OMG the cute, it burns!
On the way in to work this morning I saw something rare: a bobcat kitten! It looked like a stocky, oversized kitten toddling along on fuzzy, banded little legs. You might have mistaken it for a domestic kitten, except it was several sizes too large to still look that kittenish, and it had a short, dark tail and enormous paws. I swear, I thought the cute was going to kill me dead.
It ran along the roadside and then leaped lightly over the bank to hide in the grass, with its mother no doubt. It was way too fast for me to try and get a picture, but this picture from google images is pretty much what it looked like:
Friends, this is one of the reasons I live in the country. You have to get very, very lucky to see something like this unless you are out here every day. I've lived my whole life in the country and never seen this before. I see little fawns all the time; and baby cottontails, and wild turkey chicks, and quail-udes, and ducklings, and baby pond turtles. I've seen adult bobcats and coyotes and even mountain lions. But for some reason you never see the predators' young. Maybe because there are just not as many of them.
I am thoroughly charmed. :)