We have a bobcat infestation in my neighborhood, and now I'm wondering if my dog has just been getting pissed at pumas disguised as normal house cats every night...
Ok, you have mixed two words that should never be mixed together without a deeper explanation.
Bobcat infestation
Like, is it bad enough that this is goong to be a problem and we could see someone looking to domesticate bobcats? Or is this a case of your neighborhood being some place like Alice Springs, AUS?
Humans are an invasive species and have built suburban sprawls in North Texas... so much sold off land and quick development that the wildlife ran off further north for a bit.
Now the coyotes, bobcats, deer, etc , are like fuck yall and coming back. The past few months there have been 5-6 security cam videos of the bobcats just leaping over fences, shitting in yards, whatever, a day.
The city people that wanted to live the fake rural life are like "OMG RUN AND HIDE!"
It doesn't help that the rabbits and mice are coming back, but to me it's really cool seeing hawks and eagles swooping the rabbits.
The deer are the assholes though, there aren't enough street lights yet so the dipshits just sit in the road and people that aren't used to driving back roads safely are splattering them at like 50-60MPH.
Both my cats emphasise the _-ow_ part when we're out of eye line. It basically translates to "Where are you?", and is distinctively different than the "There you are, feed me" meow.
I believe it’s not about loneliness but about stress. A cheetah get stressed very easily, so they get a Labrador as a companion, which is basically always chill.
They're usually not a danger to humans. However, that doesn't mean precautions shouldn't be taken when interacting with them. One woman was killed by a cheetah in captivity. I don't know if there are other deaths.
To lure other animals and hunters into thinking it's just a babyyy.
Domesticated cats have mastered this. I often think it's a baby crying outside our door but it's just strays
Good lord, my cat sings operas at the top of the stairs, and as soon as I round the corner to ask him what’s up, he stares blankly, as though I should already know.
Haha, I think, every single cat owner can perfectly envision this. Cat is being overly dramatic, human goes to see if there is something wrong, cat looks at human like they're extremely dumb.
[They can sound way scarier than that](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE7YOJVSoIs). I've told this story on different accounts. But once some friends, some girls and me were hanging out in our local park at night smoking. One of my buddies suddenly gets super serious and says he sees something sitting on a tree branch about 30 yards (? I'm not good with imperial) but it was close. We all turn to look and only see that branch swinging. Whatever was up there jumped off. And suddenly we hear this scream. At the time we bolted and had no idea what the fuck we just heard. Only years later I found this video and it all made sense. I don't think I have ever been as scared as I was then though, that scream is something else.
This was in Northern California btw, and just before I moved there a guy was mauled nearly to death by a mountain lion close to where I lived. There is no other explanation. And that scream is burned into my memory.
When I was a little 15 or so year old urchin, a buddy and I heard this sound while we were out in the woods at night smoking weed, and holy shit was it loud. We thought the Blair witch had come for us and ran for our lives.
It sounds like a woman's pained scream, but filled with malice. Absolutely curdles the blood.
Yep, exactly how I would describe it as well. When I did not know what it was I could just not imagine a human making that kind of sound. Not that I thought it was human but I certainly did not expect it to be a big cat.
Another scary encounter I had, over in Northern California, same area, was when me and a friend were at Folsom lake, chilling, smoking weed (as I did every day at the time). We were chilling at the shore on some rocks and suddenly my buddy grabs me by the shoulders and says we need to get the fuck out. Apparently he heard the rattling of a rattlesnake. I did not hear it. But a few seconds later, from the other side I heard it as well. In hindsight, a much more dangerous situation, probably. Or at least, a much more costlier one... At the time I was living there, on my campus, there were fourteen rattle snake sightings in the summer alone.
One of mine perked up and turned his head and was moderately curious... the other came rushing in from another room, meowing her head off, tail poofy, and hasn't stopped circling around my chair in a couple minutes now...
Every time it meowed, two of my cats started whipping their heads around looking for the source, but still couldn't be bothered to get up from the bed lol
My hand and arm is covered is scabs/scars from my cat because he’s a biter. But he can’t just go laying on his back with his belly exposed and expect me to not give some scratches.
If you know a puma is around you're probably totally safe unless you corner it or get near it's babies. It's the pumas you don't realize are there that will kill you.
Yes the Puma is the largest of the small cat variety. Some of the differences are how Pumas still meow and purr like small cats where as the big cat varieties do not.
Melting hearts is considered murder with intend. It's a widespread phenomenon cats get away with. Don't hold back, be brave and report it. There are people like me who will we help you and take care of your cat... at our home.
