significant cats captured on cameras throughout San Diego County

SAN DIEGO (information 8) – From bobcats to cougars – further and further San Diegans are reporting seeing big cats of their yards and neighborhoods.

news 8 has got a few videos of the cats roaming via distinctive areas within the county.

Chris Weixelman deploy a lure to capture raccoons, however in its place video photos captured three bobcats moving about his 4S Ranch backyard. "You hear about them within the enviornment, mountain lions, bobcats, but it surely isn't very regularly that you just predict to look them for your backyard. after I first saw the video, I had to cease and really examine it. Bobcats have that distinctive little curved short tail."

In an additional case, Tommy Fairfax ring's video captured another bobcat staring down his door and relocating his tail earlier than hopping over a fence down the hillside off Park Village street in Rancho Penasquitos.

wildlife biologist Roy Toft set up numerous cameras to capture the cats. "The cameras are right during this little draw – you see the riverbeds."

On Wednesday, information eight stated a few mountain lion mother along with her cubs close Mt. Woodson Golf path. "It makes feel that they're coming into the golf course. there's water. There are bunnies. where there are bunnies there are coyotes," spoke of Toft.

Toft additionally mentioned "the manner that you may inform Pumas apart are the markings on the whiskers and whisker sample." He also expressed his difficulty about large cats being trapped. Toft said he doesn't want the cougars to be trapped as a result of he's afraid once they're and are relocated, they could be killed.

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