Is it just me or does thus kitty look like it's on steroids? First I've ever had on the game cam. Grandson made the observation that the previous pic was a big doe standing in the same spot 8 mins. before. Well he's not that big...but you gotta admire an overachiever!

Love it, Looks like he means business

A buddy of mine does taxidermy and I saw a bobcat that he just finished. I was HUGE. I've seen bobcats in the wild and in captivity, wild and tame ones you could pet (their purr is cool), but never one as big as the one he mounted.

Healthy.I bet a bred mature female with that smaller head.Great picture.

Definitely looks healthy!

Great pic. I usually see at least two a year while deer hunting.

Got some big shoulders, looks like a well fed Tom.

I live in Arizona and Ill tell you that Ive seen a ton of bobcats. Every now and then you'll see one thats just much bigger than the normal. They look like a small pit bull.

I think overall it's smaller than it looks the small head makes the body look larger that's why I guessed mature female but who knows

Sure looks healthy!

I am in love with the fact that they still exist in healthy numbers. Like bears, I would never kill one.

Me neither. I have no desire to kill a fox either. I used to, but then I raised them and some were very tame and affectionate. Even kept one in the house and it just acted like one of our dogs. Wild ones have enough trouble with all the coyotes around nowadays, they don't need me killin em too.

The only one(s) I've seen in the wild was many years ago while scouting a game lands with a buddy. We were slowly driving an old dirt farm road through a soybean field and came upon two kittens wrestling around in the middle of the road. I just about had my buddy talked into putting them in my truck with us. When he reached for the door I screamed "NO DON'T"! He looked at me like "what the hell" and I pointed to the first soybean row beside us and there was momma's head poking out. What he called me I can't print here, it was way past an 'R' rating!

I've seen several here while out hunting or stumping, they are beautiful. Had one sit on a log just about 5 yards behind me one morning when I was bowhunting. It had a gray squirrel in it's mouth and after a rest, went on up the mountain. I must have blended in well to that root hole I was sitting in. I've no need to kill them or foxes either.

That's a big boy!

I had my first one on my game camera a few weeks ago. I’m the same as you guys. I don’t even shoot ground hogs anymore.

I had a female with 3 kittens walk past me once hunting on the ground I didn't know they were there until I heard purring! I don't kill them anymore either but used to, they jump 6 feet high when you shoot one with an arrow.We see them alot in North Florida.

That would be nice to see, Mike.

I enjoy and remember those kind of 'bowhunting experiences' as much or more than any deer I've killed with a bow.

I've called them in when coyote hunting. they sneak in S L O W L Y where yotes often come slamming in. I let 'em slink away after watching them a little bit. I like their style.

Where we hunt in Texas the ranch manager wants us to shoot everyone we see the ranchers say they are very hard on the deer population . Cats are abundant on every ranch that I have been to in Texas, we called 10 in 3 days once but were restricted to the bow on that particular ranch and didnt get any, my boy missed 3 and the ones I had a chance at bolted at the draw. I did manage to shoot one with my longbow a few years ago, what a reaction to the shot . Beautiful animals, Ive had several trail camera pictures of cats while hog hunting but none in Texas ever come close to looking like that cat in you pic .I seen one in SD that was huge but I have never seen on in my home state ND. Ive heard the Mountain lions kill them . .

Im with 4nolz,Looks like female with the smaller head.

Olddogrib ,Next time you see it turn it over and check for us,wont take but just a second or two....I will even do the checking if you will hold it still...

No thanks. My buddy was the type that would do anything on a dare. I'd already seen momma when we eased to a stop and thought he had too. I'd have just been guilty of being an accessory and had to go try to pull her off of him. We were of an age it would've been hard to live down both getting our azz whipped by something that might have weighed 30 lbs. soaking wet and lactating. I'm a lot wiser now....well "a lot" might be a stretch!

My wife shot at a big cat in South Texas. She missed, but said it really launched at the shot. She was still trembling 2 hours later. The ranch we were on had a bunch of them. We saw them almost every time we drove on the senderos.

Murray

I've gotten them on camera but never seen one live. Seems odd that I've seen bears, mink, coyote, otters and moose in central Massachusetts but never a bobcat. Elusive buggers!

The kitty's cousin Wiley from a year ago at the same location. No wonder I'm not seeing as many rabbits these days...hhhmmmm!

And their Unca Smokey from last spring also, different location. Smokey is more of an opportunist than a predator. He's lazy, won't work and has repeated run-ins with authority (probably a "tosspot")

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