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Ok y'all tell me what y'all think. A few days ago a good friend that I work with called me and told me they were workIng on his brothers house and were standing around takin a break and seen a solid black cat about 2-2/12 foot tall with about a 4 foot long tail walk out of the  creek walk down the fence line and jump the fence and disappear into the field. All three of these guys I trust and know they didn't make it up, two days later another guy that we work with had gotten some new baby goats. Last night he heard the goats screaming ran outside with a spot light and saw a large black cat jumping out of his goat pen. He lives less than a mile away from where they saw the  Cat a few days ago?

The Infamous Black Panther strikes again!

Sounds like its time to turn some hounds loose and tree him

Catch it!

get ahead uhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Lol many people don't believe it when you say there are panthers but I do. We already had that long discussion on here once haha they have been around our place before

Well I believe that they are deff out there. Awhile back had another friend that I haven't talked to in two years call me wanting to know of I was still predator hunting a lot cuz he had seen a big black cat cross his pasture. He sent me a pic of it that je took with his cell phone. It was deff a large black animal built like a cat . This was about 5 miles from where the guys seen that one this week. Im thinking maybe a jaguarundi ?

I saw one years ago. It was off the property so I did not shoot it. I really wish I would have shot that cat because of all the trash I have heard about it. I can say for sure that if I ever see another one I will shoot it and I don't care if it is in front of city hall. Then at my trial they will have to show pictures of a dead big black cat for every one to see.

There isin any pieces of land big enough to drop hounds on in the area where they have seen it. I'm thinking about doing a little calling over there tho!

I have seen a large cat with a long tail in southeast AR. It was early morning and a Lil foggy and at distance but not to far. I was looking thru a 3x9 scope and it appeared to be black. I didn't shoot that day but if it ever happens again I will have physical proof of something.

We measured a track on our place in east texas 4 3/4 long and 4 2/4 wide

I've seen one!

Ive never seen a black one but I have without a doubt seen mtn lions/cougar/panther or whatever you wanna call em in southeast texas. There are way too many people who say that they HAVE seen a black one for me to not believe that they are out there.....i do agree its a hell of a coincidence that 1 has never been killed but still....too many people say that they have seen one for me to believe otherwise!

We've heard them at night and our neighbors jumped one up in the pasture next door when the weeds were real tall. Scared them to death

  Did big foot have the black cat on a lead ?

     Mountain lion sure. Black cat ? Never been proof.

I tell everybody we don't really hog hunt, we are actually looking for the infamous SQUATCH. Haven't got him yet but I swear we had him bayed one night.

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According to a biologist I have talked to, there has never been any recorded proof that a mountain lion has a black color phase. Now a jaguar or a leopard does have a black color phase so maybe a escapee from captivity is on the loose. I have lived all over the country & I have heard stories about a black panther that has been seen in the area.
  Another option, I have run russian hogs that I saw cross the road & thought they were black but when we caught them were that rusty reddish brown color, so alot of times animals seen in shadows do look black.
  I wish we had more of them, I would love to tree one with my hounds, not to kill it but just to get some photos.
  Another thing, talk to any lion hunter & they will tell you, lions just are not very vocal, they will hiss & growl when treed, but scream, never.

Well believe what you will I've seen one at about 15yds on my bow stand black and a big cat proof enough for me to believe them I saw it. Its also illegal to kill one in wildlife pamphlet how is it illegal to kill something that doesn't exist?

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Ues they are aroumd..very few i think.  bit never the less they do exist weather or not they were born in captivity and escaped or not.  like i said in the last black cat post we knew i guy in bridgeport texas bout 15 years ago that had big cat sancuary bout 5 miles from natural gas plant half of his cats escaped how idk but they did.

I would have a hard time believing it. You talk to old time cat hunters that have treed thousands of cats and they have never seen one. One guy used to live on the New Mexico border and have treed and photo proof of jaguars and never seen a black one.

I equate it to most of the people that tell you they have hogs on there property that are "way over 500lbs" and when the strings are put on them they are 1/2 that size.

Well I know we aren't crazy, and we have seen one (both my husband AND I) on three occasions over this way. I believe they're out there.

Si on DD claims he's seen them before http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SlcMQUXawAU

I've always heard of black ones around where i was raised but I don't know Why no one has killed a black one. maybe a black house cat over fed by a couple cat loving homos? I would never believe they could get as big as they do until i went with my mom to visit her gay cousin. say what you want about em...... they know how to fatten a cat. 40 lbs easy. lol I think its the same as Sasquatch some one would have killed one by now if they weren't a  heavenly being with super natural powers, but then the person making the claim is really the only one who does know for sure. Unless their eyes lied.

