Leslie Smith-Aprea met an unexpected visitor inside her Hebron home on Monday: a bobcat that wandered into her sunroom through a glass door left open.

"I looked and there's a cat. What I thought was a cat," Aprea said. "It took me a second. I'm like, 'Why is there a cat? And how did it get in?' And then, I stared at it for a second, and, 'Oh my goodness, that's not a cat!'"

Aprea said her dog had been barking at the bobcat, which was sitting in the corner of the room.

"I actually thought, is that a stuffed animal? Because my dog stuffies are out there and I'm thinking, I don't recall getting that for her," Aprea said. "Then I saw the paws and I said, 'That's not a cat, that will tear my dog or me to shreds if I go out there!'"

Aprea said her husband had accidentally left the back door

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