My Wildcat (?) or some kind of animal photo

[estranged4life]

a housecat to me, I own a rather large housecat ("Ace") who is larger than some Wildcats that reside in this area (The wildcats in the area have ears like lynx's and are 'Bobtails'...aka 'Bobcats', Beautiful animals.)

One thing I love about living in a small rural community is that we see all types of animals from bats to rattlesnakes to Bison/Buffalo to my favorite the Timberwolf

[StevieNicksEO17]

I think it just looks like a regular old house cat.

[WelshWitchPMD]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

One thing I love about living in a small rural community is that we see all types of animals from bats to rattlesnakes to Bison/Buffalo to my favorite the Timberwolf

I can do without all those animals. Yes, I am a baby and I don't like wild animals. But they do sound beautiful.

[Sugar]

Yeah looks like a big housecat. We get some pretty sizeable ones around here too.

Incidently ( and speaking of wild animals) here's a Great Blue Heron I rescued this year...

[WelshWitchPMD]

Originally Posted by Sugar

Yeah looks like a big housecat. We get some pretty sizeable ones around here too.

Incidently ( and speaking of wild animals) here's a Great Blue Heron I rescued this year...

He is strapped right in the passengers seat.

[Sugar]

Originally Posted by WelshWitchPMD

He is strapped right in the passengers seat.

Yeah... He was horribly injured and trapped in my back yard compost heap. I called a local wildlife shelter and they told me how to catch him so I could bring him to them. That was right before we left when I realized this would be my last chance to get a photo!

[WelshWitchPMD]

Originally Posted by Sugar

Yeah... He was horribly injured and trapped in my back yard compost heap. I called a local wildlife shelter and they told me how to catch him so I could bring him to them. That was right before we left when I realized this would be my last chance to get a photo!

That was nice and brave of you. I am a city girl and have no clue about wild or any kind of animals.

[WelshWitchPMD]

Well, anyway here is a photo of winter in coastal RI.

[amber]

Originally Posted by Sugar

Yeah looks like a big housecat. We get some pretty sizeable ones around here too.

Incidently ( and speaking of wild animals) here's a Great Blue Heron I rescued this year...

You? Are the bomb.
And, Pattie, I know everyone is saying that just looks like a big housecat, but it looks stranger than that to me. Did you get a sense of it's size? Cause it looks really big to me. Also it looks like it has a strange face/body shape.

[estranged4life]

someone finds a snake and tries to kill it...It grates my nerves cause I love snakes

Several years back, Late one evening I was sleeping peacefully (Worked the daytime shift) and Deb made it home from work and she must have been getting ready to take a shower when I heard her scream basically 'blue murder' because in our towel cabinet curled up in a nice size ball was a beautiful 1.5 foot long snake!

So being the dry sense of humor person that I am I just reached in the cabinet picked this snake up in my hands, Opened the front door and released it into the grass outside then proceeded to go back to sleep without saying one thing to Deb the whole time.

Moral to the story-I hate being woke up when I am asleep, Unless it is a MAJOR emergency do not disturb the a-hole in his bed

[amber]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

someone finds a snake and tries to kill it...It grates my nerves cause I love snakes

Several years back, Late one evening I was sleeping peacefully (Worked the daytime shift) and Deb made it home from work and she must have been getting ready to take a shower when I heard her scream basically 'blue murder' because in our towel cabinet curled up in a nice size ball was a beautiful 1.5 foot long snake!

So being the dry sense of humor person that I am I just reached in the cabinet picked this snake up in my hands, Opened the front door and released it into the grass outside then proceeded to go back to sleep without saying one thing to Deb the whole time.

Moral to the story-I hate being woke up when I am asleep, Unless it is a MAJOR emergency do not disturb the a-hole in his bed

I like snakes, too. You know, non poisonous ones? But I did wake up my dad for the potato bug in my shoe. He, too, had worked strange hours (swing). He was about as pleased as you were, being awaken.

[Sugar]

Hey thanks Amber and Pattie! I'm lucky since the shelter is only about 1/2 hour away...and besides...what else was I going to do...let a freakin' BLUE HERON die in my yard??? His wing was really mangled and even when I went to capture him he was so weak he didn't put up much of a fight. Very sad.

And this ain't the country or anything (I live in an immediate suburb of Philadelphia), but my husband has made a habit out of photographing all the local wildlife that finds its way into our yard. We have photos of opossums, racoons, skunks, and even a wild turkey! We live on a street that dead ends at a creek, and there's deer down there. My husband always finds baby snakes and frogs in the yard too!

Maybe I'll post some more local wildlife photos if I feel like re-sizing them...

[amber]

Originally Posted by Sugar

Hey thanks Amber and Pattie! I'm lucky since the shelter is only about 1/2 hour away...and besides...what else was I going to do...let a freakin' BLUE HERON die in my yard??? His wing was really mangled and even when I went to capture him he was so weak he didn't put up much of a fight. Very sad.

And this ain't the country or anything (I live in an immediate suburb of Philadelphia), but my husband has made a habit out of photographing all the local wildlife that finds its way into our yard. We have photos of opossums, racoons, skunks, and even a wild turkey! We live on a street that dead ends at a creek, and there's deer down there. My husband always finds baby snakes and frogs in the yard too!

Maybe I'll post some more local wildlife photos if I feel like re-sizing them...

Were they able to rehabilitate the heron? Just curious. I think lots of kinds of herons are endangered, or something, due to loss of wetlands/habitat. But, hey, what isn't endangered nowadays? I would enjoy seeing more photos.

[Sugar]

Originally Posted by amber

Were they able to rehabilitate the heron? Just curious. I think lots of kinds of herons are endangered, or something, due to loss of wetlands/habitat. But, hey, what isn't endangered nowadays? I would enjoy seeing more photos.

I never called to find out about the heron. I didn't have the heart since they told me when I dropped it off that things didn't look good for it. Not only was his wing mangled but twisted around its break like three times . On the ride, too, I'm giving him a pep talk the whole way because he was SO listless, I thought he was going to die right there. "Don't die in my car, Mr. Heron, we don't have far to go now..." I am glad I did it though!

I work on some photos!

[SuzeQuze]

OMG Pattie! Is this what you saw? I just saw this animal on The Today Show and thought of your post. A lynx looks very similar to a house cat but it has a very short tail, like only 4 inches long. The wildlife guy said they can be found in New England, although I'm not sure what it would be doing in Rhode Island because I'm sure he meant up north further.