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re: Co-worker said he saw a black panther earlier today
Posted on 8/30/18 at 2:27 pm to NWLAtiger55
Posted on 8/30/18 at 2:27 pm to NWLAtiger55
There are black panthers in the Sabine River swamp. Saw one with my own eyes. They could be dark colored pumas but it definitely wasn’t tan.
This post was edited on 8/30/18 at 2:32 pm
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Posted on 8/30/18 at 2:28 pm to NWLAtiger55
I have seen a tan cougar/mountain lion about 14 years ago. I was driving south bound on I-49 when I saw the cat on the edge of the median and woods. This was somewhere between the Woodworth and Forest Hill exits. I can tell you first hand that’s a big cat.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 2:28 pm to NWLAtiger55
Jaguarundi
Posted on 8/30/18 at 2:36 pm to Bow dude72
My dad has a friend that has coon hounds. He said his dogs ran a tan cougar up a tree. He said the growls were really loud growls. He grabbed his dogs and hauled arse! This was near Crowley/Egan 2 years ago.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 2:48 pm to BOSCEAUX
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There are black panthers in the Sabine River swamp. Saw one with my own eyes. They could be dark colored pumas but it definitely wasn’t tan.
I'm going with really dark. We had a panther on our deer lease in Allen Parish years ago. It most definitely was a giant fricking cat, but it wasn't the usual tan of a panther and it definitely wasn't black. Like a really reddish/rusty brown color.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 2:50 pm to TigerstuckinMS
Darn right they are big!
Posted on 8/30/18 at 2:51 pm to NWLAtiger55
LINK
Growing up in NE LA I had several encounters with big cats crossing pastures, rice fields or roads at night. Sometimes the color is so dark that at night it looks black, especially in headlights.
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Although the department has received many calls about black panthers, there has never been a documented case of a black cougar anywhere in North America.
Growing up in NE LA I had several encounters with big cats crossing pastures, rice fields or roads at night. Sometimes the color is so dark that at night it looks black, especially in headlights.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 2:57 pm to NWLAtiger55
I have photos of a black "panther" at the Turpentine Creek big cat refuge. I guess they are technically a leopard.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 3:33 pm to NWLAtiger55
A few years ago I was driving the gravel roads on a 7000 acre waterfowl sanctuary where I early season bow hunt. Just idling along, looking for deer movement. Left side of the gravel road is a drainage ditch, dug to drain some of this bottom land, it's 10-12 feet wide.
I see something black as night in the road. At first I thought it was a trash bag. Soon I can tell it is an animal, walking away from me. This thing is probably 100-150 yards from me. I just keep idling, gaining on it all the time.
By the time I get within about 60-75 yards, I'd say, I think it hears me. It turns it's head to the left, and although I'm too far away to see any real details, it is the perfect outline of a cat. When it turns it's head, it's body follows a little and I can see this thing's tail. The tail looked like it was as long as it's body.
By this time I freak the hell out, pretty sure I am seeing a black "panther". I give my truck a little gas, I figure I'm 50-60 yards away, and I want to see how close I can get to it. As soon as I did, the damn thing jumped like a spring over the ditch on the left. Not a single step before the jump, just boing, gone.
I don't know what I saw. I'll tell you it wasn't a housecat, it wasn't a bobcat. It was entirely too big. The old heads in my town say there used to be "panthers" up and down the river bottom here. My school consolidated, but before we did, our mascot was a panther.
I see something black as night in the road. At first I thought it was a trash bag. Soon I can tell it is an animal, walking away from me. This thing is probably 100-150 yards from me. I just keep idling, gaining on it all the time.
By the time I get within about 60-75 yards, I'd say, I think it hears me. It turns it's head to the left, and although I'm too far away to see any real details, it is the perfect outline of a cat. When it turns it's head, it's body follows a little and I can see this thing's tail. The tail looked like it was as long as it's body.
By this time I freak the hell out, pretty sure I am seeing a black "panther". I give my truck a little gas, I figure I'm 50-60 yards away, and I want to see how close I can get to it. As soon as I did, the damn thing jumped like a spring over the ditch on the left. Not a single step before the jump, just boing, gone.
I don't know what I saw. I'll tell you it wasn't a housecat, it wasn't a bobcat. It was entirely too big. The old heads in my town say there used to be "panthers" up and down the river bottom here. My school consolidated, but before we did, our mascot was a panther.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 3:34 pm to troyt37
black panthers are in south america. Thought we just had cougars in LA
Posted on 8/30/18 at 3:36 pm to dbeck
Back in the day when the Jaguar’s range was into America I guess they could have mates with the local puma/cougar population and left a recessive gene for the dark fur in some of the native cats. Maybe not black but darker than normal.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 3:38 pm to GrammarKnotsi
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Calhoun Facebook page is talking about it this morning..Wardens who don't believe that they are in that area, aren't from there..
They arent in that area because there are no black Panthers in the states or near us
This post was edited on 8/30/18 at 3:41 pm
Posted on 8/30/18 at 3:39 pm to Boo Krewe
My friend has a black house cat that probably weighs at least 20 or 25 pounds. He calls it a swamp cat. Could a puma mate with a large feral black house cat and throw off black offspring?
Posted on 8/30/18 at 3:45 pm to NWLAtiger55
Posted on 8/30/18 at 3:49 pm to BOSCEAUX
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Could a puma mate with a large feral black house cat and throw off black offspring?
No, but he would eat it.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 4:53 pm to NWLAtiger55
Was it in the Feliciana's?
Posted on 8/30/18 at 5:01 pm to tgrbaitn08
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The only big cat that has the DNA to be able to have black pigment is the Jaguar. There are black jaguars.
This - melanistic jaguar.
Posted on 8/30/18 at 5:18 pm to NWLAtiger55
Posted on 8/30/18 at 5:35 pm to NWLAtiger55
Years ago a group of guys That I worked with, played a joke on one of their carpoolers.. He always had to out do any story someone told. He was taking a nap on the way to work and the guys in the car had already talked about making him believe that they saw a black panther cross the road. They woke him by screaming did you see that? It was a huge black panther. He immediately said that he saw it too and it was as big as a small horse. When they got to work they let everyone know that they made it up. He spent the entire day describing his experience with anyone who would listen. 
Posted on 8/30/18 at 7:33 pm to rickyh
LWF denied there were any cougars in La. then they started showing up on game cameras in Northeast La.
One was killed or captured and they traced the DNA to New Mexico cats.
My Dad ran dogs and we heard one squall one night, sounded like a woman screaming. I got back in the truck quickly.
Made the hair on the back of my neck standup.
One was killed or captured and they traced the DNA to New Mexico cats.
My Dad ran dogs and we heard one squall one night, sounded like a woman screaming. I got back in the truck quickly.
Made the hair on the back of my neck standup.
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