"I had two of them in my neighborhood near Houston in the late 70s and the dogs would tree them every couple of weeks. They're about the most secretive critters around," he added.



I'll point out this paragraph from your link. He had two of these cats in his neighborhood that got treed every couple of weeks, and all the proof he has is a couple crappy pictures of a "track" and a damned quarter? Plus they are super secretive, yet they got treed every couple of weeks in the same neighborhood? Common sense would tell me that a "super secretive" animal would leave the area after being treed by dogs.

Please help me out here!

And to the people who said that they've never seen a coon dog with a curly tail or a black coon dog, I guess the coon dog across the road is a genetic freak? And all of the other coon/bear dogs around here that I've seen with curled tails and which are black are figments of my imagination?

And the fact that anyone could positively identify TWO rare as bigfoot, never actually documented animals from a grainy trail cam pic with three foot tall grass between these two rare beasts and the said grainy trail cam, is positively astonishing!!!

And I wish years ago when I first heard of a black panther I would have started counting these magnificent tales and keeping track of which states they came from. My bet is it would have been almost all 50 states and a few Canadian provinces.

And isn't it astonishing that out of all of the Mountain Lions, Cougars, Panthers, whatever you want to call them, that are harvested in the US and Canada every year, there hasn't been one black mountain lion shot? The only "proof" we have are crappy trail cam pics, sightings from a distance close to dark and pictures of a very light track with a quarter in it that can supposedly tell us that the animal that made it is black.

Please, if you can, help me understand!