I need help IDENTIFYING this animal ASAP
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Charlotte NC
Posts: 175
I need help IDENTIFYING this animal ASAP
Earlier today my dobermans were raising hell outsiode.
I went outside and heard ALOT of running through the bushes.
Tonight I pulled into my driveway to find 6 small dog/cat like creatures in my driveway.
Maybe as big as a fox, but LOOKED like a cat with a very long skinny tail, very bushy fur, and RED and BROWN striped.
They looked like a red and brown zebra.
In almost 20 years of hunting I have NEVER seen these kinds of animal before, they were NOT foxes or coyotes.
IF they were some form of wild cat then they were genetically all screwed up. I live in Charlotte NC on the outskirts in 29 acres of VERY heavily wooded land.
When I pulled in they didnt run, they stood there making like, yelping noises?
I honked the honr they didnt move, I layed on the horn for almost 10 seconds and they WALKED into the bushes.
WTF kind of animal is that???
I went outside and heard ALOT of running through the bushes.
Tonight I pulled into my driveway to find 6 small dog/cat like creatures in my driveway.
Maybe as big as a fox, but LOOKED like a cat with a very long skinny tail, very bushy fur, and RED and BROWN striped.
They looked like a red and brown zebra.
In almost 20 years of hunting I have NEVER seen these kinds of animal before, they were NOT foxes or coyotes.
IF they were some form of wild cat then they were genetically all screwed up. I live in Charlotte NC on the outskirts in 29 acres of VERY heavily wooded land.
When I pulled in they didnt run, they stood there making like, yelping noises?
I honked the honr they didnt move, I layed on the horn for almost 10 seconds and they WALKED into the bushes.
WTF kind of animal is that???
#4
Join Date: May 2004
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Posts: 106
RE: I need help IDENTIFYING this animal ASAP
I spent quite a bit of time looking on the net for what you described. Good thing my boss doesn't know.
Anyway I couldn't find anything that, that is native to North Carolina.
Best resources I found were http://www.mammalsociety.org/statelists/ncmammals.html and for all locations http://enature.com
There isn't anything that I could find that fit that description. I only checked native species to North America though. Could be something somebody smuggled in an let loose.
Anyway I couldn't find anything that, that is native to North Carolina.
Best resources I found were http://www.mammalsociety.org/statelists/ncmammals.html and for all locations http://enature.com
There isn't anything that I could find that fit that description. I only checked native species to North America though. Could be something somebody smuggled in an let loose.
#6
RE: I need help IDENTIFYING this animal ASAP
ORIGINAL: x-mountie
Hoopy:
could it be a fisher? sounds like it fits the description.
Hoopy:
could it be a fisher? sounds like it fits the description.
My guess it was a family of foxes, they can sometimes look cat-like if you have the right angle.
If it wasn't that then it was probably an exotic. I would just shoot one and find out.
#7
RE: I need help IDENTIFYING this animal ASAP
I want to say an Lynx but its hard to say. I know there is an rather odd looking fox that is in the family tree. My best advice is go or call the wildlife department and maybe find out that way.
#9
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: the Great Plains
Posts: 351
RE: I need help IDENTIFYING this animal ASAP
Couldn't have been bobcats. BOBcats don't have tails, and these did. Man, I would be tempted to bag one of those critters and get some advice. To not be scared of you is too wierd. Most times a horn or barking dogs will run a wild animal off. Hope you don't have any little dogs to go along with your dobermans!
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 2,059
RE: I need help IDENTIFYING this animal ASAP
Try this link:
http://www.cfbisd.edu/schools/blk/ac...d%20Panda.html
Does it look like the picture?
Dan O.
http://www.cfbisd.edu/schools/blk/ac...d%20Panda.html
Does it look like the picture?
Dan O.