Comments on: California’s Black Panthers

By: jtm_kryptos

jtm_kryptos — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:59:59 +0000

mr.77, if i hear that escaped exotic theory again, i’m going to burst, but seriously what’s with those dumb circus train sort of explanations…

By: jtm_kryptos

jtm_kryptos — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:58:03 +0000

sadly i heard of raging forest fires in california now…
i feel bad for all the Bigfoot, Panthera atrox, and others currently hiding in the southern California forests…

By: Samson77

Samson77 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:26:11 +0000

Actually they do live in the hills surrounding LA, in the San Gabriel Mountains. I have seen them in Rancho Cucamonga (45 miles east of LA, just north of Ontario airport).
If these black cat sightings were farther south, near San Diego, I would guess it would be possible for a Jaguar to make it that far north of the border. But Northern California? Not likely. If the sightings are legit, it almost has to be an escaped exotic.

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:38:46 +0000

Nothing really surprises me anymore. California is such a large and dispersed in every way and everything. And if they are alive and living in the coastal mountain range, they are thriving. True, people are encroaching on that area, but that means free, easy food (such critters as ones named fifi). That is what was happening in Los Angeles (I only say was because of the wildfires going on). Man spread into the hills and the mountain lions looked around and said, “Oh, look. Small defenseless dog. How cute. Dinner time…” and that’s what they have been doing ever since (although I don’t know if they officially exist in Los Angeles…sshhhhhh). It seems that nature is taking over again. We have all seen the movies where man almost destroys himself, lives in only a few small areas and nature reclaims everything we built and took. Well, Mother Nature isn’t waiting for us to do something stupid. There are too many reports of animals in larger cities.