Are there bobcats in georgia

They may occasionally prey on smaller livestock such as goats or chickens but overall are not a major nuisance problem. Should you find yourself with a prowling bobcat and need to have it removed, All Exterminating Wildlife has you covered.

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Use night lighting with white flashing lights, or bright continuous lighting, to repel bobcats. You can also use blaring music, barking dogs, or changes in familiar structures to temporarily discourage bobcats. Bobcat information provided by GeorgiaWildlife. Common prey items include mice, rats, rabbits and various other small mammals.

However, Bobcats will also prey on reptiles, birds and feral cats. Bobcats can prey on animals as large as deer and will feed on hunter killed or road-killed deer. The breeding season can begin as early as January and run through March. Most female and male Bobcats do not breed until their second year. The average Bobcat litter is 2 - 3 kittens following a day gestation period.

Dens may be located in caves, rock piles, hollow logs or trees, or under fallen trees. Den sites may be used several years in a row. Bobcat kittens weigh 10 ounces at birth and may gain up to 0. Their eyes are closed at birth and remain closed for approximately 10 days. Kitten survival is linked to food abundance with years of plentiful food resulting in better kitten survival and years of poor food availability resulting in heavy mortality on Bobcat kittens. Weaning takes place at around 12 weeks of age and the kittens begin hunting with their mother at around 5 months of age.

Males do not assist with the raising of young, and except for the breeding season, lead predominantly solitary lives. Juvenile Bobcats leave their mother before she gives birth the following year. Some studies have shown the juveniles leaving the first fall after their birth while other studies indicate the juveniles leaving the following spring.

Mortality on Bobcats can be caused directly by other animals, by competition with other animals for food, diseases and parasites, and by man. Coyotes, hawks, and owls may prey on Bobcat kittens and coyotes may out compete Bobcats especially juveniles in years with low prey abundance. Rabies, tularemia, feline panleukopenia, leptospirosis, and various other diseases and parasites may cause mortality in Bobcats.

Bobcats routinely reach years of age and sometimes reach years old in the wild. He quickly slid into a rhythm, so much so that by the time he realized he might have found what he was looking for, he was already several clicks ahead. He riffled back through the slideshow—and there it was. At the bottom of a shadowy black-and-white snapshot stamped a.

The cat striding through the brush was about three to four feet long and maybe twenty to thirty pounds, too big to be a house cat or feral cat.

It had spots like a leopard, but its pointed ears and stubby tail were a dead giveaway. Jekyll had a bobcat. Moore printed off the photo, jumped up from his desk, and ran down the hallway and down the stairs to interrupt his colleagues in a meeting.

Like Moore, they were elated. Without an alpha hunter sitting atop the food chain, rodents, rabbits, and deer multiply relatively unchecked by nature. On Jekyll, white-tailed deer are especially prolific and are the subject of an ongoing study assessing their environmental impact.