My brother who lives in Billings Montana saw this on Fox News:
Brett Hereford, was fishing for mackinaw (lake trout) on Flat Head Lake in Montana, on Sunday, Oct. 6, with his father, Bob, and mother, when they made an unusual discovery — a bobcat “thrashing around in the water."
The bobcat was quite a ways out (from shore) and they went over and looked at it. The Hereford's said the bobcat was shivering for quite a while and they were worried about it. They believed that if they didn't net it, it was going to drown. It looked really tired."
According to Bob’s post on Facebook, his son scooped up the bobcat in a fisherman’s net in order to save it from drowning. The pair then took it back to the shore, where they let it go in the wild.
Local people speculated the young bobcat was trying to get to an island or perhaps had been dropped in the water by a predatory eagle.
"That does happen," Brett's mom said. "You just don't know."
She said Hereford is a logger and has been around wildlife his whole life.
The news report added ... "He's been around wild animals being in the woods all his life, so he wouldn't have done this if he thought the bobcat didn't need help," she said.
Montana Fishermen catch live bobcat in fishing net on Flathead Lake
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