Bobcats Now Patrolling Belle Meade Neighborhoods

Bobcats Now Patrolling Belle Meade Neighborhoods

Bobcats are not unusual in Tennessee, but they are seldom seen in Belle Meade.

That’s why home surveillance of the predatory cat walking across a backyard this weekend is so unusual.

It happened just before dark Saturday evening. The video shows a bobcat, believed to be less than a year old, sauntering across the pool deck of a home.

The house is next door to Shane Tallant, a young father with 2-year-old twins.

“It makes me nervous that we could be out in the yard playing and a bobcat comes across the yard,” explained Tallent.

Tallant also says there have been rumblings of a bobcat in the upscale neighborhood, but no one had seen it until Saturday.

“If you are walking in the yard it would scare anyone, and if you are fearful it may be fearful of you and attack,” Tallent said.

According to National Geographic, bobcats are (continue reading at WKRN)

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