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Just went out and checked one of my cams, this cat was only about 150 feet from the house.
 
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this cat is now working on my bait pile at my house, but a week ago it killed a 100lb doe 20yds from the back of my house in a very small patch of woods with another neighbor right in back of that. the doe was healthy and you could see where the cat had hold of it's throat. I could not believe it when I saw it. cat season is not till the 1st of December, then if it comes out in daylight it's a goner, and this one as you see with yours, it's not bothered by daylight. just shows they can take down a healthy deer any time they want, shows again the importance of predator hunting
don
 

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Once they get used to being around the houses, not much bothers them. Our dogs are behind fences and every couple of days they light up and I expect the cat is close.
Most of the follow up pics of the cat are during the daytime. Suspect a big male and he has no problems using my wood roads as his travel corridor. Ditto on Dec. 1.
Ed
 
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I've seen lots of bobcats in Ga during my 62 years living and hunting there. Most I saw while I was deer hunting. I killed two cats way back in the 1960s with a muzzleloader but didn't shoot any of them since then.

Here in Va. a couple of years ago, a bobcat was stalking a woman in the Blue Ridge not far from our town. She was with a male companion. When the cat attacked her companion saw it and fought it off. But it was a pyrrhic victory at best. He might as well have been juggling chainsaws!
 
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I've seen lots of bobcats in Ga during my 62 years living and hunting there. Most I saw while I was deer hunting. I killed two cats way back in the 1960s with a muzzleloader but didn't shoot any of them since then.

Here in Va. a couple of years ago, a bobcat was stalking a woman in the Blue Ridge not far from our town. She was with a male companion. When the cat attacked her companion saw it and fought it off. But it was a pyrrhic victory at best. He might as well have been juggling chainsaws!
That's crazy! I've never heard of a bobcat stalking a person, I know mountain lions have been known to do that though. What exactly do you mean by a male companion? She had a male dog or cat or boyfriend or what?
 
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I hadn't ever heard of it before, either. I do know a couple of cases where a hunter in a tree stand accidentally, and unknowingly, shared the tree with a bobcat. They were clawed up pretty good but it was from the cat simply trying to escape rather than any intent.
 
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