I've been reading about these black cats on here since before I was a member .I told this story one time and it shut that thread down.Let's see if I can get a better result this time. A man who worked for Goodyear in Gadsden was a big coonhunter all throu the sixties.He and his sons treed and killed a big black cat in the flatwoods area of Etowha,St. Clair county in the mid to late sixties.They gave the carcass to a taxidermy shop in Gadsden.They cut off a front paw to show everybody .I personally saw and held the paw in my hand the morning after it was killed.I wish someone could check the archives at the Gadsden Times from that era to see if they could find a record of it.