SEQUIM – A bobcat that has been sheltered at a rescue facility since his Dec. 16 capture in Port Angeles is expected to be released back into the wild this week.
“He is still here with us,” said Jaye Moore of the Northwest Raptor Center in Sequim on Friday.
The bobcat – Moore said that evidence has convinced her the cat is a male – was trapped by Elvis Guy Iredale, who lives on South Mount Angeles Road south of Port Angeles, after he had lost most of a flock of ducks to the predator.
Saying that one of the bobcat’s eyes was cloudy, Iredale worried that the animal was in need of medical care.
“I just want to make sure that the cat won’t be turned out in the wild handicapped,” Iredale said then.
The bobcat’s eye had been damaged, said Moore, but Dr. Mike Tyler of the Greywolf Veterinary Hospital in Sequim has OK’d the animal’s return to the wild.
Moore is awaiting direction from the state Fish and Wildlife Department about where to release the animal before she lets it go.
