Note how the proportions differ. The leopard cat’s body proportions (like the cat in the picture here) resemble a domestic cat’s. The golden cat looks much more like a smaller version of a puma.

Maybe the news isn’t fake (I hope it’s true), but the photo just does not look genuine (to me).

Those are some of the things I noticed too. Especially the shadow cast by the leaves: you can see the flat photo through the shadow. The whole thing almost looks like a print, with leaves held or placed in front of it. Also, the leaves conveniently obscure the animal’s head, leaving its identity in doubt. The tail dors not look like a Golden Cat’s tail, either; it looks like a Leopard Cat’s tail.

The Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy uses mainstream scientific camera trapping in our research. See the post The Sasquatch and Camera Traps here at Cryptomundo for details and discussion.

Did not know that was not really a separate species. Once again, the media does not truly check with the “experts.”
What else is new?

Thanks for the correction, Loren and Chad.

Personally, I’d hate to have a bomb go off in my face while I’m out for a walk at night. But given the other things we’ve done to animals in our history of poor stewardship, if we can largely replace hunting with this, what a step up for our species. It might even be hope.