[AlpacaTalk] Bobcat!
<<I've gotten slightly more practiucal since. We had to shoot a bobcat
that was IN MY BARN!!! the other night. My bf and a friend did skin
that and now it's (ugh!) in my freezer until we find a tannery.
Still, the emotional connection isn't there...
>>
OK, speaking of bobcats, just before/almost dusk last night, standing at
the kitchen sink I saw something I could not quite identify walking the
back horse pasture fence. Alarmed enough to grab my binoculars and lo
and behold just as I feared it was a sizable bobcat strolling just
inside the fence line headed towards the woods. Holy cow. I no longer
have any doubts about what happened to my duck and alpacas this summer
(the horrible neck wounds and the eye slashed a few weeks later).
I remembered Morgen saying this (above); but this guy was gone before I
could have gotten it together to even find my gun, ammo, and get out
there. It's been so long since I shot a gun anyway I couldn't have hit
him. But not sure I have could actually done it anyway. I have never
killed a living creature and used to care for exotic cats at an exotic
animal sanctuary in S FL. But if it had to come down to a choice
between my alpacas and the bobcat, well that is a no brainer.
Every outside light I have was left on last night. I didn't sleep a
wink and couldn't wait to get up and out this morning to check on
everyone. All is well. But I will not rest easy now. Back to
considering pasture dogs; but what info I gathered this summer after the
severe injuries was so mixed as to make to stop considering. Wonder if
just some yard dogs from the Rescue would work good enough, and not risk
having something actually in with the livestock?
I am wondering about seeing him out and about before dark? Once I saw a
fox cross my property in broad daylight and was told he was likely rabid
as foxes don't normally come out in the daytime; or that he was starving
and seeking food for him/herself or babies.
Warmly, Janice
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