No joke. That light post is probably 12" and you add the bulb on top you get another 3-4"'s. We have a big orange cat but if he gets that big I'm shooting him.lol
If not photo shopped he should have appeared smaller than the lamp not larger.

Our eyes constantly play tricks on us, fellas. Humans are notoriously terrible at eyewitness accounts. This goes hand in hand with "I know what I know" despite being blasted in the face with sound science.


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Is this the cat you are referring to? He was found last fall/winter on Hwy 12 West of Dequincy right across from the Elementry school. They said he was declawed so he wasn't wild.

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I think that's it.

What is weird is that nobody at all had even heard a rumor of somebody keeping a pet cougar any where around there. It is also weird that it sat and decomposed for so long alongside a busy road like hwy 12. Do you know if it showed signs of being hit by a car or are they just assuming?

no black cougars! If you see a black cougar then take a picture and you will be world famous. Its all about genetics, and cougars don't have the same genetic trends as jaguars and leopards.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_panther

I think assumed. But from what Im told they travel long distances.
I know that bears that get relocated from morgan city to way north louisiana, come right back in some cases. Some even further, depending on age and sex. Cougars even more, so anything is possible. Im no expert but friends of mine are.

Yeah, it could have gotten loose from a pen 100 miles from Dequincy and eventually wandered over there and got hit. People probably just assumed it was a dead dog and didn't think twice about it.

I agree.

they had a big cat attack a buddy of mines horse in grand lake a few years back... seen the horses gouges with my very own two eyes....

Yep. That made the news. Definitely not a bob cat as they will not attack a larger animal.

A few weeks before they found that cat I saw one cross 171 at Barnes creek. It was heading west. That is less than 20 miles from where they found the dead one. I almost hit it in the curve. That cat was huge.

I have seen them on the back side of Granger's field where Hickory creek crosses the pipeline. That is about 1.5 miles southwest of the corner of Granger road and south Menonite rd.

Well that just got real interesting! I live within a few miles of there

Are the ones you have seen tan or black?

Will post pics later but walked up on a freshly killed deer with only head missing. It was cached away like cats do and I thiughg I was finally gonna get pics of a cougar. Put camera up and it was a medium sized bobcat and it came back a couple times a day to feed on it.

I'm doubting the bobcat killed it. A large bobcat will get up in the mid to upper 30# range and those are rare. My dad traps and has caught close to 100 with just a few in that weight class. Small deer/big bobcat? Could be possible. Big bobcat vs horse? Highly doubtful at best.

A 30 lber is a sure enough beast. This one wasn't that large for sure there weren't any wounds on the deer and it was outside hunting season ( not that it matters in north louisiana :spineyes:) the neck was completely gone. They are strong for their size and can and will take down deer. Certainly not big enough to take down a horse. It very well could be a cougar that took down that horse They exist and have been documented in sw la could have been a wild one or a captive one. 100% wasn't a black panther though

Could have been the pink panther. [emoji15]

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I have seen both. First one looked black. It was quartering towards me at about a 100 yards about an hour before dark. I thought it was a yearling. It turned broadside and its tail was the give away of what it was. It looked like tail was longer than the cat. Its paw prints were larger than the palm of my hand. I was talking about it after the hunt. Everyone thought I was nuts till old man Hollingsworth said its about time someone else saw it too. He laughed and said he wasnt going to say anything till someone did first. 2 years ago was the last black one that I saw and it was mid day. I got a good look at it with binoculars at 150 to 200 yards crossing a pipeline.
The days I have seen them where mid week later in the season when the lease quietens down after the rut and everyone concentrates on duck hunting. I have spent 40 years deer hunting and I know what I saw. There is no mistake when you see that long tail that almost touches the ground and curls back up.