Bobcats

[DiVon80]

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Explaine the hybrid? I have somthing that comes when it is rainining, also at night and my whole bird disappears. Not even a feather left behind. I live near the Honey Islad swamp, south east Louisiana. Any Idears? Have them all safely tucked away at night now!!

 

[gritsar]

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Explaine the hybrid? I have somthing that comes when it is rainining, also at night and my whole bird disappears. Not even a feather left behind. I live near the Honey Islad swamp, south east Louisiana. Any Idears? Have them all safely tucked away at night now!!

All I know is what I've learned from DH and some of the old-timers around here. A feral cat that is a cross between a domestic cat and a wild cat (some say bobcat, others say it's not possible). Looks more like a bobcat than any domestic cat I know of. There is a guy in town that caught and keeps one. Big cats, 20-25 lbs., at least. No tail.
I've seen several around here, but none recently.
This is the best pic I've got of the one that hung around for awhile:

Since he was raiding my outside cat feeders I took the feeders in and started leaving a bowl of food just outside the fence for him at night. If I missed a night, he'd let me know about it by yowling at the fence and I could hear him in the bedroom, which is a good 40 ft. from the fence. Not like any noise I've ever heard from a housecat. Real eerie.

Large cat, easily twice the size of my siamese, that weighs ten pounds.
Then one night he didn't come and I never saw him again.

 

[NateinFL]

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Explaine the hybrid? I have somthing that comes when it is rainining, also at night and my whole bird disappears. Not even a feather left behind. I live near the Honey Islad swamp, south east Louisiana. Any Idears? Have them all safely tucked away at night now!!

Probably not bobcat with no feathers left behind, but maybe it just depends on the individual. I had one kill one of my peafowl on Thanksgiving and feathers were everywhere, big flight feathers. It was heartbreaking.

 

[4dabirds]

Bobcats usually don't leave feathers at coup. Bobcats will snatch it up and take it to the nearst cover or some place they feel secure and eat it there leaving lots of feathers. Coyotes will eat the bird where ever it catches it. Coons will eat the head, neck and upper breast. And skunks have been known to eat it inside out leaving the entire skin with feathers.

 

[Lil_Miss_Farmer_Chick]

Looks like a fisher cat. Nasty boogers if it is.

 

[dacjohns]

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Are you talking about the photo gritstar posted or something else?

 

[wasatusay]

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When the bobcat took Double Trouble there was not even a down feather to be found. Clean snatch and run.

 

[gritsar]

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Are you talking about the photo gritstar posted or something else?

I know that's not a fisher cat. Doesn't look anything like one.

 

[Lollipop]

Had a bobcat take two of my best breeders before I left FL about 2 years ago. After the first one I tightened up the pen hoping it wouldn`t get the hen that was left. It came back and killed the hen, but couldn`t pull the whole carcas through the wire. I used the remains as bait by attaching the carcas to the bottom of my live trap. Caught the devil. Had pics before my stepson deleted them. Good luck with yours.......Pop

 

[4dabirds]

Chillin, thats just how I kinda summed it all up. Not all critters will do that everytime, there are to many variables that could take place. Sorry for your Double Trouble, I lost all of my geese and ducks before I captured the culprit.