Bobcat Attack In Brevard
Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 7th, 2011
A Brevard County, Florida, woman is attacked by a bobcat. Nothing too unusual about that. What I find interesting is the different views of this felid on the video, and how sometimes it looks almost gray versus tan colored.
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This cat looks like a cat I passed on Sr-407 in Titusville. Its also in Brevard county, just half hour north.
I thought it was an Ocelot at first, but I figured it might have been to big for that.
The cat I saw had been hit by a car, but the area it was in was heavily wooded and full of game.
I am wondering if the limp is not from being chased, but a previous condition which has made it hard for the cat to hunt and may be why he is attacking humans.
I hope for the sake of the person that was attacked that the bobcat was captured and put down in order to to verify whether or not that it was rabid. I don’t usually condone the killing of animals, but an unprovoked attack on a person usually indicates that something may be wrong with the creature.
Down here in Cutler Bay a Southern part of Miami, we have seen them before. There are a few scattered farm lands here and there and canals. That is where I saw one while joghging in the earlt morning. I though it was a dog but what would a dog be doingout this far> I got closer and yes, i saw the ear and knew it was a Bobcat . It’s quite exciting to see nature still running around with the likes of tractors tearing up the land s and teenagers tearing up the road.
A desperate Bobcat for sure. The question is why? My first suspicion is that this cat has rabies, but maybe it was just the ambitious type.
Keep in mind that Bobcats are known to kill prey much larger than they are, such as deer. In fact the Eurasian Linx (similar genes) is said to live almost exclusively off deer in some instances. So, the dog probably seemed like fair game to the Bobcat, and maybe the woman also…who knows.
I do think that the families story is consistent with the unfortunate injury to it’s back leg. The husband was probably wacking at it from behind as the cat was attacking the woman’s ankles.
These are the unfortunate consequences of habitat depletion, so it’s hard for me to blame the bobcat. I feel bad for the woman too; it’s just a sad story.
I had an encounter with one at a Disney Golf Course.