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Re: Big Cat
[Re: Hogwild]
#651854
08/17/13 06:43 AM
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Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 9,804 North Jackson
ridgestalker
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I've always thought it was funny how we have a closed season on a animal that doesn't exist.Why don't they include buffalo,elk etc. What makes that cat different? Could it be they know more than they let on?
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Re: Big Cat
[Re: jlbuc10]
#651861
08/17/13 06:50 AM
08/17/13 06:50 AM
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Joined: May 2009
Posts: 3,726 Harvest, AL
AU coonhunter
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I figured there would be some genetic differences. I they're all the same what makes the Florida panther endangered and mountain lions, or any other painter like cats not endangered? Florida panthers(Puma conculor coryi) are a subspecies of cougar(Puma conculor). So there are genetic differences there. Mountain lion, cougar, puma, panther are just all common names for a big tan cat.
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Re: Big Cat
[Re: Hogwild]
#651878
08/17/13 07:39 AM
08/17/13 07:39 AM
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Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 1,749 Baldwin County, AL
longspur69
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I've said this in another post, but I DID kill one as a young teenager in Dale County. My little terrier used to tree all kinds of stuff behind our house and, around the swamp I grew up next to. One night my parents were gone and she treed something right behind the house over a small creek that drained into the swamp. As usual, I grabbed my gun and a head lamp (grew up coon hunting), and headed out expecting to find a coon or possum. The tree was leaning at about 45 degrees and about 10 to 15 feet off the ground there was a huge cat. It had spots like a bobcat, but was significantly larger. It also had a long tail with rings around it. Being a kid and wanting to put my hands on it, I shot it. I took it home and put it in our deepfreezer. My dad would've killed me if he'd found out I killed that thing. The next day, a friend of mine came by to see it. He took it to his stepdad who was supposedly going to have it mounted. None of us had any idea what it was. We just knew it was way too big to be a bobcat and had tail that was as long as the cat itself. Later, as an adult, I saw a special on lions on tv. It was showing the juveniles have spots, and it was then obvious to me what I'd killed.
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Re: Big Cat
[Re: Hogwild]
#651898
08/17/13 08:10 AM
08/17/13 08:10 AM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 9,565 Cape San Blas, Florida
Deadwood
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I believe in the possibility of resident big cats in Alabama. That said, There used to be a guy at Collinsville Flea Market in the late '90's that had big cats for sale. Maybe somebody bought one and got sick of keeping it after awhile. There are just too many sightings to dismiss out of hand.
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Re: Big Cat
[Re: Frankie]
#651899
08/17/13 08:15 AM
08/17/13 08:15 AM
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Posts: 138 Tallahatta
arrowslinger84
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loins and one got loose and killed he's wife . you just never know ???
I know what your saying. One of my loins almost killed my fiance the other night. She didnt back down though. lol
"Thank GOD the Government shut down is over so we can get back to the Government letdown." Phil Robertson
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Re: Big Cat
[Re: arrowslinger84]
#651906
08/17/13 08:29 AM
08/17/13 08:29 AM
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Posts: 15,859 Elmore County
Frankie
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loins and one got loose and killed he's wife . you just never know ???
I know what your saying. One of my loins almost killed my fiance the other night. She didnt back down though. lol so , i guess you're saying i'm full of sh!t . right ???
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Re: Big Cat
[Re: Hogwild]
#651912
08/17/13 08:41 AM
08/17/13 08:41 AM
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Posts: 138 Tallahatta
arrowslinger84
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No I was making fun of u.
"Thank GOD the Government shut down is over so we can get back to the Government letdown." Phil Robertson
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Re: Big Cat
[Re: Hogwild]
#651930
08/17/13 09:14 AM
08/17/13 09:14 AM
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Posts: 138 Tallahatta
arrowslinger84
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Jeez! I was about say " pics or it didn't happen" well played sir. Chive On...
"Thank GOD the Government shut down is over so we can get back to the Government letdown." Phil Robertson
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Re: Big Cat
[Re: Hogwild]
#651983
08/17/13 11:03 AM
08/17/13 11:03 AM
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Posts: 1,940 Huntsviille, al.35816
Blackhawk
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i think we have killed this cat issue,bu i remember as a kid huting skyline and wanting to see a deer so bad i almost shot a stump it was still dark , not first light yet and i thought i saw it move, then once it got more daylight i could make it out better then i saw it was a stump. didn't see any deer just squirrel , what i am saying your mind can play games on you by what you thought you saw:)i was 14 back then.i am 60 now. that was a day or two ago.
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Re: Big Cat
[Re: Hogwild]
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08/17/13 11:23 AM
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Posts: 12,788 Thomasville, AL
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I have seen a big cat. Actually, saw it twice about a year and a couple of miles apart. It was in the late 80's and both sightings were on the back side of the Scotch WMA, around Goat Hill the 1st time and near Phillips Crossing the next time. We were coon hunting both times and I am absolutely certain of what we saw. The 1st time, he just crouched down and slunk away watching his shadow ahead of him in the lights. The next time, he was in the ditch of the dirt road and he quickly turned his head from the lights and then sprung up the bank and ran away as we got close. It was a deep tan, almost chestnut and I can understand where in low light people would claim it was black.
I have not seen one since, or any indication of one. BUT, I am quite sure of what we saw then!
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Re: Big Cat
[Re: spy]
#652000
08/17/13 11:42 AM
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Posts: 4,100 Grant, Alabama, USA
TR
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Posts: 4,100
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Black cats are just like bigfoot if they were out there someone would have killed one already. to many guns and hunters in the south! Remember not everyone goes by the law thus some outlaw would have shot one by now. Many outlaws are smarter than to show it off. I firmly believe there are black cats out there. I know that the biologists say they don't exist but I know too many trustworthy people just like some of the folks on here that are not making it up and are not mistaken. They are here and some have been killed, but they don't go showin them off. It is just a matter of time before someone comes out with a good picture and/or a dead one. It will happen.
"Make a difference, take a kid hunting".
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Re: Big Cat
[Re: TR]
#652057
08/17/13 01:16 PM
08/17/13 01:16 PM
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Posts: 34,438 Boxes Cove
2Dogs
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Black cats are just like bigfoot if they were out there someone would have killed one already. to many guns and hunters in the south! Remember not everyone goes by the law thus some outlaw would have shot one by now. Many outlaws are smarter than to show it off. I firmly believe there are black cats out there. I know that the biologists say they don't exist but I know too many trustworthy people just like some of the folks on here that are not making it up and are not mistaken. They are here and some have been killed, but they don't go showin them off. It is just a matter of time before someone comes out with a good picture and/or a dead one. It will happen. My understanding is a solid black panther would have to be a black Leopard and the only way there is one of those running around Alabama is if he came from a zoo or circus. I believe there could be ,a few Mt. Lions or Fla. Panthers but I ain't buying the big jet black panther/leopard.
"Why do you ask"?
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