"While rabbits, squirrels, and rodents make up the bulk of their prey, the 9-40 pound Bobcat is powerful enough to take down young deer and other ungulates, nimble enough to capture much smaller prey, including insects like grasshoppers"........."Because of both their abundance and their hunting prowess, the cats play an important role in their ecosystems, controlling the populations of a number of species that might otherwise go unchecked, including lyme disease and other tick-borne carrying rodents"............Comfortable enough around people to call suburbia home, below are pictures of a West Texas homeowner who allowed successive families of "Bobs" to make his porch home in 2017-18

https://www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-world/natural-world/bobcat-manor

Bobcat Manor

Earthtouch News August 27, 2019

Bobcat Manor