Bobcats move into foreclosed Home

PeterUK - 03 September 2008 09:19 PM

Bobcats move into foreclosed Home

They are so cute!  At least the foreclosed home is serving some purpose!

Wow.  I watched Tuscany Hills get built up while I was growing up.  Part of it failed (read: they only finished some of the streets before they ran out of money) during the last bust.  This is just history repeating itself.

Tuscany is literally up on a hill.  In high school I’d see how fast I could get my manual transmission car going while coasting down the huge grade of a street they built to get folks up there.  I usually got up to 75-80 mph.  Hardly anybody lived there so it wasn’t terribly dangerous.

Yep, the last home I purchased in New Mexico (Near Santa Fe) had evidence of wolves/dogs living in there.  Thankfully no more problems after we cleaned up the place and got some renters in there.

but bobcats?  Sheesh, I would not want to be anywhere near a angry 40lb cat….

-bix

I was riding on the Backbay with a friend one day, we turned a corner and there was a HUGE Bobcat (I think) standing right in the middle of the Path…we just kept going REALLY fast!! He was bigger than a fully grown Golden Retriever..when we passed Him I told my friend I just had to ride faster than him

Soooo…. where are the LOL cats?
-bix

With real estate values plummeting and foreclosed homes sitting empty, a family of bobcats apparently decided the time was right to pounce.

So last week, they slipped out of the parched foothills of Lake Elsinore and into a spacious, vacant home in well-groomed Tuscany Hills.

http://bubbletracking.blogspot.com/2008/09/bobcats-delight-tuscany-hills-part-iii.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bobcats5-2008sep05,0,2286826.story

PeterUK - 04 September 2008 11:55 PM

I was riding on the Backbay with a friend one day, we turned a corner and there was a HUGE Bobcat (I think) standing right in the middle of the Path…we just kept going REALLY fast!! He was bigger than a fully grown Golden Retriever..when we passed Him I told my friend I just had to ride faster than him

Many years ago a mountain biker was killed and several were injured by mountain lions in Foothill Ranch.

http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/forums/viewthread/3010/

biscuitninja - 05 September 2008 09:01 AM

Soooo…. where are the LOL cats?
-bix

“I was riding on the Backbay with a friend one day, we turned a corner and there was a HUGE Bobcat (I think) standing right in the middle of the Path…we just kept going REALLY fast!! He was bigger than a fully grown Golden Retriever..when we passed Him I told my friend I just had to ride faster than him.“

I saw one also near where the 73 FWY goes over the path.  It was at dusk a couple of months ago and I was jogging by myself.  It scurried across the path and into the bushes about 50 yards ahead of me.  I didn’t pursue it!

OMG that picture is scary! I always suspect big cats are involved when I see pictures of lost pets around. Such a horrible thought. We’ve had a picture of a little white dog on our bank of mailboxes for months now :(

Where I live I have the following critters wonder through my lot and neighborhood:

Coyotes, deer, wild pigs (javilina), squirrels, and an occasional bobcat keep me on my toes when walking my dogs.

They make for some interesting sounds at night.

enjoy

Major Schadenfreude - 21 October 2008 12:26 PM

“I was riding on the Backbay with a friend one day, we turned a corner and there was a HUGE Bobcat (I think) standing right in the middle of the Path…we just kept going REALLY fast!! He was bigger than a fully grown Golden Retriever..when we passed Him I told my friend I just had to ride faster than him.“

I saw one also near where the 73 FWY goes over the path.  It was at dusk a couple of months ago and I was jogging by myself.  It scurried across the path and into the bushes about 50 yards ahead of me.  I didn’t pursue it!

I saw a bobcat next to the bike path at Harvard and Sweet Shade this Sunday around 11am.  Never realize they get that far from the woody area like the Maon Park or the Foothill area.  Glad that the boys are on the tandem bike with me.