Glass of sherry on a coffee table with a leather sofa in the background.

Keep Calm and Sip Some Sherry

Glass of sherry on a coffee table with a leather sofa in the background.

A magnet for creepy cats of the bobcat variety, our neighborhood street is getting wilder and wilder. We’ve seen bears, coyote, and the occasional skydiver. (No one has landed in our yard yet, but chances are, someone will.)

In any case, a bobcat, the newest level of neighborhood alarm was papped, the resulting photo placed on the neighborhood Facebook page. And, it looked like it could have been hanging out right near our house. In the photo, it appeared pretty chill, but I wouldn’t taunt it with a stick or anything.

It turns out that bobcats aren’t dangerous to humans. They rarely attack, unless they have rabies—or babies—or both. What to do? Run? Play dead? Throw it a ball of string? Most experts say to remain calm and back away slowly. I prefer to stay in my house, with bit of sherry.

So that’s what I’ll do. I’ll just sit near the window, with a glass of sherry, the rain pouring down outside. Not sure if I’ll spot a bobcat, but if I do, I’ll raise my glass, crack the window just a bit, and ask it what happened to all the cul-de-sac bears.

Your Turn: What would you do if you saw a bobcat?

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18 thoughts on “Keep Calm and Sip Some Sherry”

  2. We had a bobcat hybrid that lived on our deck in the cat-a-loo for one whole winter. My cats – who also lived on the enclosed deck – were intimidated by the bobcat – but still stayed hidden away in various spots on the deck.

    Every morning I had to knock on the front door – before I opened it – so that the bobcat would know I was getting ready to open the front – so it had time to go out through the cat door and leave.

    I found out months later that the bobcat was a She and that she had been owned by someone who lived about 10 miles North of us – on the Snohomish boundary line [which means that 10 feet from the street where the cat had lived was the sign that said Snohomish City Limits]. One day someone in their house had accidentally left the back door open and the bobcat left. For several years afterward there were sitings of her further up the road – closer to the DNR land [at the foot of Mt Pilchuck]..

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  4. I’d stay in my house. If the dog is outside, I’d bring him in. When we lived in Florida, we once saw two French-Canadians poke an alligator with a stick because it wasn’t moving. They were lucky the thing didn’t attack them.

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