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Old 08-18-2012, 11:51 PM
 
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HR, that link is pretty much what we have seen. Ours smaller but the coloring is correct but with the short tail.
Well, the size of the cat in the pic is hard to determine, but the proportions are definitely similar (very tall compared to size). Most I've seen have the longer tail just like that too.

I've been wanting to install a "game cam" in the back yard. Surprised no one has done it yet, the normal ones are cheap. I want one with wifi though so I can record on the PC, they are starting to come down in price but still too high for just my curiosity...
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Old 08-19-2012, 09:19 AM
 
Location: Port Charlotte
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I have seen bob cats in Arizona, Minnesota, Nebraska, and here and they all look a little different. I think this was a young one. We had one walk right in front of us 20yards a couple years ago. Not a house cat but a lot lankier than other bob cats I have seen. I thought maybe some type of ferrell cat & I have seen lots of those also but this is just how the bob cats here look.
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Old 08-19-2012, 09:43 AM
 
Location: Punta Gorda and Maryland
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This guy jumped up on my moms fence yesterday then jumped down into her yard and walked around a while.
Pat that doesn't look like a Bob Cat because of its short tail. But it definitely has the ear shapes of a cat that isn't a pet. It is WAY to big to be a common house - cat. It could be some exotic cat or a cross-breed. It doesn't look large enough to be a Florida Panther. It would be cool if you could email it to some Vet or someone at the zoo to give you a positive ID of it.

I had a couple house cats (when I grew up on a farm), that were huge - 35lb cats - their paws were as big as my fist. It used to bring wood chucks, opossums, squirrels, rabbits (mostly), and once even a half a raccoon home. It would eat half, and leave half on the front porch for us. I was always afraid it would bring one of our neighbors cats or dogs home - but it never did. So some domestic cats and cross breeds can get really big.
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Old 08-19-2012, 02:20 PM
 
Location: Port Charlotte
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We have a bobcat that regularly crosses our back yard, and sometimes comes along the side of the house. There is a well worn path under the power lines at the back. As we are in a heavily wooded area it is easy for it to disappear. Like everyone else ours is that same tawny brown, without spots, but with a bobbed tail. The tail is much shorter than the first picture shows. I am not sure that it has all those tufts of hair in the ears. More like the panther but without the tail and stands about two feet at the shoulder. It is not much concerned with the presence of humans. Might be eying us up as a snack.
Now I am starting to wonder just what we all have here. Something new and different?
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Old 08-19-2012, 03:49 PM
 
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How about gray one's? I have seen a gray cat twice in gulf cove, bigger then a house cat, but has a tail?
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