If you're not fast, catch pole would come in handy to keep it from lunging towards ya and assisting it to the ground to do ya biz. Call the fire department!

I agree with you. My camp is on the other side of the County, in the northwest corner near the NY state line.

struggling with the photos here, sorry for the delay. They are almost all over the 2.2 MB limit, and I do not know how to save a new copy as a smaller file. I am trying, though

Open with Paint......Resize......then Save As

I typically use the original file name and add -1 at the end. That way, I still have the original and the resized pic and I know which is which by the -1 at the end of the name.

I am trying to follow your guidance, QBD, and how do I resize the file? Thank you

And I am using the "Resize" button, but the file remains the same 3.3MB as it was before. Or so it says

Try opening them in Windows Live, go to gallery, right click and choose resize-medium.

After this there are no more photos. Scott held the cat down properly and I put a heavy wool blanket over it, twice, because it knocked it off the first time. Second time the cat quieted down and I was able to grab the trap and release it. The whole time we were studying its leg. Then Scott loosened the loop, I pulled off the blanket and stepped back, he popped the loop off and over its head, and as usual, the cat sat there staring at us, hissing. A few gentle prods with the pole and it went into the brush. We watched it carefully to make sure it was not injured.
Let's not do that again

As you can see, I finally figured out your directions. The booger was that my computer maintained the original size (3.3MB), whereas the file was significantly smaller. Anyhow, you helped a lot, QBD, thank you. And thanks to you, Lugnut, for stepping in again.
I can do this, I really really can

Looks like you got it done anyway.

After you click on Resize, you have to change the value in Horizontal or vertical box to something less than 100 and then Save As

Thank you. I finally did figure that out. I never claimed to be smart! Really appreciate your help, QBD

Awesome pics, you had quite an adventure today. I’m glad it all worked out.

Thanks, Lugnut! As you well know, our bobcat season begins in two days. I started setting traps yesterday, and just putting in pee posts, that's it, thinking that I'd get coyotes, fox, and maybe coon. Possums have showed up in my pee post sets in the past, so it stands to reason that a bobcat could, too. But t.h.i.s. c.l.o.s.e. to the season is tough to take, because this will probably be the only cat I catch all season. Oh sure, I saw bobcats during bear and deer seasons. Of course! But Murphy's Law is likely to step in here. Other irksome thing about this is the first set was perfect. So perfect for a coyote. I used dry field grass for bedding, and dry crisp golden rod tops and leaves for the cover. It was so perfectly blended....now, who knows how it will perform.
Anyhow, you are right, it was an adventure, and I learned something new.

Lugnut: "I agree with you. My camp is on the other side of the County, in the northwest corner near the NY state line."


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Lugnut, your camp is in a very special, quiet corner of the world. Member here PCR is up there too, I think. A real good place to live, or to retire when you can. Not too many other places I would want to be. Maybe Alaska. PA still has a high freedom index (guns, trapping, hunting, etc.), which is why I strongly support the PGC; that one agency is one of the very few left in the nation that will send a uniformed officer with a badge and gun to stand in front of a class of young students and, among other related things, explain how they have second amendment rights. Gotta hold on to PGC

Glad it worked out. THanks for sharing your day with us

Thank you! That set was perfect. I will probably never be able to replicate it

I couldn't agree with you more about everything you've said.

PCR's place isn't very far from my camp and I do have plans to retire up there, or at least spend much more time up there in the next few years.

Yes, we can't let the state legislature continue to financially strangle the PGC and turn almost 1.5 million acres of SGL's into bike trails for spandex wearing yuppies!