Wild Bobcats Move Into Foreclosed Home in California

[Yavin4]

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_sbobcat03.3df7b63.html

"One home in the Tuscany Hills area of Lake Elsinore has all the marks of a foreclosure: a dead brown lawn, neglected flowerbeds and notices on the front door.

And one more thing: bobcats.

A pair of the wildcats and their young appear to have taken up residence in the backyard, animal control officials say.

Karen Brown, a nearby resident, said a neighbor came to her door last Wednesday evening and told her there were "mountain lion cubs" across the street from her Vista Palermo home."


"They were just lounging there," Brown said. "They were literally just lying on the wall looking at us."

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Yeah, they were wondering what you were doing on their property!

[ColbertWatcher]

1. This pair moved in for their kits ...

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bobcats5-2008sep05,1,1680944.story

[KittyWampus]

6. Prrrrrrrr-etty kitties, it says there was a koi pond in the backyard. Good eats!

[barbtries]

2. follow the link

there's a picture. they're beautiful cats.

[CoffeeCat]

3. My grandma used to tell me stories about..

...the onion sandwiches that they use to eat during The Great Depression.

I suppose this is one of the stories I'll tell my grandchildren about "The Great Unraveling".

"You see kids. After so many homes were foreclosed, and the neighborhoods were practically deserted,
mountain lions took over the houses."

The news gets more strange every day.

[NNN0LHI]

9. Didn't live through the depression but I consider a Miracle Whip and sweet onion sandwich a delicacy

Give it a try sometime.

Don

[grilled onions]

4. Brings New Meaning To The Words Cat House

But truly it's a sad commentary. Homeowners lost out. Animals displaced by decades of urban sprawl finally start taking back what once was theirs.

[XemaSab]

5. Someone should be shot at dawn

just for coming up with those names.

Tuscany. :eyes:

[Lorien]

7. Why would animal control officers even bother with them?

it's not like they're disrupting anything on the property. In fact they're providing a valuable service by keeping the rodents and pigeons at bay!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Undoubtedly, they'd make better neighbors than some I've had.

[uppityperson]

10. That is very cool, beautiful cats.

[saltpoint]

11. Next comes the newspaper subscription, a new lawn mower, picking a dentist,

and arranging that first parent-teacher conference.