Here is a snapshot of a cat in our back yard. Pelts don't bring much $ now that it is chic to degrade fur wearers. Still since we have a breeding population on and near our property I might choose to thin out the population some in favor of survivability of bobwhite quail chicks and such. Wife got off two shots (digicam) and I let it go seeing as how it went out of sight before I had a chance to grab a gun. I don't have a need to kill everything that comes along but... we have feral cats every so often and between them and these bobcats the quail population is struggling to keep its numbers.

Oh well, Bob, next time. Now if I had put out the new beaver traps (yes those are back and felling trees) maybe under cover of snow the bobcat would have managed to get caught by one.

OK, I notice that it is hard to get the perspective with no "yardstick" in the picture. This bobcat is larger than the largest "house-cat" I have ever seen.