How do you make a cat go woof?
Cover it in petrol and light it

Once back in the late 70's, I was a Sheriff's Deputy in Florida. We had gone on a simple call to the far east of the county out in the "sticks", even beyond the giggly weeds. We were going back to our police cruiser when we noticed a Bobcat enjoying a nice scratch on the roof of our car on the red and blue light bar. My partner was in a hurry to get back to our normal patrol area. He was going to try and bop the cat with a night stick....and he was the seasoned veteran. I had him hold up as I made my way around the car. I proceeded to withdrawal my can of mase and let the Bobcat have it. Much to my amazement the stream of chemical hit the bull's-eye on the rear of the cat. Well this cat jumped about 4 feet in the air and took off running. It sounded rather funny, not to mention looked real funny scooting along on the ground with it butt dragging the ground and pulling itself along with it's front feet at a rather rapid pace trying to get the burning chemical off it's a-hole. I thought my partner wouldn't be unable to drive from laughing so hard.

This cat was woofing something terrible....lmao!

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I think thats the funniest story I've ever heard

LMAO 

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Have you ever been around a pissed off Bobcat? They are far from helpless, they kill household pets, farm animals such as chickens. Attack children and permanently maimed these children for life if they don't in fact kill the children. They are notorious for rabies and I've had to shoot several in my days as a SHERIFF"S DEPUTY due to rabies and attacks on innocent CHILDREN and BABIES. I had to console a mother that had her baby killed by a bobcat that attacked the baby in it's stroller before the mother could beat it enough to make it let go of her baby. You can bet your bottom dollar the Bobcat in this incident was hunted down and killed. The mother was not only physically scared for life by this attack, but the emotional scars of her baby being killed will be with her for the rest of her life.

I will not comment any further on this, not wishing to start a pissing contest.  

Great story Romulus.  

If you think Bobcats are bad, you've never come face to face with a bear. It was either 1997 or 1998. My Dad's construction firm was doing bridge work in Wawa Ontario. For those of you who don't know, Wawa is a real out in the sticks town. This part of Ontario is notorious for brown bears. The locals and tourists leave scraps out for them which only makes matters worse.

Now my Dad had rented a two room office trailer for the jobsite. One day, one of the foremen was in one room and was hearing strange noises in the other. He opened the door and there stareing right at him was a great big brown bear. He  shut the door and ran for his life.   Apparently the bear had been looking for food and managed to break into the trailer. He was caught one day later. We have pictures of the bear somewhere.

Another big problem in the Wawa area is moose. Apparently come spring, they come out of the woods and lick the deicing salt off the roads. While there doing this, along comes Mr Mack Truck.  Apparently it's like hitting a brick wall, killing the moose and leaving the truck in a mess. After the moose has been hit local Indians (or Native Canadians for you sensitive types) take the carcass away from the road side and cook it up.  Apparently it's not as bad as it sounds.

LOL, good one OMAG....Somehow I don't think the mase would have had the desired repellent effect on that "Bobcat". The initial reason I sprayed the Wild Animal Bobcat was to repel the Bobcat w/o the need for being hit with a night stick or otherwise harmed. Hitting the "Bulls-eye" on the rear of the cat was purely an accident. It was just hilarious to watch it's reaction. It is doubtful the mase did any more harm to the cat than it would have to a human.

Meyekul, It is rare that Bobcats will kill humans. But at least in Florida in the late 1970's there had been several attacks on children and the one fatality. The authorities felt that all the attacks were due to one animal. All I know is after the one was killed, the attacks stopped. Normally Bobcats give humans a wide berth.

Iroquois, I have come up on several Black Bears while deer hunting in New England. Luckily they were good tempered and provided me a chance to watch these amazing animals up close and personal. Actually, one was rather curious about me and I got rather nervous when he got a bit closer than I felt comfortable with. I also had a run in with a rather ugly Bull Moose that I was worried I'd be forced to kill it in self defense. But it lost interest and trotted off into the woods.

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Maze won't do any permanet physical harm to the animal.

And now thats experienced this, it will avoid any contact with humans as it will fear us which is a good thing. Park rangers scare animals like bears to keep them scared of humans. Thats also why they tell you not to feed ducks at the park.