Darn thing ate our favorite chicken 🐯🐱 UNKNOWN FELINE 🐱🐯

Spotted them here coming back for more right in the middle of the day.

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Sorry for your loss. You are going to have to keep your chickens in the run for a while, if not indefinitely. I had a bobcat problem, and it kept coming back. Carried off 2 hens, over 6ft fence with an electric wire. Chickens are now kept in a highly secure coop and run. Chickens are prey animals, so getting killed happens. It would suit you to look up predators in your area so you can figure out how to protect your animals and property. Good luck.

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u/CaptainObvious110 Sep 24 '24

Good advice. Just sad that OP didn't do this before

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u/wojswat Sep 24 '24

it's a lack of knowledge, most of the time sadly the only way to get rid of it is gaining life experience. After having an experience that requires more knowledge, you try to make up for that mistake (without life experience most of the time you do not even know you were making a mistake or lacking knowledge)

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u/CaptainObvious110 Sep 24 '24

Yeah most definitely.

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u/Famous-Bullfrog4760 Sep 24 '24

they said they had let the chickens out to graze (or whatever chickens do) when the attack happened ;/

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u/CaptainObvious110 Sep 24 '24

Well then clearly that's a bad idea given the circumstances.

What's ironic is that there may be less animals for the bobcat to eat due to domestic cats nearby killing everything.

Then again, maybe not because a Bobcat could totally take a domestic cat quite literally.

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u/Famous-Bullfrog4760 Sep 24 '24

there u go, let’s get the bobcats to start hunting the “outdoor” cats then the chickens will be safe and our ecosystems will come back lmfao

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u/CaptainObvious110 Sep 24 '24

I love that idea. Bobcats are awesome!