[AlpacaTalk] RE: Odd Injury
Footnote on the strange apparent attack. I feel certain now it was a
bobcat, not only from speaking to folks around here, but also because
yesterday during my cleaning and inspection of the wound I discovered
that the 2 smaller slashes on the upper neck are actually 5 - 3 close
together and the 2 outer ones a bit further apart, consistent with
claws....really sharp claws. I have been told that the bobcat would not
on purpose go after an animal so much larger than itself; that it had to
have been a defensive action. That matches my thoughts about what could
have happened....
have been the only one to get up to go check it out. I can imagine his
nose down poking into what was happening and the cat swatting him away;
the first swat grazing his neck and the 2nd really nailing him lower
down on the base of the neck.
I rested a bit easier last night holding tight to what I had been told
that the bobcats around here don't go after deer and the like, only
rabbits, fowl, squirrel, etc. The ducks are locked back up :-(.
Thanks! Janice
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posted by Chaddo at 6:09 AM
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