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Stoned Bobcat

1/25/2011

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Posted on September 19, 2010 
Stoned Bobcat
Every morning I amble to my garden to open and close the greenhouse and the hoops and to say hello to the garden.  I always know if someone has been in it, if someone left the gate open by taking compost up late or if a deer wandered in in the middle of the day – the proof is all there.  

So on this morning about 5 days ago I approached the greenhouse door and stopped short.  What is that?  I stared at a fairly dry catnip plant with all the tops bit off – it actually looked like some deer action.  But then I started to do my detective work – putting it all together.  I had recently cut a mass of nip to the ground to share with a friend and this was not me – I don’t just cut off the tops – so now I had freshly cut nip, a marauder and a mystery.  Next stop, tracks.  I looked down and immediately found what I was looking for and jumped off the trail.  

Cord and I love to figure this stuff out so I looked on the sandy trail going down through my garden and saw some more of what I wanted.  I went to get Cord and brought him.  We like to let the other one have a minute to figure it out before we tell all so I showed him the nip and then I showed him the track.  No claws.  Round balls – much bigger than Samuelson The Garden Cat and we had our culprit.  Cord said, “Bobcat.”  I said, “Bingo!”

Bobcat!  Big kitty is getting high.  Man – I wonder how that affects the hunting – does it become paranoid?  Ha!  I’m sure the freshly cut nip attracted him, it was no problem leaping our 7′ fence and he/she came in for a bite.  What fun!  I love this intruder.  Go for it – happy to help.

Later that day Samuelson The Garden Cat kept showing me that behind the greenhouse was scary – she would look, puff up and bolt, looking behind her as she scurried towards the house.  I knew it had probably sprayed and that's what she feared, but I dreamed he was just out of sight, up in some tree –  sleeping it off.  Only thing more fun would have been to bust him at it – with a camera!    Naughty Bobcat!  You be careful not to overdo it – no staggering into the street – happy dreams.

Bobcat will be added to the IPM list along with Lion and Bear in the garden.  Welcome.


Picture
Samuelson and a glorious Nepeta cataria ('Nip)
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    Penn Parmenter is a high altitude gardener, seedswoman and student of the earth.  She is married to Cord Parmenter - an awesome gardener, gorgeous man and a master blacksmith. Together they own and run a sustainable greenhouse design company, Smart Greenhouses LLC and Penn grows seed for her seed business, Miss Penn's Mountain Seeds.  She is a mother of three sons and an outdoorswoman.  Penn forages wild food, hunts big game, fishes, preserves, maintains a huge organic forest garden and occasionally makes dinner.  At home you can find her in her greenhouses as well as in the wilderness - nose to the ground, butt in the air, trying to identify Colorado natives.    

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