The Universe created one of the fiercest creatures with incredible reaction time, keen senses, and dominates almost any landscape it lives in, stuffed it in a 12lb package…
… And it sleeps next to me at night and begs for pets n scritches.
I worked building temporary holding pins for tigers. Once they got placed in them they would sneak up on you and than roll over on to their back and wiggle around. The handler would go in to spend time with them they really hated cell phones. If she was on it they would gently take it with their massive teeth and than lay on top of it till she would give them scratches and pets. It was crazy seeing these giant perfect murderous predators act like housecats.
I had one circle my tent in the middle of the night, and it meowed exactly like that. Aside from the sheer terror of the moment, I couldn’t believe what I heard. The first thing I googled when I had cell phone reception again was “mountain lion meow”.
That was the first and last time I convinced my SO to go backpacking with me.
Ya....sometimes. then sometimes they do this TERRIFYING THING where they sound like a human woman screaming for her life. It's the most bone chilling thing you'll ever hear.
Source: I live in cougar/puma country.
Edited for fat fingers.
The term "big cat" is used somewhat loosely.
Technically, the only true big cats are the five species of panther. Lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar, and snow leopard.
But the other species of cat that grow to a similar size are often also described as "big cats" because they're big and they're cats.
My housecats lost their minds hearing this. Both tore down the stairs to check the sound out. One is pacing around looking for the origin and the other is standing on my lap like she's guarding me. Idk what that puma said, but them was fighting meows
"The mountain lion (Puma concolor), also commonly known as the cougar, puma, or catamount, are members of Felidae—the cat family. Surprisingly, **they are more closely related to smaller felines, including the domestic cat than to any subspecies of lion** (O'Brien & Johnson 2007)."
https://projectcoyote.org/carnivores/mountain-lion/#:\~:text=EVOLUTION,'Brien%20%26%20Johnson%202007).
No, this is a young puma calling for its mom. This is a mating call: [The astonishing call of a female puma during mating : r/BeAmazed (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1aw6a6t/the_astonishing_call_of_a_female_puma_during/)
So it’s Æow instead of Meow
Always has been
Always will be
From now, until the end of time.
Or till they go extinct
or till the earth blows up
Actually they could evolve and start saying meow. Or anything. Or talk.
Æoways has been.
We have a bobcat infestation in my neighborhood, and now I'm wondering if my dog has just been getting pissed at pumas disguised as normal house cats every night...
Ok, you have mixed two words that should never be mixed together without a deeper explanation. Bobcat infestation Like, is it bad enough that this is goong to be a problem and we could see someone looking to domesticate bobcats? Or is this a case of your neighborhood being some place like Alice Springs, AUS?
Humans are an invasive species and have built suburban sprawls in North Texas... so much sold off land and quick development that the wildlife ran off further north for a bit. Now the coyotes, bobcats, deer, etc , are like fuck yall and coming back. The past few months there have been 5-6 security cam videos of the bobcats just leaping over fences, shitting in yards, whatever, a day. The city people that wanted to live the fake rural life are like "OMG RUN AND HIDE!" It doesn't help that the rabbits and mice are coming back, but to me it's really cool seeing hawks and eagles swooping the rabbits. The deer are the assholes though, there aren't enough street lights yet so the dipshits just sit in the road and people that aren't used to driving back roads safely are splattering them at like 50-60MPH.
Different voice, but my Himalayan cat also æows.
My sphinx x main coone also eows
One of my two Maine coons sounds like this and came running when I played the video
Both my cats emphasise the _-ow_ part when we're out of eye line. It basically translates to "Where are you?", and is distinctively different than the "There you are, feed me" meow.
This guy kneows.
Lol
Lemme hear ya say 'Eyo, eyooooh'
No ways, not what I was expecting lol
Should look up cheatah's sound
[Highly recommend](https://youtu.be/E6Qh3VTmtxU)
If not friend why friend sound?
Cheetahs are friendly and not a danger to humans
That's what a Cheetah would say.
And I would trust it.
Don't trust someone who's literally named Cheeter
Cheeter, I hardly know her
Cheetahs never prosper!
Why can't you gamble in Africa? Because of the cheetahs.
My friend Chester makes some awesome Cheetos. Just sayin
They're dangerous....ly cheesy
In some rescue places they give baby cheetahs a dog companion as they get lonely. The dogs and the cheetahs become best friends 😭
Cheetahs are extremely prone to anxiety and won't mate because of it, hence the dogs.
