Black Cats?

[horshur]

I have never seen one myself, but I have two friends that have seen what they said was a large black cat about the size of a good sized labrador dog in the broad daylight.

One fellow was bowhunting and he was in New Mexico and he was in a ground blind and he observed this cat for about 15 minutes at about 150 yards. It was out in the sagebrush and he said it's back was above the sage and it was fairly tall for the type of sage we have here. this guy is not prone to big stories and he has been on quite a few lion hunts and seen lions in the tree.

the other guy was driving thru central Wyoming, and he observed this coal black cat stalking several antelope that were on the down wind side of the fill of a small stock pond. He said the animal appeared to weight about 60-70 pounds. he said about the size of a yearling female lion. this guy has seen many lions and even has a giant tom in the record books. So I don't know I am still waiting to see my first one.

I was contacted about 10 years ago by a British News Agency out of London. They asked if i would be interested in coming to Great Britain and bringing some of my trained lion dogs and seeing If I could track down a black panther that had been seen and photographed and even videoed. It was an interesting offer but it meant I would have to take a several month sebatical from my work and then quarantine my dogs before and after the trip. I just couldn't make it work but I spoke numerous times with the reporter who was trying to arrange the trip. I don't beleive they ever got a US hunter to go over and chase the thing.

Mike I know a BC Guy that went over there then...A trapper. He was in on some show about it they even had a TV crew over from britain here in BC doing a shoot and then of course over there as well.

[Mike Leonard]

Horshur,

thanks for the info. yes probably a lot less red tape for a Canadian hunter to do it. did the ever confirm there was truely a black panther or whatever ?

[Tracknthetrail]

There is an old timer down here in south Texas that I met a few months back that swears he has pictures of some black cats, he is pushing 70 now and we hit it off cause we both cut our teeth cat hunting in the Davis mountains of west Texas while going to school at Sul Ross.....30 years apart, so I would think he would have no reason to lie about a black cat. He and I did some trading.....well I gave him a product and he owes payment and or one of his pups that was just born, anyhow I could give a shit about the payment, I want to see the pictures and hunt his ranch where these said cats are. If I get the chance to make that happen I will share the pictures!

[horshur]

Horshur,

thanks for the info. yes probably a lot less red tape for a Canadian hunter to do it. did the ever confirm there was truely a black panther or whatever ?

Mike I am sorry for whatever reason I never looked at this thread again to read your reply......No Pete did not find any evidence of a big cat .

[englishhunter]

is it a black panther that is cool.from englishhunter

[15samorr]

I dont believe in them have to see it for myself

[sheimer]

So Dean, let me get this straight.....You bought it from a guy and died it black? It was supposedly caught in California?

Just making sure it got the story correct so when I pass it on to some unsuspecting stranger they get all the facts.

Scott

[treetalkingjp]

Call me crazy but I have treed one coon hunting ! It had yellow eyes and it screamed like a woman . I hear about every year on the rock cliffs above my house during deer rutting season I actually had a aunt run over one . And they are around and I know first hand they will eat a house dog! I know first hand

:justin

[FullCryHounds]

[treetalkingjp]

Look just like that . Big yellow eyes was not a good sight when I threw the k-light up I saw em and then he bailed .

[kiwi]

There are some people over here in Oz that think they are here, legend has it that US servicemen bought them over as mascots and let them rather than take them home
Vic was seriously spotlighted years ago when fox skins were worth a lot of money , Had they been around , i'm sure one would have been shot , now the place is full of trail cameras and still no evidence
Good luck finding them over there

[bowtech36]

Call me crazy but I have treed one coon hunting ! It had yellow eyes and it screamed like a woman . I hear about every year on the rock cliffs above my house during deer rutting season I actually had a aunt run over one . And they are around and I know first hand they will eat a house dog! I know first hand

:justin

No pictures?

[Big N' Blue]

I sure like this thread resurfacing every so often!!

Sure enjoy reading about all these encounters!

[treetalkingjp]

No pictures?[/quote]


No we didn't shoot it, my neighbor named Jessie said he wouldn't go to jail for killing one . But ill try and get some pics , I know when my uncle kills hogs and throws the carcasses away it takes about a day and they are buried with leaves and stuff so ill set my trail cam up next time.

[Warner5]

Back when I was still a coon hunter, And hunting cougar with dogs was legal in oregon I had my fair share of luck catching the big cats with coon dogs. This led to a discussion with an older local fella, this guy was respected in the community as a cat skinner(a road builder) Logger, rancher and Hunter. My dogs had ran more deer across his field than I care to admit, but they had also treed their fair share of good game and the rancher knew it.

He got a kick out of me chasing those dogs across his field, but respected my determination. My respect for him was apparent, so when he talked I listened. He knew I had seen cougars before, so he told me a story. He had seen many cougar, killed them all and thought them a varmint. What he told me next I have never forgotten.

One morning in the crummy on the way to work. He had seen a panther, just past island camp ground up the river road. The only black cougar he had ever seen. I believed him then and I still do now. Rhom Grant, dosent need to make up stories for people to listen, expecially a 16 year old kid. I took the dogs out every chance I got, to find Rhom's black panther. But in '94, oregon passed that law and my cougar hunting days were over. John.