What kind of Predator is this?????

[mooman]

The tail of all florida panthers has a 90 degree kink in the last couple inches (due to inbreeding and small pop. size this trait has been fixed). I imagine I can see it in your photo, but maybe I just want to. The angle isn't quite right.

If it is a panther, you will not have the problem for long. Our generation will almost certianly be the last to share the earth with this species. Appreciate it for what it is.......and buy a pop door.

 

[pringle]

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That is definitly a couger.it cant be a bobcat becouse they dont have tails or only lil ones lol

 

[jonusko]

Foxes and cats will kill and cache food when it is abundant. I am not sure if raccoons cache, but they do partake in mass killings. I have had a bobcat kill chickens over a period of days, but never in the same day. Coyotes, like dogs, will kill all the chickens for the pure sport of it. I have also heard of mountain lions killing multiple goats and sheep for sport.

If this picture is the predator, I would say it was a young panther.

I have scared off bobcats, foxes, coyotes and bears. Sometimes it is hard to determine a fox from a coyote at a distance when they are running. I scared off a fox on Monday morning. It ran and cleared a 4' fence like it wasn't there.

 

[Boyd]

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[mailmamm]

I would say cougar too. Just by the coloring. And I would look for evidence too. They won't carry their prey very far away to eat it.

Very sorry for your loss and worries.

 

[Empera]

I know this is somewhat off topic, but last August I was driving my best friend, myself, and my boyfriend to a boat race (We do hydroplaning) in Eastern Washington.

It was like 10 pm at night, and we were the only ones going over Blewett Pass. I saw a blur to my left and it was this MASSIVE cougar pouncing and galloping towards my friends new Scion.

We all screamed and I barely swerved but it launched into the front drivers side door. I felt it slam into the door. I saw its paws, its jaws and all those pretty sharp teeth. I'm sure in slow-motion it would have been cool. We pulled over and I was breathing so hard and was having a panic attack.

Btw, I'm a huge lover of animals. I will cry if I see something dead on the road, etc.

Such a softie.

But we looked at the car, a barely noticeable dent that the cougars head made. And we turned around to see if the cougar was still there to move it or do something. That is too big of an animal to leave in the middle of the road.

It was gone!

Anyways, sorry for making it random. It was an experience I won't forget, but now more animals have jumped out in front of my car (haven't hit any) than anything else! And I'm such a sucker for animals.

 

[cafarmgirl]

Empera, please do not ever get out of the car to check on a cougar, even if it's just lying in the road. You can easily get yourself killed.

 

[Empera]

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We didn't get out of the car, haha. I was saying that because I worry about people hitting something that like. No one would have let me get out of the car.

I understand that they might look dead but aren't really.

Thanks for the reminder though.

 

[Cetawin]

Hmmmm I dunno about it being a florida panther... there is too much white near the tip of the tail and it looks like a small tail...too small for a panther. But...here is some info on them and pictures of them...you can see the tail of an adult and a youngster.

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...W1GGLL_en&sa=X&um=1&ei=-oL8SZCjB4PSswPMnOzRAQ

That looks more like a stray cat. What signs have been around the coop when the birds were taken? How did the predator get inside?

Fox will carry them away and to the den...especially this time of year when the kits are young and out of the nursing stage.

Good luck getting pictures of whatever it is.

 

[Jeff9118]

I have also had issues with foxes and agree they will carry them away but they always left a mess of feathers where they caught them and I can usally at least follow which direction they went through the woods by the trail of feathers they leave. I dont think this is a fox. I have had every predator you can think of except bears. Cougars and bobcats were the only thing I had take adult chickens and turkeys without leaving behind evidence other then the huge clumps of feathers in the woods where they devoured them.