Rural/Farm Life
Related: About this forumI think we have a bobcat as a neighbor , first time ever hearing the cry
We live close to michaux state forest its rural a very mountainous terrain. On back porch having coffee after work enjoying the birds singing, and I heard this growl or scream several times so I googled bobcat and it sounds the same Im thinking cool.
Mister Ed
(6,365 posts)Where my folks lived, there was a bobcat named Narf. We didn't figure out for years that it was a bobcat. It was just this creature out there in the dark, in the woods and the fields, that could sometimes be heard to go, "narf. narf."
My little brother and his friends, when they were teenagers, would hear it when they were out there doing whatever it was they shouldn't be doing. They didn't know what it was, so they named it Narf.
Sometimes Narf would let out a terrifying scream instead, and scare the pants off them. Eventually, we figured out that Narf was a bobcat, and not some sort of hobgoblin.
Haggard Celine
(17,034 posts)where I grew up. They would sound just like a woman screaming. Being outside and hearing that sound at night would just about make my blood run cold.
Duncanpup
(13,738 posts)And yes our dogs did as well it was chilling.
BumRushDaShow
(143,427 posts)I know where my sis is, it's just horrible when they start howling in the middle of the night because it sounds like a "help help help".
Haggard Celine
(17,034 posts)It sounds like a dog that's being abused. I wouldn't like to hear that at night, either.
BumRushDaShow
(143,427 posts)when the foxes are out and people aren't familiar with their "scream". She has a black lab who obviously senses them and will suddenly start barking at them (from inside) in the middle of the night.
2naSalit
(93,098 posts)Liked to take a dump right near my cabin on occasion. I saw it's leavings and tracks but never saw it.
Duncanpup
(13,738 posts)Same here Ive never seen one in the wild.
2naSalit
(93,098 posts)when it was near my place.
jaxexpat
(7,794 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,593 posts)Not sure if it was a bobcat or a lynx. Just sitting watching traffic.
Duncanpup
(13,738 posts)Ive never seen one in the wild.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,593 posts)I tried to get it out of the road so it wouldn't get hit. The bird wasn't having any of it.
Also had a house cat, Big Dennis. Measured him once, 22 inch waist.
3Hotdogs
(13,482 posts)Bobcats.
rattlesnakes,
deer
beaver
copperheads,
porcupine. ---- all in Sussex County
deer
mink. -
Otter - Sussex County and Burlington County.
Fox and kits in my daughter's yard in Hunterdon County. Also deer.
There is a mountain lion that is reported to be roaming in the Pine Barrens.
Oh, and l mention the deer?
cilla4progress
(25,968 posts)the horses.
I couldn't believe it didn't freak them out!
Yes - a scream that kind of sounds like a garbled, high pitch (woman's?) scream!