newfy lynx a different sub-species

Like someone else already said, the only way to kill lynx down here is if you are a trapper. In the meantime I do know a trapper if you wanted to buy one.

We were sat down to supper a couple years ago, all of a sudden my mother jumped up pointing out the window. There was a lynx walking up our driveway. I went out on the patio and snapped a few pics with a disposable camera from about 10-15 feet away but the pics never came out.

hmmm... fresh crab legs and Blue Star, drool.....
 
Many years ago my father and I were ice fishing for lakers on Aylen Lake just south of Algonquin Park. We had caught a bunch of Ling and tossed them onto the ice to use for bait when the minnows ranout. We went up to the cottage for lunch and as we were looking out the kitchen window we saw a Lynx come out of the bush and grab one of the fish. We all thought it was amazing and a once in a lifetime event, when the Lynx comes back and grabs a second fish. We went back to our holes after lunch and did not see the Lynx again. When I went down to the spot in the morning the remaining fish were all gone. I tried following the prints in the snow but lost them when the trail took a route through a huge rock fall at the base of a cliff. That childhood memory is as fresh as if it were yesterday...got to love the Lynx.
 
A few years ago I when was out bear hunting I was sitting on a 4 way cut line. A lynx walked by me, about 40 yards away. I did not think much of it as I see them all the time. It was getting time to head back so I started down the cut line towards my truck, the same direction the lynx had gone.

I walked about 100 yards when a bush rabbit came flying out of the brush righ towards me. Only 1 yard from my feet it saw me and turned, hot on heels was the lynx. The lynx came to a sliding stop about 5 yards away from me, looked up at my face, and then sat down. It squinted its eyes slightly, much the same as a content house cat would, got up and walked back into the bush.



One day on the ride home from work I saw a truck pulled over. The people were watching something, I saw a chicken in the ditch. Whoopie doo, I though. Then I got a little closer and on the other side of the road i saw a lynx crouched down. I was just about stopped when that lynx lept up, ran across the road and jumped, most spectacularly, at the chicken. All he got was tail feathers as the bird took flight.
 
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I've got two newfie Mynxes living next door, and those sisters are a different breed :p

They are a doctor and a nurse, but I can't understand a word they say once the alcohol kicks in. The inner Newf takes over ;)
 
Lynx are classified as a furbearer in Newfoundland. Only licensed trappers are permitted to take them, and then, only in season & only in specific zones. Unfortunately, living on the Avalon, my zone is closed right now. Even if I take one accidentally in a fox set, etc...I have to turn it into our local Wildlife Dept.
 
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