Identify this cat??

Friend sent this picture from his back yard in Georgetown -

Hard to tell but my guess is bobcat.

Bobcat.

that is what I was thinking other than he looks to be much larger than a bobcat - may just be the picture

It has the markings of a Bobcat.

Bob

Bobcat markings, Bobcat tail, Bobcat shape.... I think it's a juvenile Cougar. Yes. Definitely a mountain lion sighting.

Has to be a mountain lion, there are millions of them now. Little ranchitos in subdivisions are loaded with nowadays.
















































J/K Bobcat 100%

BIG Bobcat

It is without question a bobcat.

Bob.
Adios,
Gary

Big ol' Bob

Black panther!

Bob Cat

robert cat

Looks like a Bob and does “appear” big but nothing in the pic to offer any reference for size.

CLEARLY A JAGUAR!!!!

Putty Tat

Robert Gato

Bobcat

Bob for sure

MNT LION!!! and I'll fight you over it!!

Hey…..it has spots!!!

Obviously a Bob and it is funny to hear the stories on them.

Live in a high density neighborhood in N. Dallas, there is a small creek to the west of us, a while back my wife said one of her friends who's backyard backs up to this creek saw a full grown Mountain lion walking along the bank.
I told my wife it had to of been a Bobcat but she said that they were positive it was a Mountain Lion

Ehhh...you never know.

Robert Cat

That subdivision is right on the edge of the hill country and I bet there are plenty of deer that run around that neighborhood , no deer anywhere close to my casa.

If you exclude suburbs of major metropolitan cities that have deer running around, I bet the chances are pretty darn slim.

The only place in Dallas city proper I would think would have a chance at having a big cat would be around the trinity river bottoms or maybe White Rock creek below the dam that feeds into the Trinity river?

Yup, that is a couple of miles away from us and we are right on the edge of the hill country.

Back a couple of years, had some friends nearby in a sub division with multi acre lots and a runway. They told stories of hearing what sounded like a big cat at nite and found the remains of the deer the next day. I understand these cats have quite the range.

Back to the OP--definitely Bob the cat.

Our deer lease a few years back - after a big rain and going in the dark to my stand I crawled out after the hunt and I found a bunch of lion tracks all around my stand - gets your attention for sure

and NO that is not a collar around his neck - a reflection from the camera picture - we saw him live a couple of times

Leander is still very much in the Hill Country, just down 183 from Cedar Park....heading West out of Austin. Any and all property in Travis/Williamson Counties could be attractive to Mountain Lions,they've been there for many, many years. And Mountain Lions don't feed exclusively on Deer, so don't make that one of your requirements for their existence in any particular spot.

Agree Mountain Lions do not feed exclusively on deer nor was I implying that, they are opportunity hunters (pigs, livestock, rabbits etc. and will scavenge animal carcass from road kill or?).
BTW right or wrong if I want to make something one of my requirements I will regardless, when you become one of the states leading authorities on mountain lions I will certainly take your advice, until then do not make your opinions a requirement of fact for anyone else's opinion

My point is/was that deer are and have been a main food supply, where there is a lot of deer in an area there is a better chance that a lion might venture that way.
With hogs spreading all over the state and into the suburbs where deer do not live, I would guess that has helped the mountain lion expand its normal ranges and population.

I guess technically Leander is in what is considered the hill country, the city itself isn't very hilly and most everything to its east is flat except a few pockets of hills, not what one thinks of as the hill country.