UPDATE What is this?? UPDATE new pic.
09-26-2010, 08:27 PM
#111
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Illinois
Posts: 3,558
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
Ok. I have no trouble believing this article. You don't think that what they call a Florida Panther is a black cat do you? Florida Panther is a subspecies of the Eastern Cougar. Same thing as a cougar but just a tad smaller. It's no secret that the North American Cougar is expanding it's home range. Hell, we've had 4 dead wild cougars in the state of IL. in the last 8 years. Matter of fact, the Indiana DNR just got live photos this year of one just across the river from my home town.
http://www.examiner.com/outdoor-trav...irm-with-photo
09-27-2010, 05:05 AM
#113
Spike
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 21
Ok. I have no trouble believing this article. You don't think that what they call a Florida Panther is a black cat do you? Florida Panther is a subspecies of the Eastern Cougar. Same thing as a cougar but just a tad smaller. It's no secret that the North American Cougar is expanding it's home range. Hell, we've had 4 dead wild cougars in the state of IL. in the last 8 years. Matter of fact, the Indiana DNR just got live photos this year of one just across the river from my home town.
http://www.examiner.com/outdoor-trav...irm-with-photo
http://www.examiner.com/outdoor-trav...irm-with-photo
no i dont. i thought the article was interesting so i shared it
09-27-2010, 08:31 AM
#114
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 42
2lunger - I don't think you're beating a dead horse. The rain forest part was to simply say that the belief of if we didn't believe those animals there existed until we saw them then they didn't is a false belief. It's a false way of thinking. You are completely missing my point. My POINT is that you should not discount an animal as impossible or non existent just because you haven't seen it. That's it really lol. Three years ago I could have said that piebald deer didn't exist b/c I'd never seen it, nor seen any photo evidence of one. But they do exist, and now I have. I'm just saying, don't say something doesn't exist when there IS the possibility that it COULD. I really don't mean to keep arguing either, I just can't see saying X cannot exist b/c I've not seen any photo evidence of X. 
09-27-2010, 03:49 PM
#115
Spike
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 33
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
Live it up! Doug
Sure I'll dispute what he says, I don't care if he is a biologist or not. Like I said, he has two of these rarely seen cats treed several times in his neighborhood and there are no pictures? But he did think to take pictures of a light track that is automatically a black cat? WTF?
No you didn't answer my questions. A couple didn't apply to you but as a believer in black cats you should be able to answer the rest of them. The ones about no actual proof and all.
09-27-2010, 03:58 PM
#116
Spike
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 33
2lunger - I don't think you're beating a dead horse. The rain forest part was to simply say that the belief of if we didn't believe those animals there existed until we saw them then they didn't is a false belief. It's a false way of thinking. You are completely missing my point. My POINT is that you should not discount an animal as impossible or non existent just because you haven't seen it. That's it really lol. Three years ago I could have said that piebald deer didn't exist b/c I'd never seen it, nor seen any photo evidence of one. But they do exist, and now I have. I'm just saying, don't say something doesn't exist when there IS the possibility that it COULD. I really don't mean to keep arguing either, I just can't see saying X cannot exist b/c I've not seen any photo evidence of X.
Peoples imaginations, certain lighting and wanting to see something will often make them believe in anything, no matter what.
09-27-2010, 05:48 PM
#117
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 42
That's true that you can't discount anything. But with a quick google search you can find pics of piebald deer. Search all day for a pic of a black mountain lion and nothing. Even after all these years and thousands of sightings, no pics and no bodies. Yet tons of normal colored mountain lions.
Peoples imaginations, certain lighting and wanting to see something will often make them believe in anything, no matter what.
Peoples imaginations, certain lighting and wanting to see something will often make them believe in anything, no matter what.
09-27-2010, 05:52 PM
#118
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Kansas
Posts: 616
Sure I'll dispute what he says, I don't care if he is a biologist or not. Like I said, he has two of these rarely seen cats treed several times in his neighborhood and there are no pictures? But he did think to take pictures of a light track that is automatically a black cat? WTF?
No you didn't answer my questions. A couple didn't apply to you but as a believer in black cats you should be able to answer the rest of them. The ones about no actual proof and all.
No you didn't answer my questions. A couple didn't apply to you but as a believer in black cats you should be able to answer the rest of them. The ones about no actual proof and all.
Live it up! Doug
09-27-2010, 05:59 PM
#119
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Kansas
Posts: 616
That's true that you can't discount anything. But with a quick google search you can find pics of piebald deer. Search all day for a pic of a black mountain lion and nothing. Even after all these years and thousands of sightings, no pics and no bodies. Yet tons of normal colored mountain lions.
Peoples imaginations, certain lighting and wanting to see something will often make them believe in anything, no matter what.
Peoples imaginations, certain lighting and wanting to see something will often make them believe in anything, no matter what.
Live it up! Doug
