Bobcats move into foreclosed home

[Liberal_in_LA]

With homeowner in doghouse, bobcats move in

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Karen Brown
Bobcats lounge on a vacant and foreclosed home on Vista Palermo in Lake Elsinore.

A family of feline squatters has moved into a foreclosed home in Lake Elsinore. Residents of the Tuscany Hills development first noticed the bobcats about a week ago.

By David Kelly, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
12:06 PM PDT, September 4, 2008

Taking advantage of a slump in local real estate, a family of bobcats has moved into a foreclosed Lake Elsinore home, lolling about on fences and walls and riveting an entire neighborhood.

Neighbors first noticed the feline squatters Aug. 27 hanging out on a side wall of the empty house in the Tuscany Hills development. At first, they thought the animals were mountain lions and someone called 911.


Four police units arrived, ordering everyone off the street and into their homes.

But once the officers realized the animals were bobcats, they -- like many of the neighbors -- started snapping cellphone pictures.


Since then, animal-control officials have been going door to door in the neighborhood, warning residents to keep an eye on their children and pets and not to leave water outside. It is unclear whether they plan to remove the animals.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bobcats5-2008sep05,0,2286826.story

[KitchenWitch]

1. I saw that story on 7 this morning

It made me smile a little.

[CatWoman]

2. aren't the beautiful????

I hope no one hurts them :cry:

[KitchenWitch]

3. I hope so too

But I am guessing they will probably be euthanized. x(

[Shakespeare]

5. Hopefully they won't be; they're not really the threat that mountain lions are.

And everybody's pretty charmed by them right now. I think they're awesome.

[kath]

6. Aren't ehy too small to be much of a threat?

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. No. Bobcats are being left alone. No one is bothering 'em.

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/realestatenews/archives/148035.asp

Bobcats pounce on foreclosed home
A family of bobcat squatters has moved into a foreclosed home in Lake Elsinore, Calif., according to a story in the Los Angeles Times.

Residents of the Tuscany Hills development first noticed the bobcats – at least two adults and three kittens – about a week ago, when they lolled atop a wall outside the Spanish-style house, the story says.

Monique Middleton, of Animal Friends of the Valley, which provides animal-control services, told the paper the bobcats were drawn to the home's backyard koi pond and would probably move on in a few weeks, once the kittens were old enough to travel.

The Times quoted Scott Brown, who moved there from Long Beach to be close to nature, as calling the cats "great neighbors."

"And as long as they don't want to baby-sit my kids, it's not a problem," he said.

Posted by Aubrey Cohen at September 5, 2008 4:06 p.m

[DS1]

4. bad ass!