Comments on: Panthera atrox in the West

By: Noah812

Noah812 — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 20:57:39 +0000

Yes I can tell you that we do have big cats in Texas. In fact I live 50 miles east of Dallas and I am aware of several sightings. I personally have not seen them but I have heard them on several occassions. My mother saw two large cats walking together just outside of our town. There was a solid black and a dark brown one. They were in morning daylight and seemed to not be in a big hurry so she observed them for 5 + minutes. My mother said they were very large, larger than most big dogs. Hunting in west Texas one hunter observed a big striped cat on two occassions while in his stand moving quickly through a field. Oh and these were not bobcats, just to note mother and friend are skilled hunters. There are alot of things that people are unaware of in the woods.

By: OKBFfan

OKBFfan — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:17:38 +0000

April, 2002. Lady down in Maysville, Oklahoma not only saw a black cat, but it stopped in front of her car and placed its paws on the hood, peering inside. It then proceeded to pace around her car while she was frozen in terror, and then it simply walked away. Traps were set and nothing ever came of it.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:27:58 +0000

Before this gets overblown into a rural versus urban debate (hey, I’m a rural kid living in a 60,000 population city now), let me clarify something.

“Black panthers” are unverified animals – thus cryptids – but well-known to local people.

It is like telling the Sherpas there are no Yetis in their back forty. State wildlife biologists (unless they have seen one) deny that “black panthers” exist.

Large, unknown, mystery cats are part of the cryptozoo, needless to say.

By: oldtimer

oldtimer — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:14:09 +0000

I’m in Texas, a couple hundred miles west of Ole Bub. I thought the big pretty black panthers were common knowledge to everyone in the country, but I did know that city folks tend to disbelieve everything that isn’t on the TV.

The panthers scream like a woman being gutted alive, tracks are the size of my hand with the fingers bent at the knuckles (real easy to track in the snow), I estimate them to be about six feet long (three foot stride on one set of tracks I measured), and the panthers run so fast that they are more like a black blur across a 100 yard section of my property.

My land is located in the path they use for roaming. I saw one every several days for the year I lived on that section. On occassion we would see one in the headlights of our truck; pretty cats! Their eyes reflect light well too!

If panthers are something new to city folks, maybe some folks ought to spend a little time outside their city houses (sorry, I just get a little frustrated by folks saying that some things don’t exist that I know do exist).

There are lots of critters running around here that we were taught in school should not exist. Locals usually keep quiet about our critters so that city folk won’t come out and kill everything in sight.

By: Ole Bub

Ole Bub — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:24:03 +0000

Good morning Bigfoot Bloggers….yes we have black panthers in eastern Oklahoma….I’ve seen black “mountain lions” several times over the past 30 years….nothing cryptic about them here….they seem most common in the alluvial flood plains, swamps and bayous….sound familiar…

I watched one cross a hay meadow in the snow with field glasses atop my oil storage tanks for several minutes….the tracks were about the size of a mans hand…an obvious cat print….

seeing is believing…

ole bub