The North Idaho Front Porch (Idaho Falls, Hope: basement, hired, pets)

[elousv]

City of Coeur d'Alene - Osprey Cameras

[Clark Fork Fantast]

Must be a special "Osprey Goose" in the South nest right now! Thanks for the link, I'll be enjoying looking at those nests!

[sierra don]

Actually the would be a "Goospry"...........I had no idea a goose would nest up that high........

[Clark Fork Fantast]

Originally Posted by sierra don

actually the would be a "goospry"...........i had no idea a goose would nest up that high........

:d

[elousv]

Strolling with his bobcat - Coeur d'Alene Press: Local News

[sierra don]

When I move up there I'm gonna have look at getting a pet Bobcat, my cats would freak out, I think I will need a bigger cat litter box...

[Reziac]

That's a healthy-lookin' bobcat!

BTW the genetic line between domestic cats and the smaller wildcats is thin enough that in some parts of the world, they freely interbreed.

[Sage of Sagle]

Originally Posted by sierra don

When I move up there I'm gonna have look at getting a pet Bobcat, my cats would freak out, I think I will need a bigger cat litter box...

The problem is not the size of the litter box...it's the size of what you have to CLEAN out of the litter box...haha

[banjomike]

You don't want a bobcat, Sierra Don.
For very bobcat that tolerates being a pet, there is another one that never will. No one ever knows which one can be a pet or not when they're kittens.

I knew Larry Lansburgh, the Walt Disney nature movie producer, back in the 60s when he was living in Jackson Hole. He had a pet bobcat for a a few years; the cat got along with his 3 dogs and his family until she didn't one day, and killed all 3 of his dogs. And trapped his daughter in her bedroom for the rest of the afternoon until he and his wife returned home.

That the way it is with wild animals. A bobcat that's been brought up around people is more dangerous than one that hasn't.

[Reziac]

I once talked to a guy who had what was probably a bobcat/domestic cross. It had sorta forcibly adopted him (moved in and wouldn't leave), and was real doglike... except when it wasn't, and shredded his arm. It also could get real guardy, and would try to attack other people in public (and did attack dogs).

Back in the early '70s there was someone in Bozeman who had a cougar; they kept it in a big cage by the alley, along where I'd walk home from MSU every day. Some days it was friendly as all hell; other days it eyed passersby like lunch.