Comments on: New Mystery Cat Photo http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/plato-cat/ for Bigfoot, Loch Ness, and More Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:29:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: twas brillig http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/plato-cat/#comment-52122 twas brillig Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:21:59 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=9404#comment-52122 <strong>hah! right after i typed the above, I found the following which proves my point...</strong> Search For Puma Finds Jaguar Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 21st, 2009 http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/find-jag/ hah! right after i typed the above, I found the following which proves my point…

Search For Puma Finds Jaguar

Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 21st, 2009

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/find-jag/

]]> By: twas brillig http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/plato-cat/#comment-52121 twas brillig Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:19:53 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=9404#comment-52121 Woah house cat? people, most of you are waaay too quick to assume, it's painfully obvious you don't know much about cats. I've had cats all my life, this is NOT an ordinary house cat, it looks far too stalky and the ears too short. Certainly, house cats can be big, but this photo belies even those larger or wild cat breeds. It is most certainly NOT A DOG, the skull shape, ears, and stance are clearly feline. Don't assume there aren't wild cats roaming the country, it's a foolish notion, there's been plenty of people who've privately owned cats who have let them go in secret, and not to mention jaguars have been known in the US, cougars range from Chile to Alaska, and can migrate. Big cats are OFTEN EXTREMELY secretive, it is an adaptation that has kept them alive, and can even help elude prying eyes for years. Peace Woah house cat? people, most of you are waaay too quick to assume, it’s painfully obvious you don’t know much about cats. I’ve had cats all my life, this is NOT an ordinary house cat, it looks far too stalky and the ears too short. Certainly, house cats can be big, but this photo belies even those larger or wild cat breeds. It is most certainly NOT A DOG, the skull shape, ears, and stance are clearly feline.

Don’t assume there aren’t wild cats roaming the country, it’s a foolish notion, there’s been plenty of people who’ve privately owned cats who have let them go in secret, and not to mention jaguars have been known in the US, cougars range from Chile to Alaska, and can migrate. Big cats are OFTEN EXTREMELY secretive, it is an adaptation that has kept them alive, and can even help elude prying eyes for years.

Peace

]]> By: Ann Unknown http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/plato-cat/#comment-50822 Ann Unknown Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:57:02 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=9404#comment-50822 Wow, cutrer! That is amazing (the still, showing scale). Your link was worth a look. :-) Even if that was only a very small white tail, I did NOT "see a putty-tat" in that picture. Sure wish someone could get the original footage up for analysis. How 'bout it Loren? Any chance? Wow, cutrer! That is amazing (the still, showing scale). Your link was worth a look. :-) Even if that was only a very small white tail, I did NOT “see a putty-tat” in that picture.

Sure wish someone could get the original footage up for analysis.

How ’bout it Loren? Any chance?

]]> By: cutrer http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/plato-cat/#comment-50630 cutrer Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:16:00 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=9404#comment-50630 That's a cat. I've got a <a href="http://www.thejump.net/multimedia/cougar/black-panther.htm" rel="nofollow">link</a> to video of what appears to be a black panther here in Alabama. That’s a cat. I’ve got a link to video of what appears to be a black panther here in Alabama.

]]> By: Ann Unknown http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/plato-cat/#comment-50608 Ann Unknown Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:42:44 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=9404#comment-50608 It looks a lot like the big, black "putty-tat" that wondered out of the national forest down here, to adopt a friend's 7 year old son. Some common domestic cats can get remarkably large. My friend's son named him "Mr. Re". No one knows exactly how that cat survived all the coyotes out here in this wilderness area, as well as the wolves, pumas, javalinas, eagles, owls, ... . But I'm betting that he may have eaten <em>them</em>, before they could eat him. ;-) Mr. Re is almost ridiculously friendly and affectionate. But so huge and brawny for a domestic feline, that he almost knocks the little one over by stocking, pouncing, and playing with him. No wonder some ancient people thought cats were witches. They can be mysterious, and sometimes just a bit scary. Especially if they decide to tackle you in the dark on your way out to your truck, as that one did to me the first time we met. I let out a sc-r-e-e-a-m that got all the coyotes on the mountain sides started! :-D It looks a lot like the big, black “putty-tat” that wondered out of the national forest down here, to adopt a friend’s 7 year old son. Some common domestic cats can get remarkably large.

My friend’s son named him “Mr. Re”. No one knows exactly how that cat survived all the coyotes out here in this wilderness area, as well as the wolves, pumas, javalinas, eagles, owls, … . But I’m betting that he may have eaten them, before they could eat him. ;-)

Mr. Re is almost ridiculously friendly and affectionate. But so huge and brawny for a domestic feline, that he almost knocks the little one over by stocking, pouncing, and playing with him.

No wonder some ancient people thought