Wonderer67
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I know there are bobcats in our part of NJ, but I’ve never heard or seen one.I’ve had a couple or three Bobcat encounters over the years. The first one was sitting on my uncles back porch having coffee. A cat walked out by his dog pens, he bred Irish Setters and the dogs were going ape-shit. As she walked off a big (I assume) male walked out snarling and growling. Hot on her trail. Never even looked twice at the dogs!
The second one was coming out of a deer stand at twilight. Walking in the dark back to camp. I heard a blood curdling screech and growl…scared? Hell yes! Never saw that kitty, which made it more unsettling!
That screech must’ve been scary as hell!!
My dad swore up and down (well he was a sailor after all) that he saw a bobcat on the woods near where I grew up. This would have been around 1980 and would have been very very rare.