OT: Chupacabra?
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Trying to copy and paste an odd trail cam photo I got a couple years ago. Can’t figure it out. Pointers?
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Looks like a house cat to me. I think there is a dark patch behind its head that makes the head look a little strange, but it's just the background.
I'm getting old so I have to zoom things up but when I do it looks like a dog to me that has a big barrel chest that narrows back to its hips like the underside of a dog does. I can also see it has smaller ears like a dog, a deer has larger ears
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Definitely could be a dog, I was torn between dog and housecat.
It's not likely to be a deer unless that long tail is an illusion.
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Ha! Yeah he is definitely not tech savvy as you can see. His time stamps arent even right and Im pretty sure he bought whatever camera was cheapest at academy.
Scientists can claim there is no black panthers in North Ms but my eyes saw two in my lifetime, granted both sightings were 40 years ago. Grew up on a cattle farm, woke on morning and could hear the cows raising heck. Dad finished eating breakfast and told me to hop in the truck with him and let's go check on the cows. It was daylight but sun was just rising. Drove over a hill and all 80-100 cows were in a tight wad in the pasture below us. Circling the wad of cows was what looked like a black cat the size of a German shepherd The most noticeable thing was its tail. It's tail was as long as it's body or longer. It made about one more circle of the cows and saw the truck on the hill. It took off for the woods at that point. Dad wasn't surprised, while he claimed they weren't common but every few years Panthers would migrate through the areas creek bottoms and occasionally kill a calf.
I'm from Ellisville and back in the day there was a sporting goods store that had a black panther mounted on the wall. Jack Purvis (co-owner of the store) killed it on Rocky creek in Jones County .... the state wouldn't call it a confirmed sighting since a state official didn't see it alive. At the time the last confirmed sighting in Mississippi was 1908.
George's Sporting Goods, used to buy all my Chuck Taylor's and everything else sports related there back in the mid 70's from Jack, Dot, and then Jay. They had a guy (name was Stretch I believe) that could take your baseball glove completely apart and restring it w/ new leather stringing when one broke, restring tennis rackets, put iron on letters and numbers on jerseys, break your new glove in quickly, real jack of all trades. Sorry for the thread hijack............
I'm from next door in Covington County. Back around '76 a local hog farmer heard all kind of noise at night. The next day he went out to find all of his hogs dead with parts of them up in a tree. His fence was still up and his gate was locked. Of course bigfoot rumors ran like crazy but smart people were thinking it was a big cat.
I know stories like these are good fun, but do you actually believe you saw two black panthers when there hasn't been a verified black panther in history?
I'm using panther here to describe the animal which interchangeably goes by panther, mountain lion, cougar, puma, catamount, etc in this country. Again, there is no evidence that a black one of these has ever existed, even in it's North American home ranges, which Mississippi is definitely not.
If you expand to the most likely possibility, a black jaguar, it's still incredibly unlikely one has roamed Mississippi in modern times since only fossil records show jaguars living east of the Mississippi River. And black jaguars are rare, even in their home ranges. About 5% of jaguars are black.
Just thought it was worth considering other possibilities of what you saw.
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