One woman happened across a bobcat in a Sierra Nevada-region campground, and she calmly filmed the encounter, calling the cat “beautiful.” She later posted her video to social media and didn’t seem so calm.
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“How LUCKY AM I OMG I’m DYING and my heart just exploded,” wrote Debbie Vaccarello in her Instagram post sharing the footage.
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The online community matched her excitement, viewing her video well over 300,000 times and leaving comments celebrating her special moment with the bobcat.
“VERY VERY LUCKY,” wrote one person in the comments section.
“You received quite a gift!” wrote another.
Watch a bobcat in a Sierra Nevada campsite here.
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