Bobcat captured in downtown Houston garage

The preferred habitat for bobcats are wooded areas, swamplands or rocky outcrops but one member of the species Lynx rufus on Tuesday opted for a downtown Houston parking garage. The bobcat was spotted about 10:45 a.m. inside the garage at 511 Rusk near the Bob Casey Federal Building. It was captured about 90 minutes later, checked and released into the wild. At first, reports of a wild animal roaming about the garage did not raise much concern for city animal control officials. They've heard that story before. “We thought it was going to be a house cat,” said Chris Glaser, a supervisor with Houston's Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care. The cat was trying to hide under cars when animal control officials arrived. “It may have been asleep there overnight and woken up,” Glaser said. BARC officials would use two tranquilizer darts to subdue the animal...read more