Exotic Pets Bobcat

The practice of rearing exotic species of plants and animals that have appeared on the face of the earth is not an age old practice. Though there were a few exceptions even in those far of days with a few connoisseurs collecting plants and animals of far off lands to ad a certain mystique and exotic quality to their collection yet most among the masses stuck to rearing highly localized plants and animals. For example a person living on the monsoon plains wouldn’t fancy planting birch tress in his garden and similarly though a person inhabiting the Philippine island would have a pet passion ( pun intended) of keeping a crocodile as a pet, surely a person living in Delhi wouldn’t even wildly dream of doing such a thing.

The bobcat is one such example of an exotic species sometimes also known as Bay Lynx who is now facing a wide demand in the market of keeping exotic species as pets. It is a North American mammal belonging to the cat family ‘felidae’. In looks it owes them to the white snow leopard but shows a marked difference in characteristics when it comes to the speed of adaptability. The Bobcat is an adaptable predator that inhabits wooded areas, as well as semi-desert, urban edge, and swampland environments. It persists in much of its original range and populations are healthy. The healthy populations and the proportionate male and female ratios are responsible for it turning into such a hot favorite among the buyers and animal lovers. With a gray to brown coat, whiskered face, and black-tufted ears and it is about twice as large as the domestic cat. It has distinctive black bars on its forelegs and a black-tipped, stubby tail. Although the Bobcat has been subject to extensive hunting by humans, both for sport and fur, its population has been proven resilient. The elusive predator features in Native American mythology and the folklore of European settlers.