DaytonBaseball101 Posted July 30, 2012 Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 Was reading a thread from a couple years back regarding this subject , and from my own personel experience . Yes they are in the woods and river bottoms around southeast texas . I hunt the trinity river bottom just outside of dayton in the kenifick area . The river bottom was pretty well flooded which pushes everything to higher ground . I was bow hunting the gas line that run through my property , when out it stepped . It was about 150yds way , and at first a thought the biggest bobcat i have ever seen . BUT , it turned in the tall grass and came towards me . It got to within approx 50 yards of me and turned to leave the gas line . That is when i saw the long tail and just how big it actually was . Guessing i would say it was 100lbs plus . Actually looked like a mountain lion would be my best discription . Needlesss to say i did not stay in the stand till after dark being all i had with me was a bow . I have hunted this land prior to this encounter for 9 years , and since the encounter 3 years , and have yet to see it or another one since . So I say yes they are for sure in our area . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronco1 Posted July 30, 2012 Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 Yeah, I remember that thread, many people in SETX have seen large cats like that. But, the fact is there is no black phase of a mountain Lion/Cougar/Puma/ etc...What people most likely see is a Jaguarundi.Here are some Links to read:Black Panther[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_panther]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_panther[/url]Cougar[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar#Physical_characteristics]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar#Physical_characteristics[/url]Jaguarundi[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguarundi#Description]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguarundi#Description[/url][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Puma_yaguarondi.jpg/220px-Puma_yaguarondi.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaytonBaseball101 Posted July 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 Yea Bronco , i saw yor post on that thread as well . If i remember correctly it said the animal you are refering to only grows to approx 8 to 16lbs . The cat i saw was bigger than a german shepard . Very large cat . I had heard about panthers and cougars being in the river bottoms , and was very skeptical myself . This particular day changed my belief on the subject very quickly . I know what i saw , and now have no doubts they are there . If i would have had a rifle i would have killed the cat . To much livestock and children in the area for a predator like that to be around . Like I said though , I'm sure the high water in the river bottom at the time had a lot to do with the animal being that close . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronco1 Posted July 30, 2012 Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 I don't doubt for a second that there are cougars/mountain lions around here. The point was that if someone see's a large black cat that size it is a leopard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasminuteman Posted August 4, 2012 Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 [quote name="DaytonBaseball101" post="1240726" timestamp="1343678149"]Yea Bronco , i saw yor post on that thread as well . If i remember correctly it said the animal you are refering to only grows to approx 8 to 16lbs . The cat i saw was bigger than a german shepard . Very large cat . I had heard about panthers and cougars being in the river bottoms , and was very skeptical myself . This particular day changed my belief on the subject very quickly . I know what i saw , and now have no doubts they are there . If i would have had a rifle i would have killed the cat . To much livestock and children in the area for a predator like that to be around . Like I said though , I'm sure the high water in the river bottom at the time had a lot to do with the animal being that close .[/quote] I was driving in Kenifick about 3 or 4 years ago and saw a cougar crossing the road.It was a cougar and nothing else.This is the second Ive seen here in SE Texas.The first was many years ago when I was hunting on Arizona Creek near Batson.This one left prints in the mud and Jerry Freeman who was the club Game Warden confirmed it was a cougar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronco1 Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 [url=http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_lf_w7000_0150.pdf]http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_lf_w7000_0150.pdf[/url]Per this publication Leopards once did inhabit Texas and still could.[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_panther]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_panther[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texasminuteman Posted August 17, 2012 Report Share Posted August 17, 2012 Ive never seen a black cat,but wouldnt mind putting one on the wall. 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rip2506 Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 guy cam in the wash the other day and a moutain lion had his deer by the throat.. just outside of Jasper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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