YIKES!!! I lived out in the country for 12 yrs and never saw one! You could hear them at night once in a while and a neighbor shot one close the the 4th of July, skinned it and threw it in the pit with the rest of the meat that they had for their annual BBQ. You can believe I didn't eat any of it! YUK!! You're not supposed to eat meat from a predator, are you?

It was probably the rabies that made him wander into human territory. Got a question, though. Did they catch that bobcat? You said they had traps set. How did they prove he had rabies if they didn't catch him? Or are they expecting to trap more bobcats?

You could probably scare off a bobcat with a good blast of pepper spray or the like. I don't know about a rabid one, though! Please be careful!!