We Share Our Home With Two Bobcats | BEAST BUDDIES - YouTube

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they have very very strong jaws and
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sometimes they'll bite you just a little
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bit harder than what our tender arms are
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used to
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hello we are making Melissa and we are
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the owners of two Bob camp owning owning
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Bobcats you know that you're going to
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have bruises and you know you're gonna
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have scratches and you're gonna have
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little bites they have never not hurt us
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in a way out of anger
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it's just when they really start playing
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have a couple of little broken bones in
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the hands and lots of scabs lots of
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scams when I was a kid I found a bobcat
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rustling around in some hay in a barn
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and I didn't know any better I just
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thought it was a kitten so I scooped it
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up I took it inside and we were really
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close so I remembered that as a kid and
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thought if there was ever a point in
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time as an adult where we could try
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again with one I really want to give it
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a shot it's supposed to be just one home
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but we ended up having to
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so we got gypsy about a year ago in
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January of 2018
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Monaco about two months later and we've
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had them now for what almost about six
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months together and they're learning to
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get along really well and each month it
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gets a little bit better what Bobcat see
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is a fresh mix of chicken steak
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we tried hamburger and everyone suggests
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hamburger but neither wouldn't like it
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shrimp salmon expensive taste pork and
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it's all good stuff and I always go for
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the heavier fat's cuts of meat and we
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feed them once a day in the morning I
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also supplement on top and it includes
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bone marrow feathers for teeth just
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anything and everything that they would
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ingest in the wild so hopefully they're
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not missing they also get organs you
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know I'll put some yep some animal
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organs in the food
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as far as damage to the house goes you
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see our couches in great condition they
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pee in the toilet sometimes in the sink
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sometimes in the snake yes come to find
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out that it's actually a innate in them
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because they're wild animals and they
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don't want their scent to be left
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because they like to stay elusive they
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like to pee in streams and ponds and all
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that stuff and so in the house as soon
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as they find the toilet that's the
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preferred place to go to the bathroom
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because it hides their scent which is so
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cool
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they love hard and they play hard we've
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always been the type of people that have
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never really taken the normal path so it
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was just a natural interest to us first
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and foremost will this work have to
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really work for their respect but once
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you get it there's a really tight bond
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that you just can't get with any other
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kind of animal
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I mean we've owned dogs they've owned
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cats with little lizards we notice every
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kind of animal and I've we've never
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owned one that when we walk in the door
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from even being gone for two hours they
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are so excited to see you and then
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they're just gypsies all up in me and
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jumping on me and Monaco's wanting us to
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play with her they just we are their
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life absolutely and in captivity they
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live between 20 and 30 years so this is
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a very long-term commitment we're very
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prepared for that we're gonna be
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cruising around and our walkers and our
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canes and telling everybody comes in
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