Bobcat spotted outside woman's North Side home

Thank you, Doc.

At any rate, good luck with the kidding. Hopefully you will hold on to all of them and the GP's nail some of the yotes.

my family has a ranch in texas that goes back awhile. bobcats usually stay away from homes. times are tough everywhere, even in the animal kingdom.

that is no bobb cat. it a shaggy one!

I have Great Pyrenees and Llamas, and while they do help, they can't be everywhere all at once. And, there's a reason they're called "wiley" coyote. And, for me, it's kidding season. The neighbor has lambs.

If you are having that big of a problem during lambing season, maybe you should consider getting some Great Pyrenees, donkies and llamas. That will stop it in it's tracks. I know of several people that have these dogs and don't have a problem with the yotes.

but I do know there's an occasional alligator that'll pop up around S.A., remember the one that ended up on 410 a while back, lol

I thought bobcats were wiped out around here, that's crazy.

@donoho: The rabid bobcat attacked my mother on the front porch of my parents' home on their West Texas ranch. Had my nephew not been visiting and close to the house when the attack happened, my mother would not have survived the attack. She and my nephew both had to take rabies shots. Now, the goats and sheep raised in my area of TX a bit west of San Antonio fall prey to coyotes and bobcats frequently, and there is nothing more heatbreaking that finding one that survived the attack, but with its entrails dragging, therefore requiring it be put out of its misery. I've had to do that more times than I care to share. @Doc: While I don't have a problem with mountain lions, my parents do on their West Texas ranch, and you are sadly mistaken about the problems they create for livestock breeders. The further west you go, the bigger the problem. And, add certain birds of prey to that for sheep and goat raisers, and they can take up to half a crop of lambs or kids. I've rescued numerous kid goats that were being "damaged" by Cara Cara birds or Mexican buzzards before the damage was too great to save them. Even helped a doe rescue her fawn from a determined Cara Cara bird one day. Oh, and my family has been in the ranching business since TX was settled, so I'm not some dumb broad that doesn't know what I'm talking about, or lacking in experience. Now, I will say this, calves are not on the main menu for mountain lions, cougars, or coyotes if there are enough other food sources for them, but if there isn't and nothing near to "move on" to, they will take one if Momma Cow isn't close enough or attentive enough to prevent it, which doesn't happen often. And, Doc, the coyotes around here can't wait for lambing & kidding season to come to the buffet. Now, if either of you "fine gentlemen" wish to continue this discussion further with me, I'll be waiting. Also, I don't see either one of you jumping in on articles that have to do with ranching when they're on here.

I don’t believe there is much ranching going on in Stone Oak, @Butterfly, nor do I believe that mountain lions or bobcats truly constitute a risk to livestock in this part of Texas. We certainly haven’t had issues with them in the past 100 or so years up in the hill country. So now I have to ask…was the rabid bobcat from Southwest Texas State University (now UT at San Marcos)??? That’s our mascot, you know.