On 9/24/13 6:31 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:30:20 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 9/24/13 5:25 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:46:28 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

http://gfretwell.com/wildlife/Bobcat...%20through.jpg


How wonderful to be able to see that sort of scene.

When the bobcats come in, they are everywhere. Keep your kitty inside.
We have a few here and a few weeks ago, my neighbor found his tabby
shredded. It wasn't chewed like a dog might do. It was ripped apart.
There are a couple of other cats missing.
Bobcats are the suspect. It might be a panther tho. We get one of them
in the scrub from time to time.
Right now the glades and Big Cypress are flooded so all sorts of
critters are moving into the neighborhoods of Naples and East Estero.



We don't let our pets outdoors. The only time they leave the house is
when they visit the vet each year, and in those cases, they are
transported in the car in a pet transporter.

Wise choice. I don't let Mr Ed run around and he weighs 112 pounds

I'm sure the critters moving into Naples and East Estero, whatever that
is, don't appreciate what the developers have done to the local real
estate.

I am not sure the critters care. The panthers do OK until they get hit
by a car. Black bears seem to really like civilization. They can hole
up in a fairly urban environment and be real hard to find.
It took 3 weeks to track one down in downtown Ft Myers. There were
dozens of cell phone pictures but FWC couldn't find it.
Of course rabbits, raccoons and possums make themselves right at home.
There is an article in this months's Scientific American about coyotes
settling into Manhattan.


One of my buddies has a heavily wooded 20-acre lot out on Page County,
Virginia, adjacent to the Shenandoah, and on a part of the lot he
discovered a couple of years ago a substantial cave. In the cave were
lots of skeletons of eaten mammals. He took a plaster cast of the
footprints inside and outside the cave, showed the cast to a ranger, and
was told, "No doubt about it...bears."

Haven't talked to that bud in a while, so I don't know if he's had an
actual encounter with the cave bear(s). Probably black bears like these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0zvkkwU4Ao

When my wife was in Tallahassee, she had an apartment next to a large
forest there and saw black bears on the edge of the woods a couple of
times.