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Hi! I only recently lost my last cat to kidney failure, so for the first time in fifty years have no cat at all.
Yesterday I was sitting next to my house hanging out with the hens, when I heard an alert-- an insistent whistle which didn't let up. So I looked up and there was a cat in my pasture but I live in a rural, mountainous river valley where the neighbors are far away. Could the large gray cat with a medium-length tail be a bobcat/housecat hybrid? Her face had cheek fur. She walked near my goat barn and lay down. I say 'she' because there wasn't an overdeveloped cheek/neck appearance.
I ran for my binoculars but she was out of sight...around, as evidenced by the continued alert whistles, but she most likely was busy stalking ground squirrels. Ground squirrels have enjoyed a population boom in my yards because due to money/space issues I'm forced to feed my goats and chickens in a free-range style. The birds and squirrels get to clean up.
These squirrels are horrible vermin which carry plague fleas and worst of all, undermine cement, create holes where horses break their legs, and so forth. A couple of months ago a cougar was near the back fence also chasing a squirrel. So I'll leave my question to you regarding the gray cat's possible heritage while I go shoot some squirrels.
Yesterday I was sitting next to my house hanging out with the hens, when I heard an alert-- an insistent whistle which didn't let up. So I looked up and there was a cat in my pasture but I live in a rural, mountainous river valley where the neighbors are far away. Could the large gray cat with a medium-length tail be a bobcat/housecat hybrid? Her face had cheek fur. She walked near my goat barn and lay down. I say 'she' because there wasn't an overdeveloped cheek/neck appearance.
I ran for my binoculars but she was out of sight...around, as evidenced by the continued alert whistles, but she most likely was busy stalking ground squirrels. Ground squirrels have enjoyed a population boom in my yards because due to money/space issues I'm forced to feed my goats and chickens in a free-range style. The birds and squirrels get to clean up.
These squirrels are horrible vermin which carry plague fleas and worst of all, undermine cement, create holes where horses break their legs, and so forth. A couple of months ago a cougar was near the back fence also chasing a squirrel. So I'll leave my question to you regarding the gray cat's possible heritage while I go shoot some squirrels.