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re: Black Panthers or Cougars in Louisiana
Posted on 3/20/19 at 7:13 am to sta4ever
Posted on 3/20/19 at 7:13 am to sta4ever
Guy up the road had issues with something grabbing small goats and dragging them over his 4ft fence. So he built a 6ft fence.
Keeps happening.
So he puts up a trail cam and spots what I would call a small cougar snagging a female about a week later. 60-80lbs with a very long solid tail.
My paw paw, who I don't remember ever even exaggerating in his life, swore one used to follow him in the 40s-70s while headlighting.
This is a man who used to was in the woods for a living and in the wood 5 nights a week to feed is kids and supply the local sheriff with meat. Wasn't easily spooked.
But to here him tell it, he'd always get an odd feeling and then turn around to see it on a large cypress, just watching him.
Never seen one myself.
But I have heard sounds that no animal in louisiana makes.
Keeps happening.
So he puts up a trail cam and spots what I would call a small cougar snagging a female about a week later. 60-80lbs with a very long solid tail.
My paw paw, who I don't remember ever even exaggerating in his life, swore one used to follow him in the 40s-70s while headlighting.
This is a man who used to was in the woods for a living and in the wood 5 nights a week to feed is kids and supply the local sheriff with meat. Wasn't easily spooked.
But to here him tell it, he'd always get an odd feeling and then turn around to see it on a large cypress, just watching him.
Never seen one myself.
But I have heard sounds that no animal in louisiana makes.
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Posted on 3/20/19 at 7:29 am to X123F45
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Guy up the road had issues with something grabbing small goats and dragging them over his 4ft fence. So he built a 6ft fence.
Keeps happening.
So he puts up a trail cam and spots what I would call a small cougar snagging a female about a week later. 60-80lbs with a very long solid tail.
oh good, so you have pics
we are finally going to see some trail cam pics!!!
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But I have heard sounds that no animal in louisiana makes
you would be surprised the sounds that our native critters make a fox, a bobcat, and especially some of our owls make a lot of crazy sounds
This post was edited on 3/20/19 at 7:37 am
Posted on 3/20/19 at 8:03 am to sta4ever
They don't exist.
Jaguars, bobcats, and leopards on the other hand can be black.
Jaguars, bobcats, and leopards on the other hand can be black.
Posted on 3/20/19 at 8:20 am to X123F45
there have been sightings of cougars pretty much everywhere south along the I-10 corridor and north of it 50 miles. Hell i thought I heard a cougar in North Mississippi. I've watched the discovery channel enough to know it wasn't no damn bobcat or bird or anything else with a scream/howl like that. I didn't see it but it scared TF out of me and the doe that was underneath my deerstand. Made me seriously consider carrying a sidearm next time i was in that area.
Posted on 3/20/19 at 8:23 am to sta4ever
black panthers are scared of cameras so if you are having trouble with them stealing chickens/pets put up a few cameras and they will go away.
Posted on 3/20/19 at 10:03 am to Bunsbert Montcroff
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i don't remember reading about a shooting, but i do remember lots of reports of jaguars captured on trail cams and seen in southern arizona. so they're here.
You are right, I misspoke on that part. It was pictures of a jaguar pelt that turned up that Arizona wildlife officials believe matched the pattern of a jaguar that had been caught on trail cams in southern Arizona.
Posted on 3/20/19 at 1:11 pm to Cowboyfan89
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Uh, pretty sure some jackass just killed a jaguar in Arizona last summer. At one time, the jaguar's range extended into southeast Texas and possibly even southwest Louisiana.
You are correct, but the incidence of jaguars anywhere in the U.S. is very low. Around seven jaguars have been documented in southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico since 1996. They were less rare before the country was settled, but probably never common.
Posted on 3/20/19 at 3:36 pm to celltech1981
Plan the National Anthem on a loop and they just kneel. 
Posted on 3/20/19 at 4:24 pm to Ron Cheramie
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rando
say baw, whatabout them pics your neighbor has?
we are waiting
Posted on 3/20/19 at 4:28 pm to MontanaTiger
they will become more scare in the southern us after trump finishes dat wall, am I right...
Posted on 3/20/19 at 4:49 pm to 257WBY
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Jaguars are in Southern Arizona some.
There was a lone male male from Mexico had wandered up there a few years ago, and I believe he was killed. He's the only known jaguar to cross into the US for the last decade or so. There is no population of them.
And there has never been a reliable sighting of a melanistic one in the US.
This post was edited on 3/20/19 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 3/20/19 at 9:39 pm to Broyota2
The LDWF verified game camera picture of 11/23/16 in Morehouse Parish was from my camera. Since then, if there is a sighting in the area, word gets to me. Although there have been no additional confirmed sightings since the 11/23/16 photo, I have received what I consider to be reliable accounts from three sources of sightings and three or four independent second hand accounts emanating from the same geographical “footprint” .....all sightings are within just a few miles from the site of the 11/23/16 photo. Cougars definitely frequent northern Richland and southern Morehouse Parishes.
Posted on 3/20/19 at 11:19 pm to sta4ever
My aunt swore that she saw a big black cat with a long black tail walking into the woods on her land in Pike County Mississippi one day. Also the guy that use to bush hog her land was bush hogging right along the edge of the woods where it was very thick and said he looked up and saw nothing but a black animal and white teeth and took off out of the woods. He came back to the house white as a ghost and nothing spooks that guy.
Also I hear all the time about people in Calhoun and Choudrant seeing panthers or cougars. The Cougars I believe are out there but the black panther, I don’t know about that
Also I hear all the time about people in Calhoun and Choudrant seeing panthers or cougars. The Cougars I believe are out there but the black panther, I don’t know about that
Posted on 3/21/19 at 5:18 am to MontanaTiger
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You are correct, but the incidence of jaguars anywhere in the U.S. is very low. Around seven jaguars have been documented in southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico since 1996. They were less rare before the country was settled, but probably never common.
I agree, but that is different than saying they do not occur in the U.S. They do, just very rarely.
Does this explain the "black panther" sightings? No. An already rare cat with a still rarer genetic mutation is certainly not the culprit of these supposed sightings.
Personally, I think these sightings are caused by 1 of 2 factors: either the mutation (deterioration) of the viewer's eyesight, or the inclusion of alcoholic beverages in these encounters.
Posted on 3/21/19 at 6:49 am to Cowboyfan89
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Personally, I think these sightings are caused by 1 of 2 factors: either the mutation (deterioration) of the viewer's eyesight, or the inclusion of alcoholic beverages in these encounters.
It's amazing how unreliable people are in identifying and later describing things they've seen while in a state of excitement/fear. Ten foot, yellow pythons turn out to be five foot gray ratsnakes. Huge black panthers turn out to be house cats, or almost any animal in low light. Giant wolves are coyotes or dogs. Etc. etc.
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