CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – A 22News viewer despatched a video of a bobcat going by their entrance door in Chicopee.

22News viewer Jessica Hawthorne noticed a bobcat on her door on Doverbrook Highway in Chicopee. Populations of bobcats differ throughout the state, with the very best density in central and western Massachusetts, decrease density within the northeast, and uncommon to absent within the southeast, in accordance with massaudubon.org.

They’re shy creatures which might be most lively at evening and like wild habitats, so it’s unusual to see one. They’re much bigger than a home cat, and an grownup bobcat can measure from 28 to 47 inches lengthy and weigh from 15 to 35 kilos, the lads being bigger than the ladies.

As with all wildlife, don’t try to strategy one, primarily when they’re younger. Bobcats are identified to kill livestock or unsupervised small pets as nicely.

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