Big Cat Picture from Penna.

BarnesX.308 · 09-13-2006, 07:58 AM

I"™m not making any claims. I"™ll just let the pictures do the talking.

T_in_PA3 · 09-13-2006, 08:18 AM

Yep, looks like a cat. PA or not, who knows?? It is a feline of some sort.

muckland · 09-13-2006, 08:50 AM

The second pic looks like Bobcat? ist hard to tell the actual size. very cool

GREEK HUNTER · 09-13-2006, 09:24 AM

hey barnes you from the bassbarn.com i'm phillyfishing

BTBowhunter · 09-13-2006, 10:12 AM

Are these supposed to be the same cat? The first pic has the long tail of a cougar/ mt lion/ Puma and the second seems to have a Bobcat/lynx type of short tail. The second cat is blurred but also seems to have the tuftedears and some body markings of a bobcat

Do youknow the source of the pics Barnesx.308?

BarnesX.308 · 09-13-2006, 10:37 AM

Greek Hunter - I'm Aquasport190 from The Bass Barn. Small world.

The pictures were taken in Sullivan County, PA. They were taken by a neighbor of ours up there.

BTBowhunter · 09-13-2006, 10:43 AM

If you know and trust the person who took them, that's good enough for me.

I have no doubt that we have a few of them here in PA. I know of two sightings in Westmotreland and Indiana Counties a few years back by two people I personally know and their accounts of what they saw was very credible. I also have had a personal encounter with one in Illinois where the DNR there absolutely denied the possibility could exist.

BarnesX.308 · 09-13-2006, 10:52 AM

I have talked to hunters who have seen them. This is the first picture I have seen from up there, though. I KNOW for a fact that one was running around the suburbs of Philly a few years back because it was all over the news. What's to keep one from living in the sticks. I know some people will call me crazy for believing it's possible. That's fine. That beats having my little kids snatched up by one of these things. I'll operate under the assumption that there might be something out there.

Windwalker7 · 09-13-2006, 12:43 PM

I am the first to admit, that I believe there are mountain lions in PA, BUT.........those a re pictures of a bobcat.

Look at the ears in the first photo. See the white patches on the back of the ears? Those are what a bobcat has on the back of it's ears.

A ML has brown ears.

If you look closely, I'm not sure that is a long tail. I think that is the back of the back leg.

Besides, the tail would be much longer.

But anyway, the white on the ears give it away.

Its a bobcat!

DougE · 09-13-2006, 01:29 PM

The second picture is definately a bobcat.The cat in the first picture appears to have a long tail but if you look close,it also appears to be part of the back leg.I immediately thought it was a bobcat because of the white on the back of the ears but it could also be white flowers or weeds.Kind of coincidental that they'd be on the back of both ears though.The cat is also very small with spots on the inside of it's back leg.I call bobcat on both accounts.

This is the third picture of bobcatsI've seen posted where people thought they were mountain lions.I don't believe for one minute that we have any type of a mountain lion population in Pa,regardless of what Slinky has to say.Where would they come from?I suppose a few illegal petscould be released from time to time but the chances of a male and female running in to each other and reproducing is highly unlikely.