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  • From: BekeeprTop@aol.com
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  • Subject: [NAFEX] Two bobcats killed near Bangor, Maine USA
  • Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:21:21 EST



Two bobcats killed in Milo region

By Diana Bowley

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - Bangor Daily News



MILO - There have been some strangers lurking around the Milo-Brownville area
in recent weeks but they haven’t been the two-legged kind.

Two bobcats, which typically are nocturnal and solitary animals, were shot
and killed recently after residents raised concerned about their presence in
the
community.

"The places the bobcats are, are not places where they should be," Warden Dan
Carroll of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said Wednesday
evening.

The cold temperatures on the predators has been stressful and apparently has
worn them down so they are moving to populated areas where they can easily
catch birds at feeders and small mammals such as squirrels, according to
Carroll.

Bobcats typically dine on mice, small birds, and showshoe hares..

The bobcat population has done well over the years because of the mild
winters and the strong snowshoe hare population, according to DIF&W Wildlife
biologist Doug Kane. The young or the inexperienced however, have difficulty
feeding
themselves because of the snow depth and it is usually those animals that
head
for areas where garbage and easy prey can be found, he said Thursday.

Bobcats are seen this time of year or later almost every winter, especially
if there have been no thaws to pack the snow down, Kane explained. The
animals
are up against a unique situation this winter, however, because the snow is
granular and there have been no thaws to provide a snowpack, he noted. The
bobcats sink in the snow and find it hard to hunt. In addition, it has been
extremely cold, he said.

"Their guard comes down a little because they’re starving," Kane said. The
biologist has heard of bobcats going after pigs, chickens and even a goose
because they were so hungry.

One resident in the Orneville area told authorities in recent weeks that he
saw two bobcats in one day which is considered a rarity since the animal is
so
elusive.

The bobcat that stalked the Brownville farm and killed one goat and attempted
to kill another was shot and killed last week, according to Carroll. The
farmer told Carroll he had shot at the animal on two occasions but it
disappeared
each time. The next time the bobcat appeared, the farmer shot it.

Carroll said the killing was justified because it had attacked the farmer’s
livestock. In addition it had been open season for bobcat.



  • [NAFEX] Two bobcats killed near Bangor, Maine USA, BekeeprTop, 02/16/2007

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