I haven't seen any bobcats around me,but my son and I have seen a couple of cougars around here. One really tore up one of my coonhounds while we were hunting. took a chunk out of her back and side with a paw swipe and bit a hole right thru her skull. The Conservation Dept. says there not around, but we know diff. we're not the only ones that have seen them. There was a dead one found on RR. tracks in Fulton County, just the other side of Illinois River from where I live