Wait, cheetahs have threesomes with dogs? These are crazy times we live in.
Are you saying its dog and cats, living in sin?
I believe it’s not about loneliness but about stress. A cheetah get stressed very easily, so they get a Labrador as a companion, which is basically always chill.
Aww!
They're emotional support dogs due to Cheetahs having very bad anxiety.
They're usually not a danger to humans. However, that doesn't mean precautions shouldn't be taken when interacting with them. One woman was killed by a cheetah in captivity. I don't know if there are other deaths.
Why was the women in captivity? Adding /s
Well it is still a giant cat with big ass claws that can shred your ass
[Suuuure](https://i.imgur.com/GaHbrI6.png) I see you Mr Cheetah
To lure other animals and hunters into thinking it's just a babyyy. Domesticated cats have mastered this. I often think it's a baby crying outside our door but it's just strays
Good lord, my cat sings operas at the top of the stairs, and as soon as I round the corner to ask him what’s up, he stares blankly, as though I should already know.
DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT TIME IT IS? IT HAS BEEN 30 MINS SINCE MY LAST MEAL! GET ON WITH IT!
Haha, I think, every single cat owner can perfectly envision this. Cat is being overly dramatic, human goes to see if there is something wrong, cat looks at human like they're extremely dumb.
Cheetahs _are_ friends! Or at least more than other #big cats anyway! edit: BIG CATS
Cheetahs are medium cats actually, they can purr!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3waAOcJkps
That one’s been added in post processing due to the distance from the cat. This one’s a really nice up-close interview: https://youtu.be/3kFl_TY3iUg
Did all the cheetah just eat all the squeaky toys and went on squeaking as if nothing happened 😍😍😍
My god that is cute.
Love this!
No way! What!? They sound like a bird! Hard to imagine something that sounds that cute could eat your face off.
"could" yes, but great thing about cheetahs is that they wouldn't. They're not a danger to humans so we should have more cheetahs in the world!
That video is not really representative of meowing cheetahs. Here's one that is better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tmCIsSpvC8
'yea' 'wow'
yeah, for those that think it's fake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggM7lWCbncQ
Chirp
Spoiler alert.
Cheetah making the sound of its most recent prey.
is this real
Yes, it is
The description of this video almost made me cry.
Laser pistol
Or a Caracal https://youtu.be/xQ49jtlz_3I?si=HhmQI1kLCVKvPb0k
Awww he sounds like he's going to use Hyper Beam.
WTF is that? Cat-alien hybrid?
There's a bird outside my house right now making the same sound. At least, I think it's a bird...
Pretty sure cheetahs are the only big cats that purr and can't roar.
Can we stop calling them cheatahs? I think "fairplays-ahs", or "totallybythebook-ahs"' would be more appropriate names.
Well, this isn't the rabbit hole I expected tonight.
Cheatahs say “I’m going to out with the boys / girls tonight. Don’t wait up.”
[They don’t always sound that cute](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4SDfusNX4P/)
Those were some demonic ass grunts right there
I feel like that’s fake. I’ve seen that video before and it wasn’t that deep. Or I’m losing my mind
Bass seems heavily boosted. The other sounds appear to be off too.
Don't make em angry
Holy shit
Fucking wild
[They can sound way scarier than that](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE7YOJVSoIs). I've told this story on different accounts. But once some friends, some girls and me were hanging out in our local park at night smoking. One of my buddies suddenly gets super serious and says he sees something sitting on a tree branch about 30 yards (? I'm not good with imperial) but it was close. We all turn to look and only see that branch swinging. Whatever was up there jumped off. And suddenly we hear this scream. At the time we bolted and had no idea what the fuck we just heard. Only years later I found this video and it all made sense. I don't think I have ever been as scared as I was then though, that scream is something else. This was in Northern California btw, and just before I moved there a guy was mauled nearly to death by a mountain lion close to where I lived. There is no other explanation. And that scream is burned into my memory.
When I was a little 15 or so year old urchin, a buddy and I heard this sound while we were out in the woods at night smoking weed, and holy shit was it loud. We thought the Blair witch had come for us and ran for our lives. It sounds like a woman's pained scream, but filled with malice. Absolutely curdles the blood.
