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Freak of Nature
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Interesting but they didn't mention black painters. Myth
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Mildly Quirky
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Because black panthers don't exist? Yep.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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Freak of Nature
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But, but, feller I work with, BIL's, mother saw a black painter cross highway 79 couple years ago.
"Why do you ask"?
Too many people spend money they don't have , on things they don't need, to impress people they don't know.
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Booner
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Not sure if it qualifies, but there are, indeed, panthers in NW Florida. I saw one around 1990 around Eglin AFB. My parents saw one about two years ago. Rare but definitely present.
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
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Booner
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Not sure if it qualifies, but there are, indeed, panthers in NW Florida. I saw one circa 1990 around Eglin AFB. My parents saw one about two years ago. Rare but definitely present.
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
-G. K. Chesterton
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Freak of Nature
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Well Mark you know they know where the State Line is and stay out of Alabama.
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Booner
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Well Mark you know they know where the State Line is and stay out of Alabama. Exactly! And there is no way in Hell that one in TN would dare to take that treacherous step across our Northern boundary!!!
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Freak of Nature
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somewhere in my junk I have an old VHS TTTTTape of a BIG cougar walking across a prairie greenfield just north of Montgomery. Broad daylight, good clear video. I believe it to be a true and accurate video. Would of been 1985 er so.
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I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
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muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Puts sugar in his cornbread!
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Puts sugar in his cornbread!
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Haters. I guess cougars, panthers or big cats in Alabama are about the same as the nonrealistic female orgasm. 
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6 point
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I don't know about black ones, but there are certainly the regular golden variety. I saw one in Chilton County in 2007. middle of the day. i entered the woods and it was on a low tree limb about 30 yards away. it ran down the tree and away from me down a deer trail. this was open woods in the winter. I threw the gun up and watched him run off for 100 yards. 100% confident in what animal it was. much larger than a bobcat. long tail. just a mountain lion. nothing else. I had caught a quick glimpse of it in the truck headlights a few nights before when I went to the farm to feed horses. checked the ditch and saw prints in the mud. obvious large cat prints. no claws. deep enough to show if they were out.
I remember going to Tigers for Tomorrow several years ago. They have a pen with mountain lions in it. they said they have come to feed them in the morning and found mountain lion track on the OUTSIDE of the pen... where the wild ones have come to visit. they claim to have heard the captive and the wild ones calling to each other across the valley.
I used to know a guy back home in South Carolina that shot one. The state said they didn't exist. He swore one was eating his goats. The game warden said it wasn't possible. He shot it in his back yard a couple of weeks later with his wife filming it. He handed over the video and the dead cat to the game warden. They still swear they don't exist. He said that he got the impression that they don't want them to there... at least not public. There aren't many, and they are afraid people will freak out if they think there is a problem. There are so few that it's easier to just explain each single one away with a better story.
I don't know about all of that.... but I know 100% that I saw one in Chilton county and had plenty of time to watch it run off starting at 30 yards.
-Keith
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All these sightings and not a single picture. We got game cams and iPhones in every corner of the state. Still not a single solitary picture 
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Yall ever seen a otter cat may be what some people saw when the say they seen a panther
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I thought this was about timbers mom.
Do you want to hear him gobble, or do you want to kill him.
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4 point
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I saw a black painter about half way up a ladder over at my neighbors house. Looked like he was working on the soffet.
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Booner
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My FIL has a farm in forkland and he and my BIL have seen cougars down there on several occasions.
When I need expert advice I tend to talk to myself
The older I get the better I used to be
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Booner
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I saw a black painter about half way up a ladder over at my neighbors house. Looked like he was working on the soffet. Yeah. I see them detailing cars on the way to work too.
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
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I know I've seen one even had pictures of the tracks bigger than the palm of my hand I wish I could find them. I never went back near there without a gun again. I didn't report it to anyone because if I ever saw it again it would have been a dead one.
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My FIL has a farm in forkland and he and my BIL have seen cougars down there on several occasions. Sounds like my kind of farm!!!!
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