‘Are you after my mice?’: B.C. pilot films encounter with young bobcat | 24CA News
A YouTube video that includes playful dialog with a bobcat has earned Kamloops, B.C., pilot Jan Nademlejnsky some stunning fame on social media.
“Hey, what’s up?” Nademlejnsky stated whereas chirping and cooing to the animal, which stared on the digital camera whereas staying near the door of a picket storage home.
“Are you after my mice? Very nice!”
The 92-second clip, which he stated was filmed final Friday at his airplane hangar at Kamloops Airport, has been seen greater than 9,000 instances because it was revealed on Monday, and the quantity continues to be rising.
WATCH | Pilot Jan Nademlejnsky speaks softly to bobcat prowling close to his hangar
Pilot Jan Nademlejnsky paperwork his shut encounter with a bobcat.
Nademlejnsky says he as soon as noticed a bobcat from a distance at McArthur Island Park in Kamloops, however he has by no means seen one up shut.
He initially thought it was a home cat, judging from the small paw prints on the snow.
“I was very glad because we have lots of mice and marmots, which create real havoc around the airport,” Nademlejnsky informed host Shelley Joyce on CBC’s Daybreak Kamloops.
“At the same time, I couldn’t believe that a domestic cat would be there.”
‘A small home cat, however fluffier’
Nademlejnsky says he was refuelling his plane and clearing up snow on the bottom when he noticed the bobcat. He then guided the animal to the storage home to be able to take a better look.
“I was coming closer and it didn’t run or anything — it was not scared,” he stated.
“[Then] I realized that must be a bobcat, because I saw the typical hair from its ears — it looks like a small domestic cat, but fluffier.”
Nademlejnsky says he kneeled on his knees and used his cellphone to movie the bobcat earlier than guiding the animal to a niche between a fence and an airport constructing.
24CA News has reached out to the B.C. Conservation Officer Service for touch upon Nademlejnsky’s interplay with the animal and whether or not it is a bobcat or a lynx.
In the previous, conservation officers stated sightings of bobcats have been uncommon within the Thompson area.
Nademlejnsky got here to Canada in 1979 from the previous Czechoslovakia. As a self-taught pilot, he has shared lots of of YouTube movies that includes him gliding and flying numerous plane.
He says he’s glad to know his candy speak with a bobcat has gotten a lot traction on social media.
“There must be lots of cute stuff lovers around the world,” he stated.
While neither bobcats nor lynxes usually pose a danger to people, wildlife specialists have suggested folks to maintain their distance and make noise after they encounter one.
If the animals are seen in city areas, it’s suggested that pets be saved indoors, and sightings are reported to the B.C. Conservation Officer Service.
