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CAVE CREEK, AZ - An unusual moment between a house cat and a bobcat outside a Cave Creek home has become the talk of the Valley. The star of the story is a house cat named Pima. She and her sister Mogey were the first ones to spot the bobcat.

My friend out in New Mexico set up an automatic game camera aimed at his water pans he puts out for birds. This is a snap he got last night of a Bobcat carrying a hapless mouse...it's very cute :-)

I got the photos in an e-mail, but tracked it down to this original source: http://www.kpho.com/news/27463717/detail.html Pretty amazing pics of a bobcat perched on top of what has got to be 15-foot tall saguro. Do view the source and check out the slideshow.

Enraged bobcat attacks dog, injures man Staff April 21, 2010 + Enlarge The Pinal County Public Health Services District is issuing a rabies advisory, urging Pinal County residents to have their animals vaccinated against the fatal disease. On April 20 a resident of Mammoth was attacked by a bobcat while outside his home in his yard. The bobcat lunged from under a parked vehicle and caused numerous bite and scratch injuries to the victim before friends assisted, beating it with sticks and a gardening hoe until it ran off. The man received medical attention for his wounds. The bobcat then...

PHOENIX -- A Valley man has some surprising visitors in his attic -- a family of bobcats. Fred Greenshaw does not go to his attic often, but he went up there to grab an ice cream maker for his daughter's birthday. Instead, he found himself looking straight into the eyes of a bobcat. "I heard that real low growl so I stopped what I was doing and I climbed back down," Greenshaw said. He says he also heard something coming from behind some boxes. "I could hear a baby crying," he said. [snip]

PORT LUDLOW, Wash. (AP) -- A Washington state homeowner says he left his front door open for his own cats. He wasn't expecting a 35-pound bobcat to walk in, but that's what happened. The Port Ludlow resident told animal control officers he watched the wild cat jump over a couch, climb over a big screen TV and then jump up to a loft, where it made itself at home.

WHISTLER, British Columbia -- A local lynx padded across the Winter Olympic downhill course Wednesday while a training session was halted because of fog. "Get out of the way," Canadian downhiller Manuel Osborne-Paradis said. "Oh wow -- you do not want to get close to that." Fortunately for the orange-and-black lynx and the skiers, the session was already on hold due to low visibility and none of the Olympic athletes encountered the four-legged feline. Still, officials broadcast a warning over the race radio to make sure no skiers were on the course and eventually the lynx hopped over the barriers...

Here is video of James Gruver on Fox and Friends, where he talked about his experience of killing a rabid bobcat with his bare hands. Gruver managed to get the bobcat in a "death grip" and survive. . . . (VIDEO)

Story Updated: Sep 14, 2009 at 5:23 PM CDT It's been confirmed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources that the animal that attacked a Hermantown man over the weekend was almost certainly a bobcat. Gary Lucia was attacked in his garage by a bobcat while trying to defend his pet ducks and geese. Lucia has set up several traps in the woods around Lucia's house to prevent the animal from returning to do any more damage. Bobcats are fairly common in the Northland but rarely attack people. The nocturnal cats are about two times the size of an average...

When the Cox family of Novato unpacked from a weekend coast trip, they were initially humored by what looked like a small kitten that had sneaked in through a front door they had propped open as they brought bags inside. "My son J.D. said, 'Look, a kitten came in the house,'" said Kim Cox, recalling the events that occurred about noon Sunday. "We all thought it was a kitten, and he was wandering around the living room. But then it freaked out and hid underneath the couch." The Coxes, a self-described "dog family," then called friend Sue Hunt, who is...

HAILEY (AP) — A central Idaho man will be allowed to keep his bobcat at his home at least until August. Police were called in last week in Hailey when a resident of this tourist town south of Sun Valley reported a big cat had jumped his fence. Initially, Hailey Police ordered Anthony Pruitt, the cat's owner, to remove it from city limits.

<p>COTTONWOOD,, Ariz. (AP) -- Three people in the central Arizona community of Cottonwood were attacked by a bobcat, including two men who were bitten by the animal after it wandered inside a bar.</p> <p>Officers called to the Chapparal Bar on Main Street arrived to find the bobcat in the parking lot , and they shot and killed it.</p>

COTTONWOOD, Arizona - A bobcat attacked three people in a community in central Arizona, including two men who were bitten when the animal wandered inside a bar. Officers called to the Chapparal Bar in Cottonwood arrived to find the bobcat in the parking lot, where they shot and killed it, KVRD-FM radio reported.

Willard Gore's no stranger to tough fighting. A Vietnam veteran and a career educator with years of experience in labor contract negotiations, he could write a book. But those were long battles, while his most recent struggle was very, very brief, happening at lightning speed. In fact, the terrorizing suddenness was among the enemy's most dangerous weapons. Gore was attacked by a bobcat. It happened Sunday, March 30, about 6:30 a.m. on a farm in the Defeated community of Smith County. He and a friend, Bill Davis, had gone there to hunt wild turkeys. Davis went to one end of...

