That is a picture of a house cat. A friend sent me a couple pics the other day taken with game camera next to a hog trap near here in San Antonio area. It was a Jaguarundi.

Really? A house cat? Come on!

It doesn’t look like it’s in a house to me.

I'm scary are y'all scary

Jaguarundi look NOTHING like a house-cat (except they both have tails).

Anyone getting a good look at one would/should immediately recognize the difference.

Always amazed at the number of house-cat pictures that get posted on the internet each year by folks claiming they are anything from Black Panthers...to you name it.

Is that there a house cat......

You really do not see a house cat when you look at your pic!?!?!?

I've seen one Jaguarundi in my life and it was a brown phase, this was not far from El Indio. If seen you will not mistake it for any other species of feline. OK strike that! I've seen dozens of house cat photo's on here with people thinking it's something else.

That's better.

I saw what I think could have been one in southwestern Crockett county during hunting season 2 years ago right at dark. I saw something under the feeder that I figured was a coon until I looked thru my binoculars to see what was some form of cat with an excessively long tail and very dark in color but way too small for a mountain lion. I got my phone to take a picture but it was way too dark to make anything out from ~100 yards away. It stayed under the feeder until I couldn't see anything due to darkness. I had to do some research to see if I could figure out what it might have been and a Jaguarundi was the only thing I found. We aren't more than 40-50 miles from Mexico.

but I agree, that picture earlier in the thread looks to be a house cat

That is a feral cat. It's coat is way too long to be a jag. Now, for the REAL story...

https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/species/jag/

http://www.businessinsider.com/endangered-jaguarundi-returns-to-texas-2014-1

Can't tell much from that picture but, if your a hunter I believe you......

so if you see one you cant shoot it ?

I saw one when I was a teenager, rounding up goats on a ranch between Sonora and Del Rio. I had no idea what it was, but could tell it obviously wasn't a house cat, bobcat, or mountain lion. It was black with a long tail. The old Mexican ranch hand with me recognized it immediately.