I've never seen on in the wild....

Murdered a lot of them roosting in blinds in Val Verde County. Nasty little buggers. Me and the outfitter were feeding once and one came out of the blind and was staring at us from the corner of the blind's roof. Had a Rossi .357 lever action and the the outfitter took a shot, missed the ringtail but took of a big chunk of roof. Stupid ringtail came back and stood on his hind legs to look and I shot him hitting him, square in the chest, with a 125 gr, semi-jacketed, .357 mag, hollow point. He did an Olympic class back flip completely off of the blind.

I heard they make very kool pets.....

I raised a coon....had a buddy raise a skunk...he would walk it thru the highschool halls on a leash like a dog....it was very kool pet....

They used to call them miners cats. I'd hate to try to make a pet out of one. Every one I've ever seen looked kind of mean.

Used to see them all the time around Blum. Our coon dogs wouldn't full with them for some reason. Most all I ever came in contact with smelled like a skunk.

my buddy told me to hunt a stand where he said he opened the door and a ringtail was sitting in the chair and ran out and down his arm when he opened the door. I wasn't sure I believed him until I opened the door and a ringtail was right there. So I just froze and let him run down my arm and down the ladder! It's the only Ringtail I've ever seen before or since!

plenty here in oak bottoms...
they will keep mice in check in a hunting cabin, tho...
their musk is not offensive to me, either...
sold plenty of their fur in 70s.

I grew up in the Hill Country and they were fairly common there. We had some property in Goldthwaite also and they were all over that place, especially around rock outcroppings.

yep, grew up headlighting around central TX in the '60s-'80s ... hard little boogers to find if you hit em with a white light, switched to red lens and they would stare at you walk up really close. One particular ranch had a lot of rocks, cracks, crevices and caves, it was loaded with ringtails. Their scent gland is similar to a skunk but not near as strong of a smell.

We have a regular at our barn that eats cat food. Probably every night. I won't let anyone shoot one here, they are like our little grey foxes. Good little mousers and don't hurt any livestock except maybe a chicken once in a while when my wife doesn't close their coup door.

we've got a resident ring tail that stays in either the old out house or the storage shed at my lease cabin - I've named him Steve. Other than the terds he leaves all over the storage shed me and Steve have worked out an understanding. He kills ALL of the rodents around the cabin and I let him do his thing. I'll walk into the shed during the day to get something and he just stares at me while I grab whatever I need. Occasionally I toss him some steak leftovers to let him know we're still good.

I see them fairly often. In the Hill Country and used to be lots of them around Devine in the Post Oaks. Had one as a pet when I was a kid and I must say of all the critters that I raised, this may have been the best pet of all. My Dear Mother even loved this one.
Adios,
Gary