BOBCAT KILLS 13 OF 14 PET RABBITS ONLY ESCAPE ARTIST HOUDINI SURVIVES ATTACK.Byline: Paul O'Donoghue Staff Writer THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. - Houdini the rabbit escaped Wednesday - this time from a bobcat bobcat: see lynx. bobcat Bobtailed, long-legged North American cat (Lynx rufus) found in forests and deserts from southern Canada to southern Mexico. It is a close relative of the lynx and caracal. that killed the 13 other pet rabbits kept in a pen at a Chatham Court home. Investigating why her cat was acting strangely, homeowner Bridgette Clyne discovered the carcasses of her pets and the 40-pound bobcat still lurking nearby. ``I'm very happy it did not attack me,'' Clyne said. ``It could have attacked me because I was touching its food.'' Clyne, whose three children regularly play in the yard, called police and animal control officers. The bobcat fled as authorities arrived. Bruce Richards, the manager of the Agoura Animal Shelter "Dog Pound" redirects here. For the rap group, see Tha Dogg Pound. An animal shelter is a facility that houses homeless, lost or abandoned animals; primarily a large variety of dogs and cats. , said the bobcat would have found it easy to climb into the 6-foot-high pen, which has chicken wire walls and is open on top. ``We live in an area where bobcats are plentiful, as are coyotes and eagles,'' Richards said. While there have been no other reports of bobcats, Richards advised pet owners to enclose their animals in secure runs - with a top, bottom and sides. Because he was constantly escaping from the regular rabbin pen, Houdini is housed in a hutch hutch 1. standard cagelike accommodation for rabbits. 2. light, movable cabin for calves or pigs; to provide shelter and warmth for animals at pasture. hutch burn with a chicken wire top, which saved him. ``Houdini has eluded death here,'' said Clyne, laughing. ``I guess he was appropriately named.'' CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour Simi and Conejo edition) Thousand Oaks resident Bridgette Clyne tries to coax her rabbit Houdini out of his cage after a bobcat attack. (2 -- color -- Simi and Conejo edition only) Animal Control Officer Denise Rosen takes the remains of the Clyne family's dead rabbits The Dead Rabbits were a gang in New York City in the 1850s originally part of the Roach Guards. Internal dissension developed however, and at one of the Roach Guards' stormy meetings, someone threw a dead rabbit into the center of the room. . (3 -- color in Simi and Conejo edition) Houdini, named after the famed escape artist, was the only bunny to escape the bobcat's fatal attack. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News |
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