One day Im'a catch that black cat along with the big hairy ape that walks Matagorda county. I have had on more than one occasion someone tell me about one or the other. Well I am in the woods more in a year than most folks will ever be in their lives, so if it is there I will see it and I will kill it. Till then no dice for me, I don't believe it.

a bad acid trip with hallucinations of black panthers...bigfoots and chupacabras...it's possible...  :'(

im with cajun on this one i dont believe its a such thing as a black panther its to many people out and about, hunting and just about every other tree has a game camera on them now and still no one has a picture ??? its like the whole ufo thing no one has proof but a few people say they seen a light or something. i just dont think they are out there just a myth

Now nobody is saying it is a cougar just a large black cat. Leapords come of from Mexico and they can be black. I personally think the black cats are leapords and not cougars. I was looking at the one I saw through a scope and the light was not behind it. It was so black that when I first looked I thought it was a lost cow until the tail came up. I was down close to Mexico and the shot would have been across a traveld public road, unto a Federal Game Life Refuge and the Game Warden Station was less than two miles away. I talked to them and they said that he had so many people say they saw the cat that he knew there was one. But he thought it was a leapord and not a puma (cougar). It stayed on the refuge and never left a track on our lease like it knew where it was safe.

Not a big cat but just last month right at barker cypress and spring cypress there was a large bobcat or small cougar. If you google that area its crazy to see that on the road. Even u-turned with my wife just to make shure...

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I believe it. I've only seen one before and it was on a night hunt and all we had was a .22 revolver :-\
My buddy was going to shoot it and I said all ur gunna do I piss it off!! This was a large cat well over 6 ft from head to tail. The dogs were acting like little girls when they came by us (whimpering) so of course we had to see what it was (thinking it was a big snake or something we could shoot). But we were very surprised to see this huge black cat standing up on a fallen tree log. We backed out and headed to the opposite side of the property and let him have his space. We carry alot more fire power now just in case he wants to have another stand down ;D

i saw bigfoot walking behind my house the other day.

and every one who thinks there are no black panthers they need to go stick their head up their butt

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I work and hunt on a ranch in McDade Texas. Always heard stories of the mountain lion roaming the hills there. But now I'm for sure a believer. About two years ago I'd say 6 miles from the place my step dad and I saw a big brown cat run across the road, his body took up the whole lane and his tail was long and stretched out with one little curl in the tip. My boss(landowner) told me the neighboring landowners who moved into the place 4 years ago had two colts killed by a mountain lion. He saw the colts bodies and they're necks were shredded, he said it looked like something you would see in a horror story.now in the past month my bosses brother and his wife have seen him from about 200 yards walking the tree line on the ranch. And I have taken pictures of his tracks! Just to let y'all know I have a size 13 foot so the track is very large. No claws indicating a coyote or dog also. My boss also just had a mare have a colt. We are suspecting that's why he has been snooping around. And an old woman who lives two places down was sitting on her back porch swing and saw a big brown cat walk around her barn. Look at her, then walk back into the woods. Hunting on the place alone at night can get pretty spooky!

I've seen one at are place. Not real big but had a tail about 4 ft

Well don't shoot him I would hate to hear someone went to jail because they shot someone in a monkey suit

Curcross1987 I'm Gona catch him and sell him to the zoo.       But as far as black cats I have no doubt in my mind they are there

PARTY at Reubens lol!

panthers and cougars are all around us, we just don't see them often. they are very good at hiding and u just never know where they are, just be carefull when you go out at night

met a cougar at the grocery store just the other day...verry dangerous

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Yep...and if your not careful you will be a trophy display...another cougar statistic...just stick with the grocery shopping list and will we be just fine...  ;)

Very seldom do you ever find anyone from the West that has ever laid eyes on a cat other than in a tree r bayed by a dog...I have been blessed to see 5 of these great animals here in East Tx. had a large orangeish red male in my scope Jan before last...although I have never saw a black one my 80 year old longtime hunting partner who some on here can back me up on this has hunted lions in the west on his on large ranch behind his on hounds sat and watched a large black cat only 30 yards from him slow stalking/creeping upon a deer in the middle of a wide lane logging rd in his pine plantation not very long ago....don't tell him he didn't see a black cat unless you are ready for battle...I could tell many tales of that same cat plus years of others from trusted reliable woodsmen...here is a deer killed within a couple hundred yards of our house...and a cat track in the same area...we also know for a fact that they are raising here and have been for many years...all you have to do to find a cat around here is find where the biggest population of hogs and deer are...the track pictures are not that great but they were very distinguishable to the eye 4 3/4 inches...Ray
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Oh and as for them screaming they may growl in a tree but I can assure you them big yellow ones cann screaming like banshee

Yessir folks say there aren't any Mtn Lions around here, Matagorda, but I say why not? They got everything they need, food, cover, water, and big ranches to hide on. I don't see why they wouldn't be here... Now a black panther.... Ain't never gonna believe it till I see a dead one from here!!! And I mean as in from TX not from South America.

if any of y'all know where one is at. I'll put my male Dogo on them... might as well

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