Bigfoot, what about a black panther!!!!!!!!!????
I hunt in south central georgia and all the experts claim that there are NO black panthers in the area. BUT I have personally heard them catch dogs. I was hunting, I heard dogs bark, I had a VERY loud screetch(probably misspelled) and then one dog hollered and then nothing. Before I could tell my father-in-law who hunts the same general area, he said that him and my sister-in-law saw two jump in the dirt road in front of them go down it a small piece and then back into the woods on the other side. He measured the tracks and stride. One foot was 4 inches and the other was 6 inches wide. The strides were 6 feet and 8 feet. He saw two big black cats(we assume black panthers because nothing else is that big down here). I would most definatly shoot them if given the chance because I am scared that they may take me out if given the chance. What do ya'll think?
Thanks
Mike
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Mike
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One of the fondest memories of my misspent youth concerned a big Bobcat..and his actions as he enjoyed a half-hour stretching and preening on a big flat rock in the raising morning sun of a cold, frosty morning in Arkansas.
Not shooting him left me with the mental picture of his glaring at me over his shoulder, as as stalked away...me knowing how a rabbit might well freeze in fright as that final leap consigns him to mere food...0 -
The big cats are the wariest of animals.
In all the deer hunting I did in central Georgia, I only had one bobcat sighting. Two bobcats walked within 15 yards of my tree stand one bright morning, they never knew I was there. I think they were young bobcats, looked like about 12 pounds apiece. They might have been siblings as they looked just alike.
Of course I didn't shoot them. It was worth going hunting that morning just to see these beautiful creatures.
There are lots of bobcats in central Ga., you can hear 'em screaming at night. But you never see them, I never saw one killed by a car, whereas, the highways down there are littered with dead deer and raccoons.0 -
quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
I'll be glad when they're extinct myself[:D]
where is Earl Butz when you need him?
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There is a North american black panther which is no less a black mountain lion. The North American black panther is smaller than the the african species.
I have heard stories of these for many years but i have never personally seen one.0 -
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-Cougars and/or panthers are, as someone said earlier, pretty wiley. Saying that you will never see one, is so close to the truth that it might as well be the truth.
Regarding big, black cats, I was reading a magazine story a few years ago about mysterious killings of smaller farm animals in the English countryside. One woman had a couple of her goats killed and partially eaten. The local officials scoffed it off as either a prank (some prank) or dog attacks. One day, however, the woman had a black panther try to come in her back door.
It seems that back in the 60s and early 70s it was pretty chic (and legal, I suppose) to own as pets certain big cats such as ocelots and black panthers. Later, as the newness, the expense and the effort to keep up the animals wore off or became too much to bear, many of the owners, unable to find any takers, turned the animals loose out in the countryside.
That might be the answer in the case of these black cat sightings in the US. "Real" black panthers from South America (or so I understand it to be) are larger than the puma/couger/mountain lion we might see.
Anyway, this is one possible explanation. Can anyone speak to this idea?0 -
turned the animals loose out in the countryside.
That might be the answer in the case of these black cat sightings in the US. "Real" black panthers from South America (or so I understand it to be) are larger than the puma/couger/mountain lion we might see.
Probably the most realistic theory.
they would have no problem surviving.0
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