eye out with what is going on with them and intervene to keep them out of trouble, to let them play the role nature has fine tuned them to perform. Thanks to all who work hard to increase understanding and to help animals coexist with humans in a way that is the healthiest possible for all.
Bobcat name after their short tail, good to know. Live wild. Stay safe~!!
Please save this wonderful cats!! Greet from germany!
Great work!
Why such a big collar with a box on it??
Old tech. The new ones are a fourth that size. Budget is budget unfortunately.
@@glasslinger truth
Can you recommend one, I can't find one that actually works
I raised one many many years ago. He was a wonderful cat and I still miss him. I also raised a half wolf and half Alaskan Malamute. Back in my younger days. lol Both were wonderful animals and I miss them both , to this very day.
A woman wearing cargo pants!!! I found the unicorn!!! OK all seriousness great work! This is good wildlife work here.
Dream job!😸🙌🏾
Near the golf course! 🤩 yes I’ve seen one up in Northern Maine, Presque Isle. I was delirious all week!
#BANTRAPPING! Bobcats are so so beautiful! I love them. We need to protect them.
They have to document them to make sure they don't get extinct... It's not hunting.
That is such a beautiful cat.
This is a great video. Everyone should watch
As a graduate of Texas State University I have to approve of this video!
I saw one in Richardson Texas at night about 6 months ago. It was hiding in some bushes near a pond that attracts alot of geese.
Great lure, a music CD, and furry hat.
My spirit animal! :D
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Love the video
I feel that these studies are really very important because of the dedicated parks and wildlife and the dedication of people who have respect and care about these beautiful animals i mean some people have to learn to remember that they were there living before humans decided to over develop the land that was rightly the animals before us,and the bobcat went almost extinct years ago,and seriously like many other species for instance the Tasmanian tiger people are looking into trying to bring them back but reality is that we simply don't know how to just yet but instead of spending billions of dollars on research into bringing animals back lets support the animals that we have and spend a lot less by helping wildlife research again thank you all animal lovers for trying to protect what we have so our kids and grandchildren can see them in the wild or even a zoo but not only in a museum.
they had to take a bobcat last year off the gateway clipper that was docked at the side of the river close to where I live..I swear last week I saw a bobcat sitting on a tree stump by the deep woods (well deep for us in urban pgh pa)
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We have here in Dothan A.L very healthy hybrid bobcat female and she doesn’t lift the patio house, very good video thank you for sharing!
She is gorgeous, wow
Once ran right in front of my car this morning by Wellington elementary in Flower Mound.
im from malaysia...love to see what u all did....in my village,have not seen asiatic golden cat today...maybe extinct now very sad
That wa a good show tk
We have one in Carrollton who ate a baby rabbit one night or day and then a week later, in broad day light, caught a large squirrel and ate it in the front lawn . The bobcat had the option of taking it to more secluded spot to eat it, but, instead, took it 10 feet onto the front lawn to eat it for 20 minutes. We live in a cul de sac - fewer cars going by, so that may be why he/she preferred this area. His fur was far more sleek and shiny and reddish-brown and his stripes more marbled than many bobats. He was gorgeous! I heard a gunshot a week later and never saw the bobcat again. I hope he's okay. This area is over run with rabbits. I've never seen so many rabbits in suburbia. He looked like the one at 15:00...
good video.
This is really awesome stuff, thank you! With the loss of habitat happening daily, the critters are the big losers. Great stuff on the bobcat studies! Take care.
oh, btw, not sure if you've ever come across bobcat kits but I have. I can't put a link here but if you google Kapper Outdoors baby bobcats you can check it out. Amazingly cute little things!!! Thanks.
Wow I loved this: What awesome work they're doing -to preserve the native wildlife there, (God bless them now having read their statement about the publics fears for safety -disaster averted! Thank the Lord.) doing such a great job...
