MASSIVE Bobcat spotted on camera

[2006powerstroke90]

Around 5:30 today I was just leaving work when my camera notification went off.

a massive bobcat walked around my coop/run the chickens freaked out and it ran away.

im sure it will be back, and, I will make some adjustments to the perimeter around my coop this weekend.

I have zero interest in harming the bobcat. But if it came down to my chickens-which we use the eggs from almost daily-can I handle this on my own or not? I am in CT. AGAIN, I am not interested in harming it unless it try’s to attack

 

[RIR chicks]

Maybe you can call a local animal control to catch it alive and relocate it. Maybe build a fence around your coop that is over 4 feet tall, (add a gate so you can get in).

 

[centrarchid]

Most cost effective approach is making so your setup is tough enough to stop a raccoon. Then make so chickens can put a little distance between themselves and cat when it approaches. My experience with Bocats and chickens are where the birds have been free-range. My dogs ended up keeping the cat away. It is easier to keep a bobcat from coming in that a domestic cat. Bobcats want the easy meal with no risk.

 

[2006powerstroke90]

My run is a 10x10 chain link fence. So I doubt it’d be able to penetrate that. And 3ft from the ground up around that is chicken wire attached to the chain link fence-i know it’s not a lot but it’s another barrier.

my concern is with the coop-it’s a pre fab and won’t take much to claw thru it. I may add some hardwire cloth around the coop itself maybe 4ft up from the bottom.

if my dog were outside it would if ran it off but she wasn’t.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Maybe you can call a local animal control to catch it alive and relocate it. Maybe build a fence around your coop that is over 4 feet tall, (add a gate so you can get in).

Animal control (at least here) basically refuse to relocate unless it attacks a human. They claim it would be too difficult and with such large territories, odds are it would be attacked by another one and would end up just being killed or it would become dangerous to people because it's hungry so they'd have to kill it, yadda yadda yadda

 

[RIR chicks]

Animal control (at least here) basically refuse to relocate unless it attacks a human. They claim it would be too difficult and with such large territories, odds are it would be attacked by another one and would end up just being killed or it would become dangerous to people because it's hungry so they'd have to kill it, yadda yadda yadda

You’re right that does sound like . Can they relocate themselves?

 

[Weeg]

Animal control (at least here) basically refuse to relocate unless it attacks a human. They claim it would be too difficult and with such large territories, odds are it would be attacked by another one and would end up just being killed or it would become dangerous to people because it's hungry so they'd have to kill it, yadda yadda yadda

Same here, animal control doesn't do much with wild animals.

 

[Weeg]

Most cost effective approach is making so your setup is tough enough to stop a raccoon. Then make so chickens can put a little distance between themselves and cat when it approaches. My experience with Bocats and chickens are where the birds have been free-range. My dogs ended up keeping the cat away. It is easier to keep a bobcat from coming in that a domestic cat. Bobcats want the easy meal with no risk.

Same, if they can't eat, then they leave. Otherwise, you have to dispose of it yourself, which I could never do.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

You’re right that does sound like . Can they relocate themselves?

No, why would they? They have a territory they picked out, why would they willingly leave?

 

[igorsMistress]

I love that you don’t want to harm the cat. Is there a way you can keep the cat out of the run and is the coop in the run itself or attached?