A wild bobcat smacked into the basement window of a home in Bedford, Nova Scotia and stayed long enough to have its picture taken. “He seemed to be aggressive and his hair was sort of spiky,” Bob Bauer said. “You know, how cats get when they get upset.
“He’s staring at me for the longest time, and I looked at him and I thought, ‘Holy crap, that looks like a bobcat’ because he had the white around his eyes and he had little tufts of hair on his ears.”
Bobcat hissed and arched its back
An estimated 8,000 to 10,000 bobcats roam the eastern province of Nova Scotia, the population having suffered a steep decline in the late 1970s. The province’s Department of Natural Resources gets about a half dozen reports of encounters in a month. About this case, employee Butch Galvez commented “”I understand maybe it hissed and arched its back, which is something that a cat would do if it saw another cat so it probably just saw its reflection and got a little excited.”
A big bobcat can kill a deer
Bobcats weigh between five and 18 kilograms and their colour may range from light gray to reddish brown. They may be all one colour or spotted. Their main prey is the hare, but they also eat other small mammals and birds, and sometimes a larger male will take down a deer.
They pose no danger to humans but they can harm small pets.
Bobcats live in spruce-pine forests right across the southern part of Canada.
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