SBMF 2015
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Do you have any kind of bounty on them?
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We've lost a lot of barn cats to bobcats. Actually, probably more than to coyotes and bald eagles.
Saw this mama on my way to town and at least one of her kits zooming around the pasture. Generally don't see them out in the open; usually in the woods.
Dave
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We don't blow big holes in the Bobcats here. They are worth too much money. There is a huge difference in the fur and coloring based on regions. Our cats are worth $300-$400 for the nice big ones.
Travlr
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Even in this town that might be frowned on... But I've shot a lot of domestic cats. I was only three miles out of town in SD and I'd see cars stop at the top of my 1/4 mile long driveway and then turn around and go back to town, and I know they were dropping off cats. I had nine show up one week. The closest county shelter was 25 miles away so that wasn't feasible, even if I could have trapped them and done several at a time. Besides, I know enough about shelters that I know they would have been euthanized anyhow. Personally, I think a quick, surprise death was more humane than being trapped, caged, transported, and then caged again until they were killed with gas.
SBMF 2015
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A good friend of mine lives in town. He uses a .22 with subsonic rounds to shoot stray cats off their garbage cans.
Travlr
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LOL... I've shot one in town. But mostly I put out a live trap just before we intend to go for a hike in the mountains about 20 miles away. I've trapped as many as three cats between 5 PM and when we leave the next morning, and I have a larger cage I can put them in so the trap is freed up. I turn them loose up in the Ponderosa/aspen forest and I figure they have plenty of stuff to hunt until they meet one of the local cougars or bobcats.
Yes, occassionally a female cat will get bred to a bobcat. Young males that have been run out of a territory, and forced into the burbs, mostly. You don't see it as much as you used to, because bobcat habitat is disappearing so rapidly.
wbvs58
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Not that I am aware of. There is a bounty on wild dogs/dingoes but then they attack a commercial entity in sheep, lambs and calves. I think it is $120 for a dog in our local government area.
Ken
