[LMB] (Chat) Foxes! OT:

[Paula Lieberman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <CatMtn at aol.com>


> In a message dated 7/18/2006 2:13:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> mathews55 at msn.com writes:
>
> We have  hugely oversized kitty cats and bears coming in from the 
> mountains
> looking  for something to eat or even, in this time of drought, for water. 
> No
> city  incidents yet, but some in the towns in the East Mountains.
> Cottontails  and jackrabbits, prairie dogs (huge controversies over
> relocating them vs  poisoning them), coyotes, owls, mourning doves and 
> robin
> redbreasts, and  everywhere, roadrunners.
>
> M:
>
> One of my more vivid memories is of a bobcat coming to drink at the cat's
> water dish during a drought, the cat watching from a windowsill, and 
> falling off
> onto the dog when the bobcat looked up at him.  The  cat apparently 
> thought
> the dog was the bobcat, the dog thought the  cat was, and there was an
> extremely confused and noisy squabble while the  bobcat calmly finished 
> his drink and
> departed.


On my previous laptop I have a picture of "Hugo the bobcat" who the owner 
took home thinking that the reral but friendly cat hanging around a 7-11 
that the owner wanted gone, was a felis domesticus.  He took it to the vet 
for a checkup and the vet disabused him of his assumption.  The cat looks 
like a large, somewhat oddly-shaped overgrown housecat with  stumpy tail.