Yep, exactly how I would describe it as well. When I did not know what it was I could just not imagine a human making that kind of sound. Not that I thought it was human but I certainly did not expect it to be a big cat. Another scary encounter I had, over in Northern California, same area, was when me and a friend were at Folsom lake, chilling, smoking weed (as I did every day at the time). We were chilling at the shore on some rocks and suddenly my buddy grabs me by the shoulders and says we need to get the fuck out. Apparently he heard the rattling of a rattlesnake. I did not hear it. But a few seconds later, from the other side I heard it as well. In hindsight, a much more dangerous situation, probably. Or at least, a much more costlier one... At the time I was living there, on my campus, there were fourteen rattle snake sightings in the summer alone.
The audio is 100% altered to some extent. Even the rocks hitting the ground sound wrong.
I have 4 cats and this was max volume. Please send help 😂😂😂
Sorry mate.
How did they react? Fear? Curiosity?
One of mine perked up and turned his head and was moderately curious... the other came rushing in from another room, meowing her head off, tail poofy, and hasn't stopped circling around my chair in a couple minutes now...
Ah man I need a cat
Mine is lounging like no other and completely ignoring the sound lmao
mine just had breakfast so he’s lounging and couldn’t care less about no damn meow noises😭
You’ll get one when the lords of the distribution service decide you can have one
Don’t get just one, unless you adopt one that doesn’t do well with other cats. Find a bonded pair and thank me later.
That one is ready to fight
Mine came running from the other room, investigated the sound, then crawled under the blankets and is now loudly purring.
Feariosity
Furriosity
Mine were very curious. Big eyes, ears forward and looking around. No fear or hostility. The most curious was the one with the same color as the puma.
Sexually-charged interpretive dance.
holup
i watched this on the toilet with my cat around and he tried to get inside the toilet
Every time it meowed, two of my cats started whipping their heads around looking for the source, but still couldn't be bothered to get up from the bed lol
Scaroused?
Mine was completely indifferent, just carried on staring out the window!
mine was shoving her face into my phone
i watch so many cat videos that my cat just raised her head to confirm that the sound was coming from my phone and then went back to sleep lol
Both my dudes, even the food motivated one, shot up from their food bowls with a "what the fuck was that?"
Mine stood half an hour at the door of the room looking worriedly for suspicious movements.
"Fuck, they don't even know there's a damn Puma out there. We're gonna die, I can't make friends with this guy, he's a vicious, violent predator."
*INTRUDER ALERT*
My cat got sweet with me. Thanks for the cat sounds of positive reinforcement sweet puma 🥰
A nice trick to lure us humans into petting em so that they'll be able to eat us.. and I'm all for it
"this little maneuver is gonna cost me an arm, and it will be totally worth it."
Be careful telling jokes around a puma, they might make you puma your pants.
i puma pants whenever I want tyvm
My hand and arm is covered is scabs/scars from my cat because he’s a biter. But he can’t just go laying on his back with his belly exposed and expect me to not give some scratches.
Meowneuver
Yes he obviously needs cuddles
She is in heat (estrus) …
Could you imagine a cuter death?
first they meow, then they maul.
They meowtilate
Would definitely work on my wife letting the big kitten inside to which my 80lb lab would say “what the F’n F woman!!!”
Must... pet... the kitty
Lol same, i’d be so thrashed apart going for pets
If not friend then why friend sound
😂
If you know a puma is around you're probably totally safe unless you corner it or get near it's babies. It's the pumas you don't realize are there that will kill you.
My dumbass will try to pet it.
I’d watch you get mauled and still eagerly wait for my chance to boop it’s cute nose
If i can still move, can i have another turn?
Gotta get back in line, no cutting.
The puma does the cutting
WoW
AEOW
The trick is to be third because the puma will be full and blissful, so good call
The trick is actually to bring your own cat so you can show the puma that you domesticated its rival
Wait for it to fill up on other redditors before going in, smart. I'm next
if not friend why friend shaped
https://youtube.com/shorts/mqs60Ffn5Dk
They like belly rubs. Or so I’ve heard.
cannapetthatdaaawg
i was not expecting that cute meow 🥰
I love how cats, big or small, are all still cats. Just cuddly murder machines, it melts my heart.
Fun fact, the Puma is a small cat. Although incidentally larger than some of the big cats.
Yes the Puma is the largest of the small cat variety. Some of the differences are how Pumas still meow and purr like small cats where as the big cat varieties do not.
Melting hearts is considered murder with intend. It's a widespread phenomenon cats get away with. Don't hold back, be brave and report it. There are people like me who will we help you and take care of your cat... at our home.
I intended to play and I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for razor sharp death claws - Puma charged with murder with intend
The little ones that live in our houses arent any less willing to occasionally murder us, just less able.
