{"id":537401,"date":"2026-03-15T05:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/537401\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T05:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:45:09","slug":"bobcat-encounter-shocks-nova-scotian-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/537401\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobcat encounter shocks Nova Scotian man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spencer Fraser was heading home after a day of fishing in Forchu, N.S., when he pulled over to use his cellphone, and noticed a bobcat near his truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI rolled down my window a little bit and I just [made noises],\u201d said Fraser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He definitely got the bobcat&#8217;s attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is never recommended to do this as bobcats are wild and unpredictable, and this encounter demonstrates just that. The sound could have been perceived as a threat or territorial challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fraser laughed it off in the video, but he says he wouldn\u2019t do it again.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Bobcat mark on truck\/Spencer Fraser\/Submitted to The Weather Network\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Bobcat_mark_on_truck_Spencer_Fraser_Submitted_to_The_Weather_Network.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bobcat mark on truck\/Spencer Fraser\/Submitted to The Weather Network<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bobcat mark on truck. (Spencer Fraser\/Submitted to The Weather Network)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt happened so quick, and I was not expecting it, but then about an hour later, I realized how bad that could have ended up,&#8221; said Fraser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The bobcat&#8217;s claws left scratch marks on his truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI seen that when it jumped. Its claws came out like it was going to attack me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fraser is counting himself lucky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bobcats are the most common wild cat in North America, but are elusive. Rarely seen, an encounter like Fraser&#8217;s is extremely rare. However, it is a cautionary tale of what can happen if you attempt to get too close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Photo in the thumbnail is not of the same animal mentioned in this story. It is courtesy of Laura Dann, taken in Gagetown, N.B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spencer Fraser was heading home after a day of fishing in Forchu, N.S., when he pulled over to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[84474,49,48,66,210118,323],"class_list":["post-537401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bobcat","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-spencer-fraser","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}