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GOLD CANYON, Ariz. - The images are incredible. A
        bobcat that has scampered

to the top of a saguaro cactus -- and
        it was quite a climb!

The photos were captured in
        Gold Canyon , on the foot of the
        Superstition

Mountains.

The bobcat was trying to get away
        from a mountain lion that was stalking it,

explains the
        photographer Curt Fonger. He darted up a 40-foot saguaro,
        and

there he stayed for the remainder of the
        day.

Curt Fonger and his wife Marta are living out
        their golden years on

wilderness' edge in Gold Canyon . With over
        40 years of photography

experience, Curt recently had a
        career-defining moment.

"I've never had the luxury
        of seeing a bobcat on top of a saguaro," he says.

"Just a
        beautiful creature, he was displaying himself proudly, kind
        of

looking around, probably trying to see if mister mountain lion
        was still

around... it was almost if he was
        posing!

Curt says the golden cat with amber eyes
        stared back at him, perched on top

of the cactus for hours. "He
        was pretty relaxed, he kind of laid on top of

the saguaro, shut
        his eyes, almost as if he was sleeping."

The bobcat
        eventually came down, but Curt and Marta are still riding
        high.

"It was that Kodak moment I think every photographer lives
        for."