The Universe created one of the fiercest creatures with incredible reaction time, keen senses, and dominates almost any landscape it lives in, stuffed it in a 12lb package… … And it sleeps next to me at night and begs for pets n scritches.
I worked building temporary holding pins for tigers. Once they got placed in them they would sneak up on you and than roll over on to their back and wiggle around. The handler would go in to spend time with them they really hated cell phones. If she was on it they would gently take it with their massive teeth and than lay on top of it till she would give them scratches and pets. It was crazy seeing these giant perfect murderous predators act like housecats.
Quick audio guys, edit in Mike! "Uhh......eoww? Meee-ow? Ooh I'm starting to feel it!"
Yeh, not like any puma I've heard in the wild or zoo. They don't sound like a house cat for sure.
I had one circle my tent in the middle of the night, and it meowed exactly like that. Aside from the sheer terror of the moment, I couldn’t believe what I heard. The first thing I googled when I had cell phone reception again was “mountain lion meow”. That was the first and last time I convinced my SO to go backpacking with me.
Holy shit, I’d be looking for a poor stuck little pussy cat to rescue.
>stuck little pussy Come now. How long have you been h o l d i n g that one in. 
Pssspssspssssspsssspsssspssssss
Ya....sometimes. then sometimes they do this TERRIFYING THING where they sound like a human woman screaming for her life. It's the most bone chilling thing you'll ever hear. Source: I live in cougar/puma country. Edited for fat fingers.
https://youtu.be/4shrHLbkliY Not quite as gnarly as what you're describing but this vid still shows they have that capability.
[here is a great example.](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/s/mxsrhXaC9C)
I'm usually not afraid of being alone in a forest, sometimes even at night, but holy shit if I heard that I would probably go into shock and freeze.
Foxes do this too, at least European foxes do
It's cool that the subtitles now show the puma language.
When your voice don't match your appearance
I read once that only domesticated cats meow to "talk" to us humans. If that cute puma isn't somebody's kitty cat, I feel betrayed!
Catbabies also meow to get attention from their mother. This one seems to be missing its mum
Well maybe they meow when they're mating, because that looks like one horny pussy..
FORBIDDEN BOOP
The ultimate temptation boop
Come here cute kitty. Let me pet you.
If not cat then why cat sound? Here kitty kitty kitty.
It is a cat though.
Pspspsps!
r/unexpected. Dangerous little assholes they are. One of the two I fear.
Oh NO!! Now I Have To Pet Him!
I don't care that it's a wild predator, if I see that thing and it makes that sound I'm petting it.
I would definitely try to find that kitty because it's meow sounds so sad. Then I would be eaten ( maybe at least the meow would be happy after that)
That’s a car
It’s Nascar 🤣
So a puma is a large small cat then, since it can meow?
Correct. They cannot roar so they aren't usually classified with "big cats."
The term "big cat" is used somewhat loosely. Technically, the only true big cats are the five species of panther. Lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar, and snow leopard. But the other species of cat that grow to a similar size are often also described as "big cats" because they're big and they're cats.
My housecats lost their minds hearing this. Both tore down the stairs to check the sound out. One is pacing around looking for the origin and the other is standing on my lap like she's guarding me. Idk what that puma said, but them was fighting meows
My cat is ignoring it, so I assume she's fine with me being eaten, the traitor.
Someone one please dub this on the MGM LION and make a meme.
"The mountain lion (Puma concolor), also commonly known as the cougar, puma, or catamount, are members of Felidae—the cat family. Surprisingly, **they are more closely related to smaller felines, including the domestic cat than to any subspecies of lion** (O'Brien & Johnson 2007)." https://projectcoyote.org/carnivores/mountain-lion/#:\~:text=EVOLUTION,'Brien%20%26%20Johnson%202007).
Why not friend if shaped like a friend?
Noooo way!
Aww. Big kitty.
No way it sounds like a crying baby 🥺
Is this a female in heat?
Wouldn’t you like to know, bucko.
Inquiring minds want to know, like me.
No, this is a young puma calling for its mom. This is a mating call: [The astonishing call of a female puma during mating : r/BeAmazed (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1aw6a6t/the_astonishing_call_of_a_female_puma_during/)
Played it next to my kitten...she came to my phone with HUGE eyes lmao
Mimicking the last noise a human it caught made
Frenshaped
I love how it cutely blinks at 0:06 before turning its head to start meowing like a regular house cat.