Me and my best friend were out exploring when he asked if I wanted to stop and check out this cave he heard about. I love caves so I wanted to go. We were exploring these little cave openings when we found one that went deep into the main cave system. It was almost big enough to stand up in and it was dry. Right off the bat we started seeing animal sign, leaf beds, little animal holes, and lots of scat. We got about 30 yards into the cave when it started getting narrow, I had to crawl on my stomach and wriggle trough we got about 20 more yards and my buddy says hey look at that, I turn and about 2 inches from my hand is the scattered remains of some poor animal. I turn back to look at where I was headed. I could only see about 10 feet and the cave seemed to go on forever. I turned back to say something to my friend and then looked back at where I was going. There was a bob cat 10 feet away and it was headed for me. I couldn't really do anything, so i yelled "OH CRAP!!" my friend yelled "what?" back and I yelled "Bob cat! bob cat! back up! back up!" The bob cat stopped and turned around and went further into the cave. We backed out, and left the cave as calmly and quickly as we could.