Yikes!

wow, and I am complaining about the ferral cats in my neighborhood, that come through my yard, use it as a littler box, on the way to the neighbor lady that feeds them...

Yeah, a min pin would be a perfect snack. How unusual for it to go in the house!

Moni, I have the same problem and I tire of it. We have a home made seat on the front porch the strays like to rest on. Two of us are allergic to cat hair and dander which renders that seating worthless. And, of course, the cat feces everywhere. Every now and then, at night, I'll hear one scream as an owl gets down to business. I bet those pet owners miss their cats!

Y'all could borrow my Sophie she's fast and quiet ;)

I was shocked it would enter the house too, especially in a place like Plano where there's tons of pets.

For those of you not familiar with the Dallas suburbs of Plano and Frisco, they have experienced exponential and seemingly never-ending growth the last couple of decades, and there's a perpetual bobcat and coyote problem for residents, largely because so much growth so quickly has left the wildlife with fewer and fewer wild areas in which to live and hunt. Every year there's news stories showing bobcats in yards, on roof tops, walking along fences, strolling through yards, etc. Last year one mama bobcat raised her babies under someone's deck in their backyard. I believe they patiently waited for the babies to grow up enough to start hunting and then had them trapped and relocated.

To me, it is amazing the little dog made it safely indoors, albeit injured. I hate to think what might have happened to the min pin if the door had been closed in this instance. I assume her other min pin was in the yard as well but apparently wasn't injured.

The worst animal I've ever had run in an open door wasn't even a wild thing. It was a pit bull and it appeared out of nowhere, running in the door as I was walking out.

My favorite wildlife invader? Hummingbirds. They seem to feel like they get to know us and they aren't at all shy and will fly in the door every now and then when someone is going in or out or whatever. Once indoors, their favorite thing to do is to perch on a ceiling fan blade and ride it around the room for a while. I have to turn off the fan, wait for it to stop and then try to catch the hummingbird and release it back outdoors, a task made difficult if there is a cat in the living room at the time. I usually have to either put the cat out or in another room so that there's not two of us trying to catch the hummingbird.

I believe if a bobcat came indoors, I'd head right out the door, unless I had a cat or dog in the room that I needed to protect. I imagine a bobcat that finds itself accidentally indoors probably wants out of the house as much as the people want it out of the house.