Animals

One morning a few of years ago I was setting at the kitchen table having my breakfast cup of coffee and working my crossword puzzle when out of the corner of my eye I saw a movement.  I raised and turned my head to see a bob-cat walking by in front of the sliding glass door within 6 feet of where I was setting.  I thought there is no one on earth that will believe me if I tell them this story so I had better take a picture of it.  Naturally I could not find the camera and after I did find it it was out of film.  By the time I got outside with the loaded camera the bob-cat was no where to be see.  Several days later I went to lunch with my neighbor Bill Ricker and related the story to him.   To my surprise Bill said he had seen the cat outside his family room a few days before. 

I forgot about the incident until several weeks later Bill and I went to lunch together again, when I drove into the carport at my home I saw the cat lying on the brick wall surrounding the turtle yard at my home.  After pointing out the cat to Bill I found the camera on the counter in the kitchen and snapped this picture of the cat happily resting on the wall.   I saw the cat again one time but was unable to get another photo.

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This bob-cat appears quite contented.  He remained on the wall seemingly unconcerned until I had finished taking several photographs of him.

Javelina or Collared Peccary