SAPULPA, OK (KJRH/CNN) – An Oklahoma newspaper publisher got quite the shock one morning when he walked into the bathroom and discovered a wild bobcat.
Darren Sumner hadn’t had his Diet Pepsi yet and was still half-asleep when he went to the back bathroom of the Sapulpa Herald and saw an adult male bobcat, which jumped at him.
The man says he simply shut the bathroom door and kept the wild animal trapped inside for four hours until police, the game warden and a specialist showed up to capture it.
No one was injured during the incident, but Sumner says his heart may have skipped a beat.
"It was a scary way to begin a Friday morning,” he said.
Sumner believes the bobcat came from a neighboring building.
"This older building here was recently purchased by someone new. The former owner had like 30 cats as pets. And there was walls and plants, and they moved it all out yesterday,” Sumner said.
The publisher thinks the bobcat was living in the building for several months until its nest was disturbed – causing it to find shelter next door through the newspaper’s loading garage.
"We leave it up most of the time. We bring inserts and stuff in the back of the newspaper. He probably got in there last night and spent the night in our back bathroom,” Sumner said.
The bobcat was removed from the building and released in a more appropriate natural area.
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