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East Texas Mountain Lion or Black Panther Sightings/ Killings
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When I was about 10 or so, I heard one behind our house one night. Talk about give you the willies. My uncle said he saw one one evening while running his dogs on a timber plantation by his house. Another on reported just up the road from us in some friends pasture right off the highway. All this was on 255 from colmesneil to jasper. When I was in high school, supposedly someone's horse was killed by one behind the sheriffs office in woodville. They are there, that thick timber will hide more things than you know it.
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I'm always perplexed when someone says there is NO such thing as a black panther in Texas.
There may not be a "natural native black cat" in Texas but CERTAINLY someone could have released a black cat pet (or 2 or 3 or 10) and they could be around or even mated.
"Some" of the people who claimed to see them might not be lying. They may have really seen one.
I have a rancher cousin in Grayson county who says he sees one on his property about 1 or 2 times a year. He isn't a drunk. Never lies and is a church going dude I believe him.
It is NOT impossible that a black cat is roaming Texas without being on a trail cam. Have you ever seen albino horny toads? Or a baby dove? Doesn't mean they don't exist.
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I was shown a TC pic 3yrs ago of one at about 40' out. It was walking directly under the feeder so there was clear reference as to size.
I would like to say I am very knowledgeable about wildlife in my areas and if this was not a black cougar, it was DARK CHOCOLATE colored.
I have seen a cougar(mt. lion, same thing) in the wild in California as well as in zoos and my field guide to N. American mammals and what I was shown is definately a cougar in east Texas.
The place the pic was taken is off of FM 14 in wood county just NW of Holly Lake.
That is about 20 miles, as the crow flies from my lease and WAYYYY to close for my comfort !
As of now, I have seen no sign of them(prints, scratching posts,kills) out there and I really don't know what I'd do if I did.
Those are about the only critters that make me nervous to be out in the woods after dark !
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Interesting thread.... never thought about that... but come to think of it the only big cat ive seen that black are jaguars. Not lions... wasnt there talk about the jags in nexici moving north into texas... or sone other kind of big cat thats not a regular mountain lion..
For the record... mountain lion is some darn good eatin!!!!!
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