Animal Reports: A Bobcat Sighting, Beavers, Cats Hunting Ducks

A Bobcat Sighting

A Meadows End Road woman was sitting in her kitchen Wednesday morning when she looked out the window and saw a bobcat staring back at her from behind the gas grill in her yard.

Animal Control said the bobcat then limped off into the woods. It is believed to be an adult female with a den in the area, according to Animal Control Officer Ed Risko. It poses no threat, he added.

Risko said the wild cat could have been eying the pet bird in a cage by the woman's window or her small five-pound dog — or it could have just been passing through.

Risko doubts the bobcat was interested in the house pets. He said bobcats, foxes and coyotes thrive in the area, because the animals live on small rodents such as squirrels and chipmunks, which have healthy populations here.

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