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Bobcat suspected in attack on Church Hill horse
According to the Rogersville Review, a bobcat is suspected in an attack on a horse over the weekend.
The horse's owner reported it injured by another animal Saturday night -- and in the same area where someone else reported seeing a bobcat attack a deer earlier in the day.
According to a Hawkins County Sheriffs Office report, the incident occurred at183 Sensabaugh Hollow Road. The horse reportedly had several deep cuts around its head and neck. Bite marks were also found on the horse's head "one of which appeared to have pierced the animal's skull," the report notes.
The report does not specify what type of animal was responsible for the injuries. However, it does note that earlier in the day a deputy received a report of a large bobcat taking down a white-tail deer less than two-tenths of a mile from the attack on the horse.
"Bobcats are native to all of Tennessee and are more common than people realize. The just are not see much," according to Steve Bennett of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
He said it would be a "rare event" for a bobcat to attack a large animal, such as a horse.
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People should leave bobcats alone. They eat deer and deer bring ticks and lyme disease. Bobcats reduce the incidence of lyme disease.
The North America record for a bobcat was a male that weighed 52-pounds that was killed in February 2009 so if this one weighed 80 pounds that`s quite a kill.
This is no suprise to me. We live on the motor mile, and we have bobcats behind us in the woods...they are not hard to identify by their cry.
We also have a Florida panther in the same woods..more than one person has seen it, and I am sure that it or they, maybe, is feeding on the deer in the woods, along with the wild turkey that live in there. Actually, the wildlife agency of Tennessee brought 5 Florida panthers to Roan Mountain about 4 years ago, and turned them out. We have good friends who wittnessed the arrival and freeing of these panthers. I am sure that they multiplied there, and people there have had cattle and horses and dogs and cats killed by them. I thought when I read this article that maybe it was a panther. We think that the drought has made them come down from the Roan in the last three years to look for food. No one is going to relocate any of these animals anywhere. The wildlife people brought the coyotes back to this area about 21 years ago and turned them out just a few miles over the hill from us. They are here in profusion now also...and they also eat calves, dogs, cats, and whatever else they can trap. These programs are funded by the tax payers, and then we are left to spend more money to fight the results of the infestation of these animals.
Nope but I had no doubt it would be killed...I'm sure they had to check it for rabies...4 dogs??? Really? Well that was pretty much next door to my house...Like Kitty said, they could have trapped it and relocated it to the woods but I know they couldn't do that without checking for rabies.
yep they'll shoot it...suspected rabies...they use that excuse to kill everything. WHen a kid walks through the woods where there are WILD ANIMALS and gets attacked, they shoot the animal for just ya know hanging out in its house. I will never understand that.
Well, you got your "rare event" ... will anybody try trapping the bobcat to relocate it or are there just gonna be a bunch of shoot-em-up "hunters" running amok in the area there?