Anyine else seen a 45+lb Black cat?

[Carolyn]

I live in rural west Tennessee where cougars are alledgely no longer native. However a few years back a cougar was spotted by several people over a period of time. They called the wildlife folks who actually acknowledge that the tracks were cougar tracks. They said it was likely an animal that had been raised in captivity and let go in the area. They actually said to shoot it because it would be very dangerous because it probably had no fear of humans.

 

[tiki244]

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Thats what I was thinking as a second alternative to panther; or, a lynx crossed with a maine coon cat

 

[tiki244]

Oh my goodness nnbreeder and dangerchicken those are SOME pics, never seen anything like it

 

[1acrefarm]

I saw an albino cat that was as large as a Labrador retriever on my grand parents property about 15 years ago. Grandma lives in the foothills of the Northeast Georgia mountains. My dad told me it had to be something else because no cat in Georgia is that big. My grand dad told him don't bet on that. Apparently my grand dad had seen a few. Needless to say from then on I made sure when I hunted my grand parents property I had a pistol on me as a backup for whatever I was hunting with. I never saw another large cat on my grandparents property. I have saw a few bobcats behind my house that were a fair size.

 

[dacjohns]

Here we go again. More hoaxes and rumors without proof. A friend of a friend of a friend saw . . .



http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/patiomountainlion.asp

 

[can you hear me now?]

Now that is great!!! Anyway it isn't a case of he said she said for me my wife didn't think to use her camera on her phone. No she thinks to say why don't I text my husband while I am sitting here looking at it. Go figure, she didn't pay good attention to detail either. I say, "Did it have pointed or curved ears?"She says, "I don't know I wasn't paying that much attention. I was in awe that it was there and not running away."

 

[nnbreeder]

I was actually wondering about that but that was the winter after TS storm Erin re-formed over the Watonga area and dumped a foot of rain in eight hours pushing a four foot wall of water our way. There was a lot of displaced animals and ones that got caught in the flood, still looking for skeletons of big cats though, they are in the area because I've seen both tracks and the animals themselves. Bobcats are plentiful too, my fil traps up to 15 of them every year just west of Edmond Ok. One year he got one so large that the taxidermist he uses couldn't get a form big enough to mount it.

 

[PearlD]

Yeah but Snopes says: REAL PHOTOGRAPHS-INNACCURATE DESCRIPTION
The 'looking at the kids' part may be totally false, but....that IS a huge wild beast on someones deck!!I know this girl would be locking down tight!!

BTW: I LOVE SNOPES!!! I always send people Snopes links when they forward some stupid chain email about how Dell is giving away free computers, or whatnot.

And they always get huffy with me.......go figure.

 

[ella]

Big black cats have been sighted all over the country. Some sightings are really big housecats or even dogs.

Real big black cats are not panthers or cougars (same thing) as they do not have a melanistic form. But could be black jaguars or leopards and are most likely escaped pets.

One was killed in Missouri last month:

http://www.showmenews.com/2008/Jun/20080623News008.asp

My mom thinks she saw a bobcat in our frontyard in the middle of the day during our garage sale. I think a big housecat is just a bit more likely.

 

[dacjohns]

Keeping exotic pets and then not being to contain them or deliberately releasing them.