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<blockquote data-quote="HOSS" data-source="post: 882017" data-attributes="member: 1863"><p>ga.prime, my grandfather killed one here in Tennessee back in the late 1920's. The local doctor saw it at dusk in a big tree while making his rounds via horse and buggy. It had his horses all worked up. He stopped at the next house which happened to be my grandfathers to calm the horses. My grandfather, who was a late teen then, took his gun and a miners lamp down the road and the cat was still in the tree so he shot it. He also called it a "painter". He said they were around but fairly rare back then. He said it was a big cat. He carried it home with the hind legs over his shoulder and the head would scrape the ground and he was 6' 2" or so. He took it to town the next morning and it was the talk of the town for awhile. He said it was also a tawny tan color.</p><p></p><p>Back when I was a younker my Grandmother tamed a big bobcat. Well it was young when she got it but grew big. My grandfather found it in the woods while squirrel hunting. He brought it home and she bottle fed it. It grew very large for a bobcat and stayed out in the woods but would come up to the back of the garden and wait on her to bring it table scraps every evening. She would never let us get near it and we had to watch from the porch. She figured keeping it fed was better than it eating her chickens. It would brush up next to her but avoided anybody else. It just dissapeared one day after it was a few years old and never came back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HOSS, post: 882017, member: 1863"] ga.prime, my grandfather killed one here in Tennessee back in the late 1920's. The local doctor saw it at dusk in a big tree while making his rounds via horse and buggy. It had his horses all worked up. He stopped at the next house which happened to be my grandfathers to calm the horses. My grandfather, who was a late teen then, took his gun and a miners lamp down the road and the cat was still in the tree so he shot it. He also called it a "painter". He said they were around but fairly rare back then. He said it was a big cat. He carried it home with the hind legs over his shoulder and the head would scrape the ground and he was 6' 2" or so. He took it to town the next morning and it was the talk of the town for awhile. He said it was also a tawny tan color. Back when I was a younker my Grandmother tamed a big bobcat. Well it was young when she got it but grew big. My grandfather found it in the woods while squirrel hunting. He brought it home and she bottle fed it. It grew very large for a bobcat and stayed out in the woods but would come up to the back of the garden and wait on her to bring it table scraps every evening. She would never let us get near it and we had to watch from the porch. She figured keeping it fed was better than it eating her chickens. It would brush up next to her but avoided anybody else. It just dissapeared one day after it was a few years old and never came back. [/QUOTE]
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