{"id":361184,"date":"2025-11-07T02:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361184\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T02:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:29:16","slug":"there-he-was-climbing-up-my-walls-scratching-the-heck-out-of-them-woman-recounts-finding-bobcat-in-nh-home-boston-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/361184\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There he was, climbing up my walls, scratching the heck out of them\u2019: Woman recounts finding bobcat in NH home &#8211; Boston News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HEBRON, N.H. (WHDH) &#8211; A shocking sight for a woman in Hebron, New Hampshire. She found a bobcat inside her home!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just started to go out that door, and I saw a cat,\u201d Leslie Smith-Aprea said, who found the bobcat. \u201cI thought it was stuffed at first, I guess. I don\u2019t know what I thought, really. I couldn\u2019t comprehend it for a second.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith-Aprea said her husband returned home from walking their dog and left the door wide open, allowing the bobcat to get inside.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video shows the bobcat headed toward the home. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere he was, climbing up my walls, scratching the heck out of them,\u201d Smith-Aprea said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith-Aprea\u2019s husband and son managed to coax the cat back outside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew it wanted to get out, it was really a juvenile, you know?\u201d Smith-Aprea said. \u201cBut, too big for me to handle, I don\u2019t even like regular house cats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith-Aprea said she\u2019ll use the damage to the house as a playful reminder for her husband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will kind of use this against him a few times,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s the most careful person I\u2019ve ever met, but\u2026\u201d she continued jokingly. <\/p>\n<p>(Copyright (c) 2025 Sunbeam Television. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)<\/p>\n<p>\t<strong class=\"wp-block-newsletter__title\">Join our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HEBRON, N.H. (WHDH) &#8211; A shocking sight for a woman in Hebron, New Hampshire. She found a bobcat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":361185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-361184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115506063834282687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}