Bobcat Mom And Kitten Come Hang Out In A Person's Backyard: Viral Twitter Thread

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Jun 14, 2022 11:00 AM EDT

If there is one thing that we think we can predict about our future, it's that we will meet our doom by trying to pet something that we shouldn't. Animals are too cute, man! They're irresistible! Especially cats and kittens! If we had been in the position of the twitter user in this thread - if a bobcat momma and kitten showed up randomly in our backyard, we would have probably gone out and tried to pet them already, and that would have been it for us. 

Bobcats are sooo underrated in our opinions. They are adorable. If you need any proof of that, just check out this story about a dehydrated bobcat kitten who got rescued and grew into a beauty, or this other story about an abandoned bobcat kitten who got mistaken as a house cat, got rescued, and started acting like one anyway, or this other-other story about the awwdorable adventures of rehabilitating a bobcat. Or just read this thread. We promise, you'll have a whole new appreciation for bobcats by the end of it. 

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    via @RobbinsTmr1106

    Like, how can anyone possibly resist going out there and trying to pet these cuties? Just lookat them playing around! They look like regular house kitties, just ever so slightly larger and pointier. Self-preservation instinct? We have never heard of such a thing. Must. pet. cat.

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    via @RobbinsTmr1106

    For days. These bobcats showed up on this property for days. Talk about an adorable yet mildly terrifying thing to wake up to. How in the world you would leave the house to throw the trash out with the two of them there is beyond us. Clearly, if you tried to do that, the instinct to pet would overwhelm you.

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    Font - Cheryldee Huddleston @CheryldeeHuddle FIGHT Replying to @RobbinsTmr1106 Mamma looks pretty thin. Probably from nursing. Glad they could get water! It's been hot here in Carmel Valley CA too! 8:30 PM - Jun 11, 2022 - Twitter Web App
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    Font - ... Tracie Robbins @RobbinsTmr1106 Replying to @CheryldeeHuddle Yes! I watched her nursing the kitten and also sharing a field mouse with it. 8:33 PM - Jun 11, 2022- Twitter for iPad
    via @RobbinsTmr1106
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    Rectangle - Asuran @AsuranMMA Replying to @RobbinsTmr1106 Not sure they are bobcat.. Looks like lynx or some other cat. 8:31 PM - Jun 11, 2022 - Twitter for Android :
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    Font - ... Tracie Robbins @RobbinsTmr1106 Replying to @Asuran MMA Definitely bobcat, we see them off and on every year. But they do look lynx-like! 8:34 PM - Jun 11, 2022 - Twitter for iPad
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    Font - ... Tracie Robbins @RobbinsTmr1106 Replying to @E_Grygo_FinTech This is first day we've seen the kitten, but mama has been getting a drink for several days. They are hanging around beyond the railing, in the wash below 8:41 PM Jun 11, 2022. Twitter for iPad
    via @RobbinsTmr1106
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    Rectangle - ... happybruno @apngma Replying to @RobbinsTmr1106 Precious! I'm jealous. We have a groundhogs. They're cute and good neighbors. Just not as majestic as your visitors. They're kind of dumpy. 8:56 PM - Jun 11, 2022. Twitter for Android
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    Font - ... Tracie Robbins @RobbinsTmr1106 Replying to @apngma I've always had a thing for groundhogs, haha! The bobcats are fun to watch, but we give them lots of space, especially with a kitten. 9:02 PM - Jun 11, 2022 - Twitter for iPad
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    Font - Nariman Naderi @NaderiNariman Replying to @RobbinsTmr1106 Nice you raise them yourself or they just came hanging around? 10:40 PM - Jun 11, 2022 - Twitter for iPhone
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    Font - Tracie Robbins @RobbinsTmr1106 Replying to @NaderiNariman They are free and wild, just come around for the birdbath water and plentiful field mice, lizards and cottontails in the area. 10:44 PM - Jun 11, 2022. Twitter for iPad
    via @RobbinsTmr1106
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    Font - ... Cheryl @CherylFawn Replying to @RobbinsTmr1106 and @LongTimeHistory Uhm, isn't that what the fence is to prevent? I'd flip shit living there. What other critters do you get? 1:38 AM - Jun 12, 2022. Twitter for iPhone
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    Font - Tracie Robbins @RobbinsTmr1106 Replying to @CherylFawn and @LongTimeHistory The fence keeps out the javelinas. The bobcats go right through it or hop over the rails! We have birds, snakes, coyotes, lizards, cotton tails, mice, rock squirrels, badgers, pack rats..... 1:45 AM - Jun 12, 2022 Twitter for iPad
    via @RobbinsTmr1106
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    Human body - tastewart @tastewart &$!#% Replying to @RobbinsTmr1106 and @Gr8fulchik2 Wow! That is a BIG cat! Did they jump the fence? 1:51 AM - Jun 12, 2022 Twitter for iPhone ...
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    Font - ... Tracie Robbins @RobbinsTmr1106 Replying to @tastewart and @Gr8fulchik2 Mama jumps the fence easily, kitten goes through the rails 1:52 AM - Jun 12, 2022. Twitter for iPad
    via @RobbinsTmr1106

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