Bobcats as pets ?

I've had coons and groundhogs as pets when I was going up, I guess I never thought of a bobcat or lynx. Probably the biggest thing would be get it as young as possible and raise it as a regular cat.
 
There was a sporting goods store around when I was growing up that had two bobcats in the back room as the store pets... They acted just like a regular house cat every time I saw them, really cool.
 
yeah! a guy by me had a few and aswell a shop and had them displayed in a cage at his shop....my town cracked down on exotic pets and he moved cause he didunt wants give them up...i dont blame him....happends about once every 10 years someone complains then every one gets caught!....check out youtube alot of videos about them as pets! aswell as red foxes i think the fox is a much more active pet
 
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It's hard enough to trust a domestic house cat, but anything from the wild could revert back to the wild, at any time and could NOT be trusted...especially in the form a of a cat.
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I never seen a cat in my life time, that didn't answer to the name of target.
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Good hunting, Bowhunter57
 
One of those is gonna kill the other house cats... "guys this is fluffly and we just got her yesterday! as you can see she plays well with the other.. OH MY GOSH! BAD FLUFFY!"
 
I've got a couple of bobtailed barncats that I'm pretty sure are half bobcat. They are taller legged & shorter bodied than regular housecats. I've got a 70# Pit/American bulldog mix thats scared of them. Pretends he dosen't see them when they walk across the yard. I guess they got their bluff in when he was a puppy...
 
That's animal cruelty putting a goofy sred hat and dressing us the big bad kitty like that. Lol. I agree someday they will come home to house cat carnage. It's their natural instinct to kill and you can't stop or change nature.
 
Ask Sea World about their pet whales.

I would sure be worried being around some of those cats in vids on YouTube. Even after a few generations of "pet" breeding it would take many more to breed the wild aspects out for me to feel safe around them.

JMHO
 
I have a friend here that used to be government trapper and he has one but they are pretty careful of it. But they really like it.
 
I hate cat hater/killers. We had one of those deviant, sick freaks living on our street and when the neighborhood found out he came real close to getting a taste of his own medicine.

When I was a kid I had two friends that were brothers that called me up real excited one summer day, telling me to come over and see the badass cat an old woman had given them. I went over there and in their room was a big Charmen cardboard box with their new cat in it. They told me to wait a second before looking in as one rounded up their mother's toy poodle and dropped it in. That box would go airborn like in the cartoons before the screaching little leg humper managed to jump out. When I looked inside it was right in the dbl. wide face of a pissed off, full grown bobcat. After slamming the lid I told them "thats a [beeep] bobcat!" Just like the picture in the Boy Scout manual.
 
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I know a guy that had one for about 4 years then it got away from his house.He lives in the middle of a town of 75,000 people.He missed it so he got another and 3 months later the first one showed up in his backyard.LOL! now he has two.They ride around with him everyday in his little van,he has a tag on front that reads " protected by bobcat".
 
I would have one but I would have to have it when it was only day old and bottle raise it. We had an old couple down the street growing up they had a pet raccoon and a pet bobcat as a kit it was awesome they would walk them on a leash then Kalifornia cracked down on exotic pets. I have always wanted a raccoon lol rp
 
When I was operating heavy equip. in the eighties a dump truck driver showed up on the job and during a brief BS session another crew member told me to go look in his truck cab at his cat inside. I stepped up on the running board figuring to see a Persian or something but when I looked down there was a full grown 160lb. mountain lion curled up asleep on the seat below...Whoa. He rode around in that crazy [beeep]'s truck with him until he ripped mouthfuls of foam out of the seat one day. We went over to his house once after work and his big cat named Apache was in a chain link pen in the backyard. As a prank we didn't tell another crew member about the cat and the owner brought him in the house on a leash and that lion let loose the classic 'crazy woman' scream. The target of the joke went over the coffee table and took the front screen door with him running out of the house. Off the leash that cat then proceeded to run horizonatally along the walls screaming, like a daredevil motor cyclist inside the 'wall of death', happy to come in. Even though he was declawed I remember I sat down on the couch trying to be inconspicuos (sp)and he finally came up and hissed in my face. He didn't like being ignored. I sparred with him and he hit hard, but when he realized you weren't afraid of him it confused him. He was cool. He left perfect wet tracks on the hardwood floor as the owner explained big cats perspire through their feet. He said he got loose once and ran down and killed a domestic cat in a heartbeat. That instincts probably carried over from the wild when they encounter a bobcat.

I also had a pet boar 'coon named Jesse as a kid. An hysterical neighbor lady called one evening asking if I would come get my pet 'raccoon'. When I got there there was a formal cocktail party going on and Jesse was on a wrecked buffet table with food all over the floor, washing his hands in the punch bowl as terrified guests stood at a distance. He never did like to share. Some drunk woman thought he was cute begging at the back patio door and had let him in.
 
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my dads best friend had one for years that stayed in the house. it used a kids kiddy pool like you would buy at walmart as a litter box. it was alittle over 40lbs and laid on the couch with them in the evenings and watched t.v. it ended up having to be put down for health reasons(old). they also raised a female african lion and kept it in the house for a few months. i remember my dad getting down in the kitchen floor and playing with it and it swatted him across the floor and into the refrigerator. he about pee'd his pants on that one but it was only playing. at one time it was the largest female african lion on the east coast. he had to give it to a facility with a large enclosurer. we used to take it entire deer carcasses and it would take 3 guys to pull the carcasses up the hill to feed it and it could grab the entire thing in its mouth and jump up on its cage with the deer in its mouth and eat it. i know one thing, i dont need pets like that. i think at one time he mentioned it was costing him almost 1k a month to feed that lion..
 
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