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I'm sure its a mama with her two Juveniles, I saw them last week just laying in the middle of the street, I had to honk to get them to move...of course I was digging for my camera too!
We tried to scare them off during the attack and they were not afraid of us whatsoever. The mama is the size of my great Dane with a longer body and the young about the size of a Labrador retriever on steroids. I have my camera set up in the screen porch for tonights show! I am ready with spot light and all.
Before I moved to Naples, Fl., I lived in Palm Coast up in North East Florida by St. Augustine for 6 years and not two weeks after I moved there I had two juveniles run through my back yard, and stop and stare at us through the screen porch not 15 feet away we had the lights and radio on at 10pm at night!!! Since the Pro football team is called the Jaguars and I've never seen on e of them, thats what I thought I saw also because I always thought the florida panther was black...that is until I googled them and realized I was 15 feet away from a very mean cat ...Palm Coast is a huge development of 1000's of homes on 80ft 180ft lots... No one believed me when I reported it then, they said it was a bob cat! Bob cats are not as big as a great dane. argh..
It's unfortuante about the species, but since they introduced to cougar in they have become agressive yet are still protected and you cannot threaten them. We live in Golden Gate Estates an area of Naples that is about 15-20 miles east of the city of Naples it was designed and set aside for agriculture & small farms 3-4 acres. Yet you need 20ft fences now with all the panthers here. Every week the cats are in the news, attacking horses goats sheep, chicken, & turkeys. Florida Fish & Wildlife won't do anything because every time they relocate them, they seem to return to their home territory. The state makes a big deal of them I think for the funding, but they are not as rare as people are led to believe if 3% live in my back property and across the canal & up a few blocks my husbands coworker has 2 adults they see almost every day.
They are everywhere! Just like the alligators that they swore were almost exstinct and look now, they are in every place there is water. We had a kid loose his arm last month while swimming in a natural spring designated as a safe swimming hole!!
I just wonder if we left well enough alone, that they would have been OK because they are/were so shy. I'm sure the original estimates were low on how many there were left, due to the swamps and areas they live in.
We tried to scare them off during the attack and they were not afraid of us whatsoever. The mama is the size of my great Dane with a longer body and the young about the size of a Labrador retriever on steroids. I have my camera set up in the screen porch for tonights show! I am ready with spot light and all.
Before I moved to Naples, Fl., I lived in Palm Coast up in North East Florida by St. Augustine for 6 years and not two weeks after I moved there I had two juveniles run through my back yard, and stop and stare at us through the screen porch not 15 feet away we had the lights and radio on at 10pm at night!!! Since the Pro football team is called the Jaguars and I've never seen on e of them, thats what I thought I saw also because I always thought the florida panther was black...that is until I googled them and realized I was 15 feet away from a very mean cat ...Palm Coast is a huge development of 1000's of homes on 80ft 180ft lots... No one believed me when I reported it then, they said it was a bob cat! Bob cats are not as big as a great dane. argh..
It's unfortuante about the species, but since they introduced to cougar in they have become agressive yet are still protected and you cannot threaten them. We live in Golden Gate Estates an area of Naples that is about 15-20 miles east of the city of Naples it was designed and set aside for agriculture & small farms 3-4 acres. Yet you need 20ft fences now with all the panthers here. Every week the cats are in the news, attacking horses goats sheep, chicken, & turkeys. Florida Fish & Wildlife won't do anything because every time they relocate them, they seem to return to their home territory. The state makes a big deal of them I think for the funding, but they are not as rare as people are led to believe if 3% live in my back property and across the canal & up a few blocks my husbands coworker has 2 adults they see almost every day.
They are everywhere! Just like the alligators that they swore were almost exstinct and look now, they are in every place there is water. We had a kid loose his arm last month while swimming in a natural spring designated as a safe swimming hole!!
I just wonder if we left well enough alone, that they would have been OK because they are/were so shy. I'm sure the original estimates were low on how many there were left, due to the swamps and areas they live in.
