US Officials Declare Eastern Cougar Extinct

William Parcher said:
Are you saying that you saw a really big black domestic cat (Felis catus)?
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I didn't see a kitty collar or bell....but I guess he/she could have slipped their collar or it could have been a black collar with no bell....
You've given me alot to think about!
 
William Parcher said:
Could have been feral or stray without any collar ever.

You are pulling my leg, right?
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Of course I am LOL!
Maybe this will help
The creature I saw was standing on the edge of a field next to a road.
When I first saw it was about a block and a half away.. I braked hard thinking it was a dog about to cross the road which was a two lane country road.
The first thing that caught my attention was as it came into the road was how it moved it didn't run but made that "quick kitty cat walk", then I noticed the tail was almost as long as the body and the sum of the two spanned one lane.

At that point I floored it hoping to get a better look (or maybe hit it) but it made it into the woods on the other side of the road. The other thing I did not see was a snout.
As to your line of questioning...I don't have the expertise to determine the difference between a black cougar or black cat both the size of large dog.
 
First you said that the cat was the size of a Labrador retriever dog. Now you say it (with tail) was as long as a road lane.

:boggled:
 
One thing to keep in mind, and I'm sure this has been mentioned but I'm not reading back over the whole thread, is that Cougars, Mountain Lions, or whatever name you want to call Puma concolor, do not come in a black phase. There's never been one born in a zoo, killed by a hunter, or successfully captured on camera (this sounds familiar).

So if people truly are seeing large black cats, they can only be exotic Leopards or Jaguars (which do have a black phase) that have been released or escaped somehow.
 
There has never been any evidence or photos of melanistic Panthera living in North America despite hundreds of anecdotal witness reports. It's like Bigfoot in the form of a huge black cat.
 
Puppies, sub-adults, adults, which direction are they facing?
 
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Certainly wide enough for farm trucks and such. Probably 9 to 11 feet wide, not including any shoulder.
 
It's quite popular among Pennsylvania hunters (actually, just the small sample of them that I know personally) to claim that cougars do indeed live in PA and any claim to the contrary is a conspiracy by the PA Game Commission. For my own part, I have spent a lot of time out in the woods, some of it in very remote areas, and have never seen sign or track.
 
I don't think they would get along with the yotes that bigfoot keeps as pets
 
Here is a nice article written by a Certified Wildlife Biologist, Private Lands Program Coordinator, from the Division of Wildlife Management in North Carolina. He explains how there is no evidence whatsoever for black panthers or cougars in North Carolina.

But the best part is the comment section where the common folk open up a cornucopia of big cat sightings. The way these people talk, it might actually be dangerous to say in public that there are no black panthers or cougars in NC.


A Delusional Hillbilly said:
sorry to bust your bubble, but my wife and neighbors have seen big black cats around our home multiple times. we live about 3 miles from nc line in tn. I have tracked them with dogs. if it wasn't a federal crime to admit you shot one, you might be surprised at how many "delusional hillbillies" could show you proof that black panthers are alive and well in the Appalachians. think about it... you say they don't exist, if we prove they do exist by showing you one, we get arrested for killing an endangered species.
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If they kill one in an area, that's still not evidence they are in an area because it might have been the last one. It seems an odd way to count a population - by killing the members of that population.
 
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