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a house cat that read Sun Tzu and never came back inside
means a medium-sized wild cat of North America (Lynx rufus), tawny and spotted with a short, stubby tail that looks like it was cut off.
from The name is plain English and points straight at the tail: a "bob" has long meant something cut short or docked, the same word behind a bobbed haircut and a bobtail horse. So a bobcat is simply the cat with the bobbed tail — a 19th-century American coinage describing exactly what frontier folk saw flicking away into the brush.
- bob tail
- Its stubby tail earned the whole name
- deer killer
- Can take down prey eight times its size
- silent stalker
- Pounces from up to ten feet away
- everywhere
- Lives in all 48 contiguous US states
- loud talker
- Screams like a woman being murdered