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Strange Black Cat

11 years ago

I was hunting sitting a Deer Blind, and a black cat ran out of the woods. Now, at first I thought it was a domestic cat, and dismissed it. After taking a close look through the scope, I came to see this wasn't an ordinary cat. It had a beard like a bobcat, was dark brown, about double the size of a house cat, had subtle spots, and a long tail. Could this possibly be the product of a domestic cat breeding with a wild one? I also thought it resembled a wild cat known as Jaguarundi, but I've heard those are extremely rare out here in East Texas. Please tell me if you know what it is.

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Wrm11
Original Author
11 years ago
Also a picture I thought that showed it resembling a baby bobcat. They look similar,. However, the mystery cat was much darker.
User
11 years ago
It's a fuzzy dark blob.

Judging size of animals is hard unless you can spot them against an object that you can later measure ... unless you can get a good photo with something for scale in the background, it's just a UFO (unidentified feline outdoors).

Intact male domestic felines can have sideburns, especially if they have a bit of longhaired ancestry.
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Wrm11
Original Author
11 years ago
Apologies for the picture quality. It was evening, and the cat was pretty far away. I tried to describe it as best I can, but can domestic cats really have "manes" like that?
User
11 years ago
Yes ... Even more so if there's a bit of longhair in the background, and it's winter, and an intact male.

Here's two domestics, one extremely jowly

http://www.flickr.com/photos/98491468@N08/9266388021
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimmylegs/6332013161/in/photostream/

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11 years ago
maybe a fisher??

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