OMG!!! First Game Cam pic ever. Huge Funny thread

[wood&feathers]

Wow!

That is a great picture. I add my vote to the "sure looks like a cougar to me" column.

C'mon folks the picture is from Idaho! I spent 10 years working wildlife contracts for USFS (and lived in rocky bobcat country another 15) and have seen lots of bobcats - that is NOT a bobcat. Look at the shoulder mass and tail girth! The fur on a cougar is shorter and dense, thus the obvious muscle. In profile the ears aren't really very clear, but are rather small in relation to the rest, consistent with cougar.

Keep that camera out!

 

[wood&feathers]

Oh, and in places like Idaho, things like coyotes, wolves and wild felines tend to keep feral cat colonies suppressed or eliminated.

 

[speckledhen]

Hopefully, the member has figured out what it was since the thread is over a year old. Be interesting to see if she got a better picture of it later on.

 

[emys]

Just for the curious, no, we never got another picture of it. Nothing else has ever looked like it. We have also never caught another cat picture (of any size cat) at night. Just lots of raccoon and skunk pictures.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Must have been passing through

 

[chickendude]

I can't believe this post resurfaced

I still don't understand how people can't see that it is a simple pussy cat.

 

[GBov]

Quote:
"A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still!"

Its a cougar

 

[terrilhb]

Oh my oh my. Good luck and becareful

 

[theFox]

Don't you see Bigfoot?

It is there right next to the Werewolf who is talking to the kitty cat.

 

[chickendude]

I would go for Bigfoot before I went with a mountain lion.