Adult Bobcat Captured In West Seattle Neighborhood

Fri., June 13, 1997

From Staff And Wire Reports

Animal control officers on Thursday netted what appears to be an adult bobcat in the West Seattle neighborhood.

“It’s definitely not a domestic house cat,” animal control spokesman Don Jordan told KIRO-TV.

But whether it’s 100 percent bobcat is still unclear, he said.

The sex of the animal also was undetermined.

Roger Binkley, a West Seattle resident, told KIRO the wild cat had been seen in the neighborhood for about a week.

The cat will be moved from a city shelter to the wildlife rescue center operated by the Protective Animal Welfare Society in Lynnwood.

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