Leslie Smith-Aprea met an unexpected visitor inside her Hebron home on Monday; a bobcat that wandered into her sunroom through a glass door left open.”I looked and there’s a cat. What I thought was a cat,” Aprea said. “It took me a second. I’m like, ‘Why is there a cat? And how did it get in?’ And then, I stared at it for a second and ‘Oh my goodness, that’s not a cat!'”Aprea said her dog had been barking at the bobcat, which was sitting in the corner of the room. “I actually thought, is that a stuffed animal? Because my dog stuffies are out there and I’m thinking, I don’t recall getting that for her,” Aprea said. “Then I saw the paws and I said, that’s not a cat that will tear my dog or me to shreds if I go out there!”>> Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go: Apple | Google Play > Subscribe to WMUR’s YouTube channel

MANCHESTER, N.H. —

Leslie Smith-Aprea met an unexpected visitor inside her Hebron home on Monday; a bobcat that wandered into her sunroom through a glass door left open.

“I looked and there’s a cat. What I thought was a cat,” Aprea said. “It took me a second. I’m like, ‘Why is there a cat? And how did it get in?’ And then, I stared at it for a second and ‘Oh my goodness, that’s not a cat!'”

Aprea said her dog had been barking at the bobcat, which was sitting in the corner of the room.

“I actually thought, is that a stuffed animal? Because my dog stuffies are out there and I’m thinking, I don’t recall getting that for her,” Aprea said. “Then I saw the paws and I said, that’s not a cat that will tear my dog or me to shreds if I go out there!”

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Aprea said her husband had accidentally left the back door open, allowing the curious feline to slip inside. Security cameras caught the animal creeping toward the house before making its entrance.

Her husband and son managed to coax the bobcat back outside, but not before it scaled the door, leaving scratches on the wood from its claws.

“I’m going to leave those scratches on my wall forever so I can say, yeah, yeah, that was a bobcat,” she said.

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