Hungry kitty. Why?

[The Snark]

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I had a bobcat pull this stunt behind our train of 4 horses. Even pulling my horse out and charging it twice and it kept that crap up. Went on for around a half mile. Anyone got any ideas why they get so determined?

 

[Poonjab]

When you’re hungry enough you’ll take on prey items that you normally wouldn’t. Brother had this happen while in his tree stand. Bobcat put the stalk on him.
He tried to get the stupid thing to back off but it was too determined. Long story short, it picked the wrong prey item and wound up with an arrow in its lungs.

 

[The Snark]

When you’re hungry enough you’ll take on prey items that you normally wouldn’t.

But cats are scrapper smart. Back off and circle or range along side stuff. I get the feeling most of these incidents involve hormones and kittens, adding some derangement. Dropping out of ambush mode into the final kill scenario way too early. Weird weird.

 

[The Snark]

@Poonjab Come to think of it, I've seen tracks of a confrontation like that in the video. Cougar vs bear. Cougar tracks pranced and danced all over on top of the bears. But this was all of maybe 50 feet. Cougars will never target a bear in a knock down drag out. They innately know they would lose. So I took it to be a territorial thing, cougar has it's scented hunting grounds, and bear just wanders along following it's nose to the next berry patch.