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 Larger Black Cat west of FW (pics of tracks included)
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01/29/08 02:35 AM
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There is a larger black cat running around Palo Pinto Co. at my girlfriends ranch. They think its a mountain lion but im not sure about the color. I haven't seen it but a few hunters there have seen it and foot prints around a tank are about the size of my fist.
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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01/29/08 03:12 AM
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Guarantee it's a black cougar. 
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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01/29/08 03:14 AM
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pretty rare?
One of their hunters hung a small buck in a tree field dressed and by the afternoon it was gone.
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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01/29/08 03:19 AM
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hang another one in a tree and wait......you might kill a jaguar, if its really black.
too bad crazyhorse isn't hear for this one.
if i had a dollar for every person who claims they've seen a black panther, i could buy a big enough bottle of whiskey to maybe start believing it. you'd think sooner or later people would actually kill one.....
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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01/29/08 03:22 AM
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pretty rare?
One of their hunters hung a small buck in a tree field dressed and by the afternoon it was gone.
Yep these are the signs and actions of a black cougar.
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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01/29/08 03:24 AM
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The first hunter that actually saw it was without a firearm so he wanted nothing to do with it.
Then my girlfriends parents saw it near a fence line at the end of their property.
So whatever it is i'd be curious. All i have seen is the foot prints and no joke they were huge.
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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So since they don't exist what are possible explantions bad lighting and a regular cougar? Or a really big bob cat?
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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01/29/08 04:23 AM
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pretty rare?
One of their hunters hung a small buck in a tree field dressed and by the afternoon it was gone.
Yep these are the signs and actions of a black cougar.
Yep! Don't listen to txnotrophy! They is real alright. Just a color phased cougar! 
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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01/29/08 02:50 PM
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All I see are black ones never any brown ones. I see them all the time 
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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01/29/08 03:00 PM
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There is definitely a possibility of it being a melanistic mountain lion. Granted the possibility exists even though nobody has ever killed one, (it would make a nice mount though). One biologist on TPWD suggests this possibility if you look into the TPWD website under black panthers.
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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01/29/08 04:52 PM
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There is definitely a possibility of it being a melanistic mountain lion. Granted the possibility exists even though nobody has ever killed one, (it would make a nice mount though). One biologist on TPWD suggests this possibility if you look into the TPWD website under black panthers.
Yep! and he's the Biologist that all the other Biologist make fun of. 
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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  well whatever color it is those are the tracks they are significantly larger than dog tracks sorry i didn't put a cellphone next to them for a index.
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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Those are not cat tracks.You will not see the claws in the track of a cat. 
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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then thats a then thats a real real big dog. Their labs prints weren't even half the size of it.
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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More than likley It is a big dog.But those are not cat tracks.
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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01/29/08 05:34 PM
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wild dogs?
Its a 600+ acre lease and thats a mile from the nearest house.
Mastiff or great dane i guess
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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Those are not cat tracks.You will not see the claws in the track of a cat.
You will if it is a black panther! That's what sets their prints apart from their lighter cousins.
Man, the ignorance on this place is rampant.
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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01/29/08 05:54 PM
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Those are not cat tracks.You will not see the claws in the track of a cat.
You will if it is a black panther! That's what sets their prints apart from their lighter cousins.
Man, the ignorance on this place is rampant.
LMAO!RIGHT!!!!!
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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01/29/08 05:59 PM
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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01/29/08 06:16 PM
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You folks are all off your rockers... That is a Grizzly Bear Track.
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A GUY SAW IT BUT DIDNT HAVE A GUN. SAME OLD GIRL IN A DIFFERENT DRESS. NO SUCH THING AS A BLACK PANTHER NOPE, NADA, NONE, ZIP, ZERO. LETS SEE THOSE PICTURES BOYS.  
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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01/30/08 03:42 AM
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I want to see the pictures of your kills this year with your bow. Are there deer in Texas? 
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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Wait, ive seen those tracks before....i saw em when i was vacationing in Mexico, the locals said they were chupacabra tracks!!
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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Those are not cat tracks.You will not see the claws in the track of a cat.
Yep! Unless the panther was chasing something. Most sightings of Black Panthers turn out to be big Farrel cats
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Re: Larger Black Cat West of Fort Worth 40ish miles
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I was fishing one time off a pier at lake Livingston when a trotliner came in with a 25lb channel cat. Later a young man in his 20's came down the pier and asked if anyone had any luck. After I told him about the catfish, he informed me that that was impossible because he had never seen a channel cat that big!!! Just because you haven't seen it, that doesn't mean it doesn't exists!!! BTW, mountain lions have the same genetic make up as jaguars, so they can suffer from the genetic disorder of melanism!!!
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