Trail cam picture of mountain lion in SC
#23
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2015
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I got a call from my girlfriend at work and she went to go feed our puppies outside in dalzell outskirts of sumter sc and she seen a big brown cat that was about 20 yards from her and she ran back inside and called dnr who said its probably a land cougar. DNR said they don't stay in the same spot long and when I got home I was kinda like yeah right well I go to the bathroom and she yells its another one. I stand up and there is a junkyard behind my house and I see a medium size cat sitting on a white junk car about 3 foot tall. I run to get my gun and by the time I get outside its gone. I walk up to the car and there was footprints on the car where the cat was. And a few nights before I heard a wierd noise in the woods sounded like a cat but its not no meow sound but you could tell it was a cat. A week later a co-worker tells me he heard something like I did in the woods by his house. Sounds likes a cat fighting noise or somekind of call they make, but do not let dnr fool everybody they know there here.
#25

If it is a Florida Panther that wandered north, be advised it is a $50,000 fine and up to a year in jail for shooting one (federal). Not the type of thing you'd want to advertise if it did happen.
They can cover a lot of territory, there are regular stories about the odd Cougar showing up many hundreds of miles from their home range.
They can cover a lot of territory, there are regular stories about the odd Cougar showing up many hundreds of miles from their home range.
#26

Why do people feel the need to recycle pictures that have been in the internet for years and try to pass them off as legitimate? I have seen that picture at least a dozen times over the years, each time trying to be sold as a current picture by the poster or posters friend. I have to wonder if those who post the picture in the east don't know the difference between a Mule deer which that is and a Whitetail as others have pointed out As far as black cougars, there are none, there never have been. There are black leopards and black jaguars but there has never been any record of a black cougar.
Last edited by Oldtimr; 09-11-2015 at 05:24 AM. Reason: extra word