PORT LUDLOW, Wash. - Animal control officers, with the help of a tranquilizer gun, removed a 35-pound bobcat from a Port Ludlow home last Saturday afternoon.
The homeowner told officers he had left his front door open and the bobcat walked into the house.
The homeowner saw the bobcat pawing at the door, then watched it jump over a couch, climb over a big screen TV and jump up to the loft.
"It did hunker down. It was calm, it didn't have any place to go and it felt safe upstairs," said Office Win Miller.
A state trooper, two Jefferson County Animal Control officers, two Jefferson County deputies, and two state Fish & Wildlife officers came to the home to help with the unusual call.
"I've never had anything like it," said Jefferson County Animal Control Officer Alex Mintz.
Fish and Wildlife says the bobcat was not harmed and was released back into the wild about six miles from the home. It scared away one of the homeowner's pet cats, but "Boo Boo" made it home Tuesday without a scratch.
