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Local woman claims to have seen 'panther' near Goldbug, Ky.see pic.

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That is such a poor picture it could be any housecat. Or panther. Or mountain lion. Or photoshop. It seems silhouhetted so I can't really be sure it is really black or that it appears that way due to lighting.
Where my mother lives there are occassional sightings of large cats. Not housecats; it's a little unerving, but they don't seem to like getting too close to people.
 
Looks like an indistinct pictue of something.

Could be a sasquatch down on all fours. Pretty sure it isn't a yeti, they are white.


bob
 
The problem with such pictures is that there is nothing of known scale by which to guage the size of the animal. So it could easily be a house cat and you would not know from the image because there isn't a scale to judge by.
 
I think it looks like panther. It seems to have longer tail than most house cats. It also looks like it is taken from quit a distance with a poor camera which suggests to me it could be a sizable cat.
 
Well... a week/month ago, people were saying a lion or some such big cat was running around in West Virginia. I suppose he might've crossed the border.
 
Panther

I have a daughter that lives in the area (Whitley county).Panthers are seen and heard there by many,but not a common occurance.:scrutiny:
 
I'm pretty sure that's the Loch Ness monster.

My mom, who is not a fool, and who grew up in Montana, and who hunted regularly during her childhood, swears she saw a lion (Puma, cougar, whatever) in her back yard in Englewood, Co. (suburban Denver) There have been confirmed reports of lions in the city before, but I still tease her about getting glasses, and she gets pretty mad and still swears it was a lion
 
Might be,

Here in MI with panthers the 3 S's are followed (shoot shovel and shut up) we are going through a debacle with the DNR who says there are none here when there is evidence to the contrary.

It's also worth noting in Mississippi there are reports of one these so when a guy asked their DNR if he could shoot it the DNR said "You cant they are protected" which prompted him to say "If they are not in this state then why are they protected?".
 
Saw a couple of tan panthers here in Middle TN when I was a kid 14 years old, had a bunch of folks say I must have just seen a big bob cat and I didn't know the difference (that was even AFTER I had killed a couple of bob cats):rolleyes:, but since there were NO panthers here I was mistaken. Not to long after that a buddy of mine's uncle was having some bear problems (run his dog off his food bowl, getting into the garbage kinda stuff), and the TWRA folks just laughed because there were NO bears here. But then he took a picture of it eating out of the dogs bowl in his back yard and then they took him a little more seriously.

Outline of the pic does look like a big cat, with a heavy body and a very long tail, but as was mentioned above the lack of objects to use for size comparison negates any real study.

I was watching Monster Quest a few weeks back and they had a video from West Va that did have some good stuff in the frame for size comparison and concluded that the cat had a body in excess of 2 feet long, which is about double that of the average house cat, and a long thick tail, in the video the cat's features sure seemed to be those of a small panther rather than a house cat, so it would not seem to be as improbable occurance as it would first seem.
 
Why is it every time this kinda stuff gets out its such a bad picture.
Forget photoshop its so bad you could do it in paint.
 
I have begun to get more into photography over the last few years, and honestly unless you get into good equipment you will get far more poor pics, than you will good one. The first few digital camera's that I owned or used were NOT very good unless you were COMPLETELY still and the light was correct, those elements seem to be missing in most instances like this. Now with better equipment you have a wider margin of error, but again how often do you even HAVE a camera with you when something odd happens, much less it being witnessed by someone who is a skilled photographer with good quality equipment?

Last year we invested in a very nice mid level amature camera (sunk about $1500 in body and lense) and so now the quality of the pics I take has increased, but then again I do not always have it with me, and even if I did I might not have either the time or remember to get it out and use it.
 
Here in WV both my parents have seen mountain lions on seperate occasions. I've occasionally found tracks too.

Seems every couple years or so someone will report seeing an African lion around. I think this past deer season someone said they were hunting out of a blind and a big male came up to it.
 
A Black "Panther" to boot. You would think more people would have seen this BLACK panther, as where is he/she going to hide?
If it`s seen again, doubters will become believers. Course, it just might be a
pussy cat seen through the lens of a old box-camera. Time will tell.
 
I grew up and lived many years in rural Florida, and know what a panther looks like.

Contrary to what the game and wildlife officials here in NC say, I've seen one here, right in my back yard. After living here a few years, one of the local old-timers told me yes, that stretch on that side of the mountain has lions.

I know which authority I will believe.

Personally, I have no doubt that the cougar population has migrated more widely than is advertised. Big cats have big brains, and you are likely to see one only by accident or happenstance.
 
I have a friend who does professional hunting/game control all through North and South Carolina, he says once in a while he hears about 'em too. I guess there's still stretches of wilderness around big enough for 'em.
 
Maybe 10-15 years ago, one of the locals here said he saw a bobcat. Everybody pretty much laughed it off until one was caught in a leg trap.

20 years ago there were no coyotes. Now they're common.

As noted above, there have been sightings of cougars in southern Michigan maybe 40 miles from me.
 
We have heard them in the Jena, Louisiana area and seen a few cat tracks that were possibly too large to be bobcats but no sightings or picture proof of them...
 
Kentucky abnormalities is a major hobby of mine :) I actuall have a website ( www.myspace.com/kentuckyforteansociety ) that I use to post and collect stories about things in Ky.*

I have gotten more resonses from people about black panthers that anything else. I actually have an uncle that had one walk across the road in front of him in the middle of the afternoon. The Dept. of Fish and Wildlife even discussed them on their question and answear show that Tim Farmer does from time to time. They said that they had no proof of their existance at this time (no bodies or pics from their trail cams in any of the wildlife maintainance areas) but that they got frequent reports of other people seeing them. They also said that they would be considered an exoctic in the state of Ky and that it would be legal to shoot one since exotics are not protected. They would be happy to have a body to examine.

* I make no claims to the authenticity of the reports I recieve unless I can authenticate them myself, I just collect the stories.
 
There's no such thing as a "black panther".

Or so says U.S. Fish and Wildlife.

There are also no bears in Ohio. Until a woman in Brimfield hit one with a Chevy Corsica.

I don't know what's in the picture (link didn't work for me) but my family originally comes from Quincy, Ky. and there are too many stories of big snakes and black cats to call it all hokum.

I have seen a rattlesnake that stretched from bumper to bumper of a 1978 Cadillac. Its skin is habging over my uncle Allens' couch in his living room in Garrison, Ky. There are weird things out there that game depts. don't admit to.
 
"Black panthers" are cougars with a high melanin content. Actually, they're a very dark brown. We've had a few daylight sightings in my general area...

My wife knows what cougars look like, on account of the hide that's draped across the back of the Terlingua couch. Near her house in south Georgia (we have two "micro-empires"), she's had two occasions to see a very dark variety of cougar.
 
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