Opinion - will a bobcat harm my 20# dog

leave the bobcat alone, he is no threat to an able bodied dog

I've seen trail cam pics of Bobcats killing fawns and yearlings.... 20lb pup has no chance against determined Bobcat IMO.

Vote for Pew Pew.

quote:

---

I don't think a bobcat will tangle with a dog.

Our beagles jump a bobcat every now and then during hunting season and nothing has ever happened.

---

Flushing a Bobcat with a couple of beagles and having a bobcat decide to merc Fluffy while its out Tee Teeing are 2 completely different things

let it be. dog will be fine.

quote:

---

Try this- decide you want to kill it, and start hunting it, you'll never see it again.

---

Ain’t that the truth!

quote:

---

Ain’t that the truth!

---

Humans give off some kind of pheromone that animals can detect. There's a WMA near me with deer all over it, you'll see multiple deer on any given trip, and it's one that is visited year round because it has 14 stocked lakes with boat ramps, horse trails, gun range, nature center, etc. The deer are used to the people being there year round. But on day 1 of hunting season, they disappear. As soon as the hunters show up, giving off their "I'm here to kill" pheromones, the deer smell it and haul arse.

I bet as soon as OP walks outside with a loaded gun with the intent to kill, that bobcat will sense it and haul arse.

Simple answer is yes he will frick your terrier up in the quickest way possible, if certain event make it happen. Is the terrier small enough to make a possible meal? I have seen hawks try to eat a rat terrier before.

What kind of terrier are we talking about?

There is a difference between a “pack” of beagles/dogs and a single small terrier. I have seen a half grown bobcat make a 60lb lab bleed like a stuck hog, BUT the lab initiated the fight. The bobcat was trying to hide until it couldn’t. It became a “you or me” kind of fight for the bobcat. The half grown bobcat lost the fight before cutting my dog even worse because a guy working for me shot it at 2’ while it was on its back, but my lab was bleeding pretty good for at least 30 min. I will say he was proud as Hell after he felt like he killed it. That same lab wouldn’t give a frick how big a coon was or how bad another dog thought it was though. I was giving the here command until he literally picked it up and started bringing that wild fricker to me like a duck.

quote:

---

Humans give off some kind of pheromone that animals can detect. There's a WMA near me with deer all over it, you'll see multiple deer on any given trip, and it's one that is visited year round because it has 14 stocked lakes with boat ramps, horse trails, gun range, nature center, etc.

---

And people hunt these deer in these designated areas? It is like driving by a deer standing in the field. If you stop they run, but if you just keep driving they stay there and pay you no attention or just watch you drive by.

quote:

---

Personally I think a bobcat could absolutely mess up that 20 pound dog of it wanted to

---

I think so too. But also, I’d leave the cat alone.