Wild cat inside home unimpressed by attempts to lure it out. ‘Cats like lasers’
A wild cat inside a home was unimpressed by an “outside the box” attempt to lure it back to the Colorado wilderness, video shows.
The homeowner had left a door to her Ken Caryl home unlatched for her pet cat Meatball to let himself back inside after she went to bed. Instead she was woken up at 4 a.m. “to crashing and banging” and then “came face to face” with a bobcat that seemed to have chased Meatball inside, she wrote in the comments under a video the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office shared on Facebook on May 28.
A deputy’s body camera shows the resident directing authorities to where the bobcat had “cozied up behind the TV,” the agency said in the post.
A photo shows the wild cat peering toward the camera as one deputy is heard in the video telling the others to come “look at this thing.”
“Here kitty kitty,” he says.
Then he gets a bright idea.
“Well, I’m going to see if he chases the laser,” the deputy says in the video. “I don’t know, cats like lasers.”
“It’s not a normal cat,” the resident says slowly.
“Cats are all the same,” the deputy says as he tries tempting the bobcat with his taser’s green laser. “They all like the same thing.”
“You guys are hilarious,” the resident replies as the deputy again summons the wild cat with a “here little kitty kitty.”
The bobcat didn’t seem to budge at all, the video shows.
“Cats and dogs chase laser pointers, but this bobcat was not impressed,” the agency said in the post. “The bobcat’s verdict? Not interested. It left at its own pace, right out the open back door. Guess some intruders just aren’t dazzled by our high-tech tricks.”
The homeowner said she learned her lesson in the comments.
“Parks and Wildlife and an amazing officer named Jerrie saved the day and told us to quit it with the lasers and just make the house dark and quiet and after 4 hours, that did the trick,” she said. “Keep your garage doors closed, garbage inside till day of pickup, and don’t leave the door unlatched for your pets. I’m just glad this baby wasn’t hurt.”
“Tell your bobcat I said ‘Pspspspspsps’,” someone joked in the comments.
Ken Caryl is about a 25-mile drive southwest from Denver.
This story was originally published May 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM with the headline "Wild cat inside home unimpressed by attempts to lure it out. ‘Cats like lasers’."
