Wildlife experts say a bobcat found dead near a Bangor neighborhood where roughly 20 pet cats have gone missing in recent months may have played a role but likely wasn’t solely to blame for the disappearances.
Trisha Bruen, Bangor’s animal control officer, said a vehicle struck and killed the female bobcat on Buck Street near the horse barn entrance to Bass Park on Thursday. The animal was found roughly two months after the other cats began vanishing from the Fairmount neighborhood.
Those missing pet cats remain mostly unaccounted for, according to Jennifer Delano, a neighborhood resident who created a map of where they live. Only one has returned home, and neighbors haven’t reported finding the remains of any cats.
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While bobcats can kill house cats and the carcass was found near where so many of the pets have been reported missing, Bruen said she doesn’t believe more than a dozen cats could have fallen victim to a single one of them.
“I still believe multiple species of wildlife, and possibly even some humans, are responsible for the missing cats,” Bruen said. “The only way to ensure our cats don’t fall victim to wildlife attacks, thefts and vehicle strikes is to keep them inside.”
Jennifer Vashon, a game research supervisor for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, agreed that house cats have a variety of natural predators, including bobcats, but added that it would be “pure speculation” to say the one that was found on Tuesday was responsible for all the missing Fairmount cats.
While the bobcat could hunt a house cat, Delano said neighbors are still divided on what or who is causing the cats to go missing. Some believe a coyote is responsible, as they’ve been known to roam through the neighborhood. Others think human involvement is more likely.
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How are you going to go repost the same video that's already been debunked early in this thread? Yes it has been proven that at least two people have killed and eaten cats in or near Springfield Ohio recently but neither of those people were Haitian. And that's the main problem I pointed out about J.D. Vance and you said that he "made a mistake" and now you're doubling down on the same mistake. You remind me of the people that kept pushing the Iraq WMD story even after Dubya had backed away from it.
