Jerry Moore

most of them are domesticated cats that get abandoned or have you know been allowed to roam and then their their owners lost track of them so that's that's mostly what what it is and it and it's i want to distinguish when i'm talking about feral cats i'm not talking about um wild cat species like bobcats or mountain lions or things like that when i talk about feral cats i mean these kind of house cats gone wild

Now they do.

They do.

They have impacts on bird populations, rodent populations, which most of the time we approve of that.

But no, they have those skills.

You know, I don't know very much about bobcats as such.

I've seen them.

I've seen them hiking in the Sierra Nevada.

But they tend to be pretty isolated animals.

They don't really pose any kind of threat to humans the way that a mountain lion or something like that might.

But so many of us, especially here in California, but also in places like Colorado and elsewhere,

You know, we live in what we think of as suburbs or cities, but we're not that far away from either actual wild lands or kind of mixed strategy uses.

So, for example, one of the places where we see a lot of not just bobcats, but mountain lions and animals like that,

are on the edges of large golf courses that are adjacent to mountain systems, whether it's in California or in Colorado, because those golf courses have water and they have grass that attract deer that attract mountain lions.

The similarities are striking enough that you would have no problem recognizing them.

But beginning in the late 19th century, early 20th century, cat fanciers here in the United States and in Europe began to selectively breed cats so that you would have different varieties of cats.

Those differences, whether it's a Siamese or a Maine Coon,

are largely only visible in terms of fur and coloration.

They're not really noticeable in terms of their skeletal remains.

And so the basic form of the animals was not really selected for as much as their appearance was.