For years there have been stories of Black Florida Panthers prowling in our wilderness, but there's never been any official record they exist. Now that mystery may be over. A cat has been captured and researchers at the Busch Wildlife Sanctuary say they now know what people were referring to when they said they saw the panther. We're all familiar with the Florida Panther, golden in color and about 130 pounds. You may have also heard of a "Black Panther," which has been like our local Lochness Monster; people have said they've seen it, but it's never been caught. One...

PASCO COUNTY Vietnam vet kills rabid bobcat in fight for survival BY CAMILLE C. SPENCER St. Petersburg Times WESLEY CHAPEL -- Dale Rippy, 62, a quick-thinking Vietnam veteran, choked to death a growling bobcat that lunged at him from his back porch. Pasco County officials praised Rippy for his quick thinking. ''If he let the cat go, we would have had more victims,'' said Denise Hilton, animal services manager for Pasco County Animal Control. Recuperating from puncture wounds Tuesday, Rippy told about his confrontation with the 25-pound bobcat. ''If that cat had attacked a child, it would've been really bad,''...

Bobcat Company is responding to the tremendous damage left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina by expediting equipment shipments to hardest-hit areas and offering a deferred loan-payment program. Bobcat Company is a business of Ingersoll-Rand Company Limited, a diversified industrial firm. Bobcat officials say the company's Litchfield, Minn., factory began shipping industrial grapple attachments (used on Bobcat and competitive compact equipment) to Alabama and Mississippi Sunday night, anticipating the need. Six truckloads of grapples and three truckloads of Bobcat® loaders arrived in Mobile, Ala., Wednesday morning. Also, a portion of factory production at Bobcat facilities in North Dakota, Minnesota, and...

WYMAN TOWNSHIP -- A hungry bobcat that thought a frail, older house cat sunning himself on a porch might make an easy meal didn't reckon with its 90-year-old owner. Mildred Luce, who raised eight children and was used to being self-sufficient in this rural township 21 miles north of Kingfield, didn't think twice when she looked outside and saw her beloved cat's head locked inside the wildcat's mouth. "I heard a scuffling outside and when I looked out, I saw the bobcat lying on its side facing Smudge with her head in its mouth," Luce said from her Route 27...

Bobbie Hardee, 63, had the fright of her life Wednesday morning. The Horry County woman fought off a rabid bobcat outside her home with a garden hoe for more than 15 minutes until a neighbor came and shot it. "I didn't have time to get scared. I was out there and didn't know what else to do," she said. S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control officials are warning residents to be on the lookout for animals acting strangely or aggressively, especially wild animals approaching humans. It's more common in the spring for people to run into rabid animals because...

Bobcat captured from patio deck of Plano home Officers now going after three kittens12:05 PM CDT on Thursday, August 19, 2004 Associated Press PLANO – Life is on the wild side beneath the backyard patio deck of Gail Grau's Plano home. Animal control officers called to the home Wednesday captured a mother bobcat. Now, they're going after three bobcat kittens they believe are under the back deck. Animal Trapper Cliff Moore and his crew has removed part of the deck to search for the kittens. Grau said she first noticed the mother about two weeks ago, but didn't call animal...

Harvard told: Be on lookout for wild bobcat By CATHY JOHNSTONSun Correspondent Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - HARVARD A bobcat is believed to be roaming the Pinnacle Hill and Littleton roads area of town, Police Chief Edward Denmark said. The large feline was spotted during the weekend jumping onto a stone wall and in the back yard of a home on Pinnacle Hill Road, he said. Bobcats have been reported in several Nashoba Valley communities over the past year. A bobcat is described as being tan-colored, about 2 feet high, with a long body from 3 to 4 feet in...

Bobcat Bites Woman in Her Basement Tue Mar 16,10:43 PM ET NARROWS, Va. - A woman in this mountain town was attacked and bitten by a bobcat in her basement Tuesday afternoon. According to a dispatcher with the Giles County Sheriff's Office, the woman kept a basement window open so her pet cats could come and go. The bobcat apparently climbed through the window. The woman, whose name was not released by police, went to her basement to get something out of the freezer about 3 p.m. and saw the bobcat, the dispatcher said. When the woman turned to run,...

<p>The high-pitched screech came first, then a flurry of teeth and claws.</p> <p>On Sunday, a renegade bobcat injured a hiker, charged a park ranger's truck and pounced on another park ranger before it was shot and killed -- still clinging to her arm -- in Rock Springs Run State Reserve near the Orange County line.</p> <p>The first of three attacks by what authorities suspect was a rabid bobcat came midmorning.</p>