re: Would you rather fight off a bobcat or a wolf?

I'd take my chances with the wolf.

The bobcat has more weapons and would probably be more resolute and harder to get a good hold onto in the fight.

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If a 15 year old me will jump out of the boat onto a 6ft alligator's back, 30 year old me has no issue with fighting something that isn't basically a fricking dinosaur.

No question about it, bobcat. You will probably come out of it scratched up but nothing serious. Ever encountered a snarling domestic dog that looks like it wants to rip out your throat? Now imagine that dog being a wild wolf that kills for a living.
Bobcats prey mostly on rabbits, birds, rodents etc., wolves take down deer, and other larger animals. A bobcat’s claws wont kill you but a wolf’s strength and teeth will. The better question would be mountain lion or wolf, but a 20 or 30 lb bobcat dont compare to an adult wolf.

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f a 15 year old me will jump out of the boat onto a 6ft alligator's back, 30 year old me has no issue with fighting something that isn't basically a fricking dinosaur.

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This is what you do with your spare time? Go onto websites and lie?

You seriously claiming that you wrestled an alligator and you could kill a wolf with your bare hands? Give me a fricking break.

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He got an open palm hit to the base of his skull and got to learn what the ceiling of the porch felt like... Repeatedly.

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At 18 months old most dogs are all but mature. So you have a dog that weighs 60 lbs more than a mature male Timberwolf. So at least 200 lbs.

Let’s be conservative and say at 18 months he was only 75% of where he is now.

So you took a 150 lb animal and threw it up to your porch ceiling several times?

You also wrestled an alligator?

Is this right after you took down a lion with a rear naked choke hold?

I’d stop lying. The holes in your stories are showing.

One ranking of the top 30 most dangerous animals in North America


2. Wolverine

Despite weighing just 20 to 50 pounds, wolverines have been known to go after deer and even caribou if they're hungry enough. Mostly, they don't have to, but their voracious appetite means they can devour a smorgasbord of smaller critters (rabbits, squirrels, voles, beavers, etc) in a short period, using sharp, dagger-like claws and a powerful bite with a mouth that includes special molars for crushing bone.

3. Mountain Lion

These remarkable hunters stalk prey so quietly that often an animal doesn't know it's a target until there's a 150-pound cat on its back. Lions kill by striking from the rear, jumping onto an animal's back and breaking its neck by biting into the base of the skull. These cats are prodigious jumpers, able to leap as high as 15 feet and as far as 40 feet, and they run fast too — capable of reaching 50 miles-per-hour at a sprint.


5. Grey Wolf

Wolves are endurance athletes, capable of covering dozens of miles in a day, with extreme cold tolerance (they can comfortably sleep, exposed, in temperatures as low as -40). While they prefer to hunt smaller, weaker prey, wolves can and often do take on elk, moose, and even bison. A grey wolf's bite strength is 1,500 pounds-per-square-inch—about twice the force of a German shepherd's jaws.


15. Coyote

Smaller than a wolf but larger than most dogs, the coyote is an opportunist with a ruthless streak. They can eat just about anything, including rotten meat and bones. In 2009, a pack of coyotes in Canada killed an adult human (a female hiker) for the first time in recorded history.


16. Bobcat aka Lynx

The bobcat (aka lynx) is an extremely elusive animal, which explains how they manage to persist in such a vast territory, including huge sections of the northeast in close proximity to population centers. Bobcats are loners that can go for long periods without eating, though given the chance, they'll dine on whatever's around. Earlier this year, a guy in Florida photographed one leaving the beach with a shark in its mouth.

Bobcat.

A good swat with a club and they frick off.

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So you took a 150 lb animal and threw it up to your porch ceiling several times? You also wrestled an alligator? Is this right after you took down a lion with a rear naked choke hold?

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Bobcat has more weapons.

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Yeah but none of them will kill you

I am not offering my left hand to a wolf, he would drag my big arse right where he wants me.

I grabbed a live deer that was damn near dead once...it whipped my arse. That wolf takes that same deer down in 11 seconds.

The bobcat needs to wait until it starts rotting to even eat the insides.

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This is exactly what happened to me. It hit my shoulder and it felt more like someone trying to grab and scare you than anything that could kill you. It scared me because I had no idea it was there, but it was so scared after hitting me and figuring out I wasn’t a turkey, it was gone before I could turn around and do anything.

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A 3.5" magnum will make a mess out of a bobcat at close range.

Or so I have heard.