A friend sent me this picture of a kitty roaming a small town just north of me.

Do yall still gotta draw a permit to trap em?

That would make you look twice.

Yes we have to apply for a permit. I got a permit this year.

He looks real thin?

Tail is not long enough for a big kitty.

Ok how about big kitty bobcat.

I'd be setting a trap.lol

Looks like a good spot for a rub set on that down spout! Bricks might be a tad hard to bed the trap though, Kevin! lol

Except for the tail that looks more like an ocelot to me than a bobcat. It sure is well spotted. I caught a number of bobcats when living in western Ky and unfortunately none had spotted backs like that.

Northwest Illinois, wow! But you all have more patches of forest than say out here in eastern Dakota or at least that's what I see in my mind. But maybe there is hope for us yet in se SD to have a sustained bobcat population.

A kid caught one here about 10-15 miles southeast of me a few years back. He had to give it up to the state agency. They put the hide up for sale in their yearly auction of wildlife parts they had acquired over the year, such as antlers, etc. Most of the people at the auction had gotten word about the kid's story and declined to bid on it when the bcat hide was offered. Except for one jack*** who didn't care. The family got the hide back but it cost them a good amount of coin.

Well pull a brick out and set! Lol

Kev, been hearing several stories of bobcats walking around the Rockford area in daylight hours for years...now there's proof. Nice 'cat!