Picking up his rifle and skins Jack started swiftly down the gulch, intending to follow the one selected by Colorow, as he had some venison protected by two big traps and was certain to get at least a bobcat there.
Such a woodland occurs adjacent to the Bobcat Canyon drainage, and is continuous across the Mesa from above Long House to the area near Step House.
The bobcat may be an important predator upon Peromyscus in this region, but few scats of this animal were found.
The mesa top drains southeast into a pour-off at the head of Bobcat Canyon.
Bobcat Canyon Drainage Bobcat Canyon, a large secondary canyon on the eastern side of Wetherill Mesa, is a major drainage for much of the mesa at its widest part.
Shotgun in hand, he'd spent a fair portion of yesterday tracking a bobcat on the snow.
It followed that the hunter had nothing to do except rile the bobcatinto a lather and then sit down and wait.
But he must have done something wrong, or perhaps thebobcat he followed had not been sufficiently moonstruck.
The softest-footed bobcat had nothing on Mun when it came to silent stalks.
It was a proved fact that a man on foot cannot catch up with a bobcat that is also on foot.
One looks rather conspicuous walking through the streets with a bobcat on one's arm.
Blake made an effort to break loose, and as he did so a bobcat dropped from beneath his arm and fell, spitting and snarling, to the floor.
Millicent, standing near her, looked hot and unhappy, but for all that her eyes twinkled when a waiter, colliding with a chair, went down with a crash and the bobcat sped away from him in a series of awkward jumps.
Tucked under his arm were the two bobcat skins and the coyote-hide.
Among his personal effects he had two bobcat skins and a coyote-hide.
It is now hardly a six month since he saved a trapper from a bobcat and killed the animal with a knife.
It saved me once when I fought a big bobcat with only a knife.
A couple of Enright's riders comes a packin' a live bobcat into town.
The Bar-8 bobcat jumps off once or twict before he learns, an' comes mighty clost to lynchin' himse'f.
In a bobcat a three-sixteenths-inch rod will be large enough to support sturdily.
Higgins' description of the swamps as one "that a bobcat couldn't get through" was not an exaggeration.
The bobcat leaped up in the air, and then Bert threw another ball which hit it on the head.
And so, after looking back once or twice as he left the clearing, and finding that the bobcat did not follow, Bert began to feel much better.
As Tubby started off, carrying the pail of water, he suddenly bethought himself once again of that tremendous bobcat Andy had killed.
As a rule he swept the lower branches of the trees with those keen glances, for if the bobcat were lying in wait to waylay him it would select some such roost for its hiding place.
But will we have to pitch a camp in one of those other smaller buildings, and let thebobcat hold the fort in the comfortable bunkhouse, with its jolly cooking fireplace?
I've known many a putty good hunter to get the shakes when he see a bobcat a-glarin' at him from a tree.
Boys that can kill a bobcat can kill a bear, if they try," answered Sid Todd.
Something about a bobcat I don't like," went on the cowboy.
Or was it the other bobcat that came around to smell the pelt of his mate, and gave you something of a tussle?
A pretty big bobcat in the bargain, Jud, and well worth boasting over.
A wounded bobcat is nothing to be laughed at, and we may get some beauty scratches before we can finish him.
He leaped aside upon a long log that led up a bank, but at once a savage Bobcatappeared on the other end and warned him to go back.
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And many a cranky Bobcat flying before him took to a tree, and if that tree were dead and dry, Wahb heaved it down, and tree and Cat alike were dashed to bits.
And when there's an ugly bobcat ready to jump on your back or fight for the game that's in your trap, you'll wish you'd been wise enough to come prepared.
They were among my most constant companions for the few years next succeeding the evening when the bobcat interrupted the game of old sledge.
That evening we all played old sledge round the table, and at one period the game was interrupted by a frightful squawking outside which told us that a bobcat had made a raid on the chicken-house.
But you remember, we ran across a nasty bobcatup yonder once before; and if so be she happens to be laying for us, I'd like to be prepared for trouble.
If a bobcat jumped in on us right now, we'd think of using our gun, wouldn't we?
Tony is going to look after him for me," replied the one who had shot the bobcat thief.
Somewhere up the bluff a bobcat squalled among the rocks, and the moon, in its dissipated season of late rising, lifted itself indolently up to where it could peer down upon the silent ranch.
Afterward, while their ears were still strained to the sound, the bobcat squalled an answer from among the rocks.
But then you've had experience, and ought to know what sort of racket a bobcat makes when he's on the rampage?
For a space of perhaps five minutes, which to Max were like so many hours, the curious bobcat remained there, watching him as a cat might a mouse at play.
One thing brought him a little reassurance; so far as he could ascertain now, the bobcat was no longer advancing.
In Live Oak Canyon, in December, 1950, tracks and bits of fur indicated that a bobcat had killed and eaten a gray squirrel.
An old female bobcat trapped in Thompson Canyon had masses of cactus thorns beneath her skin, especially about the forelegs.
A few spotted skunks may inhabit the lower desert slope of the mountains; here feces thought to be those of spotted skunks have been found, and a bobcat trapped near the head of Grandview Canyon smelled strongly of skunk.
In Live Oak Canyon in December of 1950, tracks indicated that a bobcat had killed a gray squirrel in a small draw beneath the oaks.
A large male bobcat trapped in the juniper belt in Graham Canyon had deer hair and jack rabbit remains in its stomach.
Remains of deer were in two of the bobcat stomachs, and one of these stomachs also contained jack rabbit remains.
The spacing of the cuts, and the tracks around the set, indicated that while held in the trap this animal had fought with a second bobcat that had inflicted the fatal wounds.
Probably the bobcat and the gray fox are the most abundant carnivores in the Park.
In addition to known predation by mountain lions and coyotes on porcupines, the bobcatkills porcupines.
I was ridin' down the ole Milk Ranch Trail when I looked up and seen a bobcat lopin' straight for me.
Should he leave it in the sack, hang it from a rafter of their veranda, out of reach of a chance bobcat or coyote, or--it would be much more of a real surprise to hang the big bird in front of their door in all his feathered glory.
At the spring the bobcat drops down upon them from the black rock, and the red fox picks them up returning in the dark.
Then he was sent back to the field again, to join the Tenth Cavalry at Fort Assiniboine, Montana.
