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Video: Bobcat Gets Up Close, Personal In Backyard Of Area Home Video: Bobcat Gets Up Close, Personal In Backyard Of Area Home
Video: Bobcat Gets Up Close, Personal In Backyard Of Area Home An area family got an unexpected visitor when a bobcat was caught on camera making the rounds. The bobcat was captured slinking through the backyard of the Putnam County home on Long Pond Road in Mahopac at approximately 7 p.m. on Friday, April 17, before trotting off into a neighbor’s yard. According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, “Bobcats are about twice the size of a domestic cat and usually smaller than the Canada lynx.  "Their fur is dense, short, and soft and is generally shorter and more reddish in the summer and longer and more gray in the wint…