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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted January 28, 2008 06:27 PM
One team showed up at our hunt this weekend having killed a most unusually marked bobcat.
The belly was exceptionally wide coming over halfway up the animal's sides. Very wide and white with glaringly dark black spots. But, that was the only black on her other than a big black tip on her tail. All the spots in the normally tawny part of her hair were cinnamon colored. The white inside of her legs came clear around and up the outside of her legs, and the white that normally is on the bottom jaw and upper lip came clear to the level of the eyes. The backs of her ears were orange where they should have been grizzled black, too. A few pics.
Very bright looking 'cat.
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Robert Tabby
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posted January 28, 2008 07:02 PM
that is a pretty kitty, bet it wasn't taken to far from a ranch house.
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Locohead
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posted January 28, 2008 08:47 PM
No kidding man, that first picture of the face looks really domestic! Cool critter.
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Kelly Jackson
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posted January 29, 2008 05:58 AM
Never seen one marked like that. thx for the pic.
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted January 29, 2008 11:30 AM
Fact is, in Kansas, you're never too far from a farm house or ranch, nor are you beyond where any old farm cat or dog would be willing to go on a walkabout.
Loco, kinda makes you wonder just how easily they can X-breed with domestic cats, doesn't it?
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Locohead
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posted January 29, 2008 11:52 AM
Lance,
Was it really small too? Pictures I know can be deceiving but that cute little critter looks about 10 lbs. I think your right, its a coycat.
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Cdog911
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posted January 29, 2008 03:38 PM
About 11.5 to be exact, Loco. Good guess.
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Leonard
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posted January 29, 2008 03:54 PM
Lance, did it really have a black tipped tail? Close inspection will show that what looks to be a black tip is actually a white tip, on a bobcat. Most easily seen from the underside of the tail. Also, it's not so much black on the ears, as it is white patches, which virtually all spotted cats possess.
Good hunting. LB
[ January 29, 2008, 03:55 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]
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Baldknobber
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posted January 29, 2008 05:19 PM
I'd say mama was an ol' orange striped tabby.
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Cdog911
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posted January 29, 2008 06:14 PM
Leonard, the tail did have white on the underside as normal, and the ears, as seen, were normally marked, except that the part that's usually pigmented grizzled blackish grey was redish orange. That black on top of the tail and the spots on the belly were the only true black on this cat, and not in any other spots.
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stevecriner
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posted January 29, 2008 07:55 PM
That cat aint anything near as unusual as the cat Tad Brown called in Kansas. I think it was on the lohman predator challeng 2 video. IT was yellow and white. They had some good footage of it.
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Robert Tabby
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posted January 29, 2008 08:32 PM
Well i don't know Tad brown, but this cat sure looks unusual. i cant say i was ever very impressed with anything from lohman.
stevecriner,
Does your area have a good population of bobcats? the area i am in does, but we don't see to many cats colored unusual like that. So i find it hard for anyone to down play it from the norm.
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