I was thinking "what a great job to" do but I wouldnt say I'd exactly love to do it now; at the beginning I did think I would, it's hard work! Constantly checking those traps. Well hard but enjoyable, (& satisfying/rewarding when they achieve their objectives...) apart from all those darn possums in the traps!!
Lol that first one was super funny, (funny looking creatures -very different from ones here in Australia) then they became somewhat tedious.
But that surprise successful capture later was really good and to see what they do, definitely rewarding work as far as all the research & being very hands on, maybe not so much handling road kill, blech... but pretty cool job to have, and amazing work they get to do, with the native wildlife, wild cats, pretty awesome stuff
Oh such a cutie
This is neat. This is a great area to conduct this study. I have seen bobcats in the woods a few times in this area. I live at the edge of River Legacy Park and had a bobcat on my back porch one morning (about 6:30am) which was interesting because he had to scale a huge retaining wall. It was the biggest one I have ever seen so most likely it was a male. I'm pretty sure it just came to check out the scent coming from the litter box I put outside for the night. I got my undergrad in Biology and Environmental Studies so I know how important wildlife corridors are in urban environments. Great work.
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Several years ago I was fishing the hot water outlet on Lake Bastrop when I observed something swimming across the channel. As I got closer I was not able to identify the animal until it got to shore and jumped out of the water, it was a bobcat. It shook off the water and walked off into the woods.
I've only see a bobcat once.....when I was mountain biking at Cedar Hill State Park.
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I lived in far North Dallas (Bush / Preston) about 10 years ago. I saw bobcats several times during my walks through my neighborhood.
@@cazgerald9471 Grew up in north Dallas 50's, we had bobcats and mixed breed cats. Hadn't seen a hybrid in ages and few bobs, but this house in southeast Dallas came with a very large longhaired cat my neighbors insisted was part bob (looked the part in winter but always sweet tempered, not what I remember back when). Experts say we have as many as ever, just don't see them.
Those collars aren't too big - until airlines issue their next size restrictions for carry-ons. Urban bobcats will then have to ride with the checked baggage if they choose to fly.
Scratches, bites and all I'd definitely have one on my lap If I could get away with it.
Seen one in Lewisville and a few in Dfw airport area.
I FINALLY have a good use for that Chumbawumba CD..
i live on a nearly 10000 acre cow ranch in Texas and there are def bobcats here that aren't camera shy.
In the rare instance when bobcats make an attic or shed their home --- they can be safely and harmlessly EVICTED with EVICTOR STROBE LIGHTS. The 175,000 Evictor Strobe Lights are powerful enough to force bobcats ( and feral cats ) to live elsewhere.
As im writing this, this video is 9 years old. Im sure they have smaller tracking devices now but this is what she had to work with then. And it seems as if the people whining about the collars didn't bother to read her comment pinned at the top or watch the video to the end because it's stated that these collars drop off on their own after a year. Get over the size of the collars already. Thanks for the interesting video!
i have one in south lake tahoe in my backyard..A lot of snow this year so snow pack is over the fence in spots...She is coming in to eat the squirrels she just got...march 2019
I've seen them in Desoto Lancaster and RedOak
Wow, when i saw those radio collars i thought they were for BEARS they are so huge..
See above from Rosanne Coffman. Like glasslinger said, it's a matter of budget. She probably doesn't have enough to buy the latest and greatest.
I have fed a lot of bobcats on my place in Hempstead tx. Well probably one . He didn’t get my last rooster as i chased him down going across my neighbors yard and he dropped him. Big rooster. It was dead but he didn’t get to eat em. He got most of my chickens and neighbors chicks. People keep building around us so there is no place for them to hunt.
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Thanks to this video my 4 year old stole our dogs crate and all my cheese to trap a bob cat.
