This is pretty much the highlight of my weekend, hence me posting about it on Facebook and Twitter, also.
Eric and I are sitting in the dining room, eating lunch. We have the curtain of the window overlooking the deck pulled open. Out of the corner of my eye I catch movement on our deck. We have lots of stray and outdoor cats in our neighborhood, so that’s what I was expecting. It was a cat, alright. A bob cat.
Eric says, “Go get a phone. Take pictures!” But I didn’t want to scare it off with any hasty movements. Once it got out of my eyesight I booked upstairs for my camera. It was long gone by the time I got back, though, or so I thought. I ventured out onto the deck, half-way expecting it to come running from out of underneath it. But it wasn’t under the deck. Eric came out to join in me in my pursuit and spotted it. It was in a box, probably an old cabinet, in this fenced off area in the corner of our yard.
Let the video begin:
(Yeah, yeah, yeah… all the work we’ve put into the yard and it still looks like THAT.)
Eventually the bob cat jumped over the fence into a neighbor’s yard. Lao spent the next half an hour running from window to window trying to find it again. He was not a happy kittens. That was my first wild bob cat sighting. It seemed to be a juvenile. It was certainly bigger than our cats but not as big as I think they can get, based on ones I’ve seen at zoos. It was pretty neat to see, especially since it was kinda lolling around. Its little half-tail wagging was adorable.
