UPDATE What is this?? UPDATE new pic.
#102
Now I did want to say that I didn't mean to say that what I have seen is for a fact a panther. Again, we're close enough to South America that Jaguars wouldn't be surprising, plus there are a lot of exotic breeders in this country. I"m just saying a black large cat is not impossible ; ) .
I'm done with the arguement until someone can provide me a picture of a true black cougar. Then I will publicly apologize to each one of you. Until then......happy panther hunting.
#103
Spike
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 33
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!
#104
this isnt the article i was talking about but, kinda interesting...
\http://chronicle.augusta.com/content...arolina-or-are
\http://chronicle.augusta.com/content...arolina-or-are
#105
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 42
2lunger - my point was simply that you should not say something doesn't exist without knowing 100% for sure that it doesn't. Just because you haven't seen something, seen a picture of it or whatever, doesn't mean it doesn't exist, or is impossible. If that was the case then half of the animals in the rainforest didn't exist until a few years ago.
#106
this isnt the article i was talking about but, kinda interesting...
\http://chronicle.augusta.com/content...arolina-or-are
\http://chronicle.augusta.com/content...arolina-or-are
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#108
If you go back and READ the article it was a TPWD biologist that was being quoted about having 2 of them in his neighborhood. So are you going to dispute what a Texas biologist says? How many times do you think Mountain lions get treed while being hunted in say Colorado? The same cat can be treed many times... not that unusual. Did I answer your questions?
Live it up! Doug
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Last edited by kswild; 09-26-2010 at 08:09 PM.
#109
2lunger - my point was simply that you should not say something doesn't exist without knowing 100% for sure that it doesn't. Just because you haven't seen something, seen a picture of it or whatever, doesn't mean it doesn't exist, or is impossible. If that was the case then half of the animals in the rainforest didn't exist until a few years ago.
Rowdy, do you believe in Bigfoot? I mean we have more evidence they exist then the magical black cougar.
I think you misunderstand my point. Do I believe in black cats? Yes, but I do not think they are cougars. Do I believe that every black cat sighting is legit? No, not even over a 2% chance. Reason being is we would have some legit photos and a few dead bodies of such animal if even half of all sightings were legit.
Why do I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here?
#110
I get your point. I really do, but comparing North America to the rain forest is comparing apples to watermelons.
Rowdy, do you believe in Bigfoot? I mean we have more evidence they exist then the magical black cougar.
I think you misunderstand my point. Do I believe in black cats? Yes, but I do not think they are cougars. Do I believe that every black cat sighting is legit? No, not even over a 2% chance. Reason being is we would have some legit photos and a few dead bodies of such animal if even half of all sightings were legit.
Why do I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here?
Rowdy, do you believe in Bigfoot? I mean we have more evidence they exist then the magical black cougar.
I think you misunderstand my point. Do I believe in black cats? Yes, but I do not think they are cougars. Do I believe that every black cat sighting is legit? No, not even over a 2% chance. Reason being is we would have some legit photos and a few dead bodies of such animal if even half of all sightings were legit.
Why do I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here?
Live it up! Doug