I have a 20 acre woodland tract inside Jackson, MS, our state capital. My land borders urban subdivisions on two sides. I can readily testify bobcats live and thrive on my land as do many other animals you wouldn't think would want to live right beside a densely populated urban development. But they do. I can't say it is always beneficial to have bobcats at this location because a few common farm animals may occasionally become prey to the bobcats, along with some of the many stray pet house cats that cannot resist roaming on my land. The bobcats also suffer in an urban location due to collisions with traffic or even just eating a mouse or rat that has eaten poison put out by humans to kill the rodents. In a more protected rural environment, these conflicts might be greatly reduced.
You are doing a great work and I hope you will publish and share the results of your study for those of us who are interested in learning what we can about this fascinating animal. Personally, I am particularly interested in knowing what your research has revealed about the movement patterns of the bobcats.
I'm no sure why you see me as a monster but that is certainly your prerogative. I do free lance outdoor writing and simply enjoy reading research studies and learning more about animals. I watched the video to learn about the actions of this awesome cat.
And, for the record, I don't set out poison on my land, I have a beautiful domestic cat I absolutely love and won't risk it eating rat poison. Besides she and the other predators keep the mice and rats under control.
Nature is designed to work in a balance between predatory animals and their prey. But there are times when things get out of balance and humans need to step in to help restore a natural balance. For non-predatory animals like baby deer, turkeys, quail, and song birds to survive, the number of predatory animals like bobcats must be kept in balance. If the predator population gets too large, they can and will wipe out other animals, like rabbits and the ones I have already named.
Professional wildlife biologist understand the need for predator control and they support it. Yes, at times that can include bobcats. So you may see any efforts that remove predators as "bothering" them and I suppose in a way that is true. However, in order for other animals to have a chance to live out their natural life cycle, at times predators must be "bothered" a bit.
These biologists are doing an excellent job studying the animals to learn more about them. No one is doing this in order to "bother" the animals.
Finally, yes bobcats can and do kill animals bigger than themselves. Bobcats are excellent hunters and retty much fearless. They will take on anything they think they can successfully kill. Some of their victims are farm animals, despite what you say. Bobcats will easily kill a farmer's chickens, ducks, turkeys, lambs, or even a baby calf if it gets the chance. They also kill small animals like kittens and puppies. You see predators as cute innocent animals but they have to kill other animals to eat. They don't peacefully eat grass like a deer does or peck around for bugs like a turkey does. Bobcats and all predators like them will kill other animals and heartlessly begin eating them even if they are still alive. While I enjoy the bobcat as much as anyone, I fully understand its nature and the rather brutal role it plays in killing off many animals humans would prefer to see remain alive.
I saw one in north Arlington this morning, around 12pm, walking across a 6 lane road and it was bigger than anything in this documentary. About twice the size of the ones you show here.
Arlington New York, Virginia, or Texas? If New York or Virginia, could it have been a Canadian lynx?
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I've seen two bobcats in Heath, Tx. We do have a lot of wooded land and open fields though. So I guess you couldn't call it "urban". Interesting video!
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Julie! This lady has a very classic face! Something Michelangelo would use for statues! Beautiful!
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
Or ask the grinning bobcat why he grinned
I had a pixie Bob its a cross between a Bob cat and a house cat she was amazing and lived with me and my other pets for almost 21 years she loved all animals and tried to mother them all including my ring neck parakeet who I got just hatched from egg she cleaned it kept it warm and even tried to nurse it lol they are together from the same bowl the bird loved cat food
What a beautiful animal and a great video. Tracking collars seem overly bulky for me and uncomfortable for the animal.
I have to say that I'm surprised that the collars are so big. I realise that the video came out in 2015 but surely they've gotten smaller now.
We're in 2020 and our phones have had GPS compatability for many, many years. Surely the tech is smaller now?
@@akumaplantstudios8869 Its cause you need a battery pack to last a full year without recharging, that takes up lots of space
It’s good to see where healthy urban wildlife are not considered pests but rather assets that should be cherished. Here in Wisconsin our foxes, coyotes and on rare occasions cougars and bobcats are considered dangerous pest in need of eradication.
We walk along the trail at the Viridian and saw the sign that alerts of Bobcats-what do you do if you encounter them?