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Bobcat takes down deer!

The_Fit_Ness_Monster said:
As an owner of cats my whole life and dogs I can definitely say cats are pound for pound stronger, faster and tougher than a dog. And If it came down to life and death id much rather go against my 158# Great Pyranease than my 18# Maine Coon. Though neither would be a walk in the park, on 2nd thought that may be a bad analogy lol
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Absolutely. Pound for pound cats are way stronger and faster than dogs. Think about it this way. Humans have bred dogs to range from a couple of pounds to a couple of hundred pounds. We haven't done that with cats because above a certain size in cats (20 lbs?) we become lunch for them. Their speed is off the charts too. Watch some cat vs snake strike videos. The cats win every time.

If you want to read a true story about what one cat can do, pick up a copy of Jim Corbett's The Leopard of Rudraprayag. This one leopard killed and ate at least 125 people in northern India in the 1920's.
 
NMSbowhunter said:
Absolutely. Pound for pound cats are way stronger and faster than dogs. Think about it this way. Humans have bred dogs to range from a couple of pounds to a couple of hundred pounds. We haven't done that with cats because above a certain size in cats (20 lbs?) we become lunch for them. Their speed is off the charts too. Watch some cat vs snake strike videos. The cats win every time.

If you want to read a true story about what one cat can do, pick up a copy of Jim Corbett's The Leopard of Rudraprayag. This one leopard killed and ate at least 125 people in northern India in the 1920's.
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Yes! I have and read that! Also have a few about lions that killed a bunch of people in Africa, Ghosts in the Night is a movie they made about one of these stories. Cats are creepy and I’m fully aware I have a murderer in my house around my wife and kids (Maine coon) Sometimes I always think is are we crazy for letting them inside? Lol
 
The_Fit_Ness_Monster said:
Yes! I have and read that! Also have a few about lions that killed a bunch of people in Africa, Ghosts in the Night is a movie they made about one of these stories. Cats are creepy and I’m fully aware I have a murderer in my house around my wife and kids (Maine coon) Sometimes I always think is are we crazy for letting them inside? Lol
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To quote Corbett: " No curfew order has ever been more strictly enforced, and more implicitly obeyed, than the curfew imposed by the man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag." Life went on as normal until the sun went down and then people shut themselves up in their houses in terror. This lasted for years.

The actual kill count of the Leopard of Rudraprayag was likely much higher. It was a remote and mountainous part of India and communication was difficult. Record keeping was hit or miss and the kills took place over about 8 years in about a 500 square mile area in the foothills of the Himalayas. The animal's uncanny ability to grab people out of their houses at night was downright spooky.
 
NMSbowhunter said:
To quote Corbett: " No curfew order has ever been more strictly enforced, and more implicitly obeyed, than the curfew imposed by the man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag." Life went on as normal until the sun went down and then people shut themselves up in their houses in terror. This lasted for years.

The actual kill count of the Leopard of Rudraprayag was likely much higher. It was a remote and mountainous part of India and communication was difficult. Record keeping was hit or miss and the kills took place over about 8 years in about a 500 square mile area in the foothills of the Himalayas. The animal's uncanny ability to grab people out of their houses at night was downright spooky.
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Yeah, it was wild the shear area it covered. I actually saw a bobcat on the way home today that was a size I was unaware they could get
 
I remember one of my very first bow hunts. I took an old API steel climber way back to a remote food plot on our lease for an evening hunt. About an hour before dark, I heard a commotion and saw a limping doe crash through the thick understory surrounding the plot and run out into the open. She made a big loop on the plot and circled round and reentered the woods. About the time she disappeared from sight I saw what was chasing her, it was a bobcat and I swear that thing looked like the size of a German Shepard. It followed her trail and went back in the woods too. They crashed around in the woods for a while and then it was all quiet.

Talk about a hair-raising walk out in the pitch dark that night.

I also had one run in on me during summer scouting one time chasing a rabbit. I was down along a thick streamside management zone and the rabbit ran through then the bobcat came in on its heels. The cat saw me and froze at about 12 yards. It stared at me then turned and slinked off watching me over its shoulder the whole time.
 
Surprisingly, if you made me pick an animal to be killed by, I would choose some type of cat. They suffocate their prey as you can see in this video. That's a lot cleaner than how it goes with lots of other predators.

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And yet in an urban area people panic and post all over the Ring doorbell app about the Yotes they see and when a bobcat shows up want to make sure that no one tries to harm it and manufacture ways to get the kitty some food and warmth.
 
Money is always on a cat in a fight. Unless its a house cat vs a coyote.

I would rather release wolves and coyotes out of a trap than releasing bobcats out of a trap. Got a lot of practice releasing bobcats here recently. Havent released an otter yet and hope never to have to as that would be my #1 thing to not have to release.
 
I killed one this bow season that was putting a stalk on a small fawn. First shot I just barely missed him but his lock on the fawn was so tight that it just stepped over the arrow and kept slipping. Second arrow was money though. When I recovered it the first arrow actually had a blade cut its throat and the cat never flinched. Cats are sketchy as f.
 
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