Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site trwrb.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!feinberg
From: feinberg@trwrb.UUCP (Cheryl R. Feinberg)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Bobcats as Pets
Message-ID: <815@trwrb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Jun-84 21:35:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: trwrb.815
Posted: Thu Jun  7 21:35:42 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 10-Jun-84 00:33:35 EDT
Organization: TRW EDS, Redondo Beach, CA
Lines: 26




I don't know about Bobcats specifically, but I bought a book
about dogs, Understanding Your Dog, which was really good.

At any rate, one of the premises he sets forth is regarding
any cats, and especially big cats (wild ones).  Cats have
never been pack animals, therefore have much less respect
for authority than dogs and their cousins, the wolf.  Because
of this, a cat may be okay when young (i.e. a kitten), but
not as an adult.  Dogs, on the other hand, see us as the
"dominant" pack leader if we have trained them right, and
treat and respect us accordingly.  Part of the way dominance
is decided is by size, and since we are usually bigger than
our dogs, it is often easy to establish ourselves as the
leader.  This gets tougher with the larger and more dominant
breeds, especially for a woman.  

Enough - not really on the subject of Bobcats, but I thought
the part about pack animals vs. non-pack animals was
both interesting and enlightening regarding our domestic pets.


                             Cheryl R. Feinberg