My neighbor, Yvonne, told me this story a few days ago: When snow was on the ground (late January, early February) she had a buck and 2 does come each day to eat birdseed under her birdfeeder. She said the buck had small horns, 2 points on one side and 3 on the other. One day she looks out her window and the buck was running across her lawn with a bobcat on his back/neck. He ran across the road and into the swamp (my property). Said she never saw the buck again. This morning I took a walk where she said he went and found the buck about 100 yards from the road. Note: it is in water now because of all the rain we received this week.

All they need to do is get their mouth around the throat and shut off the blood and air flow. U must not have many coyotes there or I'd think they would have those bones scattered everywhere by now.

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a full skeleton like that.

I’m with Yes! Critters should have that carcass scattered. Even a cat would carry some parts off I think. Appears only birds have been at it.

But we have no bobcat problems in this state. It's a shame we'll likely never see a hunting or trapping season for them.

Looks mighty intact.
Wouldn’t look like that around here lol

We used to have a lot of yotes around here, and I would find intact skeletons like that fairly regular. But at about that point, the bones start to get scattered. Come back next fall and I bet the bones will be scattered.
Very few yotes in north IN now, but the red fox are returning. Still haven’t seen a gray since the mid 1990’s, and they were common in the early 80’s

Because we had so much rain this winter the carcass was likely froze in the ice within a few days of death. I snare coyotes on my property all winter, by February they are scarce. I am surprised a bear has not had at it yet.

I’ve found bobcat Killed deer before. A huge buck was killed on game farm in Minnesota and caught on camera. It went inbetween antlers and clamped down on nose and mouth It was a huge cat. I got on film a bobcat fighting and killing a coon that had to weigh close to as much as the cat. Cats have killed off are fishers and the DNR is clueless as to why the decline of fishers

Oh and intact skeleton here is common with coyote Wolf kill never , that’s a sure way to tell wolf kill when no snow. You find a chewed skull with maybe little spine attached and maybe another bone or two on wolf kills but in my experience never with coyote kill or bobcat kill. Cats will normally only eat a small amount and then the coyotes will finish it off.

In the 1960’s before the coyote population exploded here in NY, we had a $25 bounty on bobcats in NY. On the Tug Hill Plateau bobcats were at the time the apex predator. When deer were in their winter yards and with several feet of snow pack, cats decimated our deer herd. But with the bounty houndsmen all but wiped out the cats.

Today coyotes are top predators here, but bobcats are now also back in good numbers. With both predators our deer herd has again suffered.

One dead deer does not a bobcat problem make.....

This was said with tongue in cheek. Bobcats here are considered an endangered specie when actually we are overrun with them. It was a rare day on my trapline this winter that I did not see a bobcat.

The Wisconsin DNR is clueless as to how many cats we have here in Wisconsin. When we had few cats in the 80’s they gave lots of tags and I got one every year and then after the cat population exploded they cut tags to 100 and it took up to ten years to get tag while in Minnesota right across the boarder every resident could go after 5 a year every year and their cat population exploded right along with ours. I have zero respect for our DNR for many valid reasons. Much more could be said and all of it proven.

I think some Toms specialize at deer harvest. I have found where several deer lay within 200 yards in various stages of being fed on.

Kitties r tuff! They’re hungry too!

I have no doubt bobcats can take down anything we have here in the South. It’s just a matter of if they want to. I had deer raising cane while in the stand last year and knew it wasn’t my scent because they were upwind. I watched a bobcat come from the small thick pines and head down the firebreak another hundred yards and cut back into the pines and the deer down there went crazy. For reference I have pics of deer and coyotes enjoying a meal of peanuts together, lol. See coyotes and possums, and coyotes and coons together. Nothing is friends with the bobcat. There’s a reason for that.

Cats are an amazing predator for lots of reasons. I love the cats but boy they need more control. We had a cat once that I watched belly crawling across the wide open lawn towards a robin. I kind of laughed thinking you goofy cat you have no chance. Our house cat keep slowly creeping forward and at what I thought was a ridicules distance lunged forward then as the robin burst into flight the cat leaped high in the air and grabbed the robin and brought it down. I’d hate to have a mountain lion after me. A guy I was elk hunting with had close call with cougar that kept rushing up to within 12 feet of him He missed it 4 times with arrow’s because to dark to see sights. Scared the crap out him. Warden he talked to later said he wished he’d killed it as a guy had been killed that summer by lion. Warden said any cat that dosnt run when yelled at needs killing.

Several years ago I watched my old housecat run, yep run, up in a tree and kill a full grown squirrel then bring it down the tree in her mouth. Cats are just amazing killing machines.
I think a bobcat could kill a man if it wanted to.

cool story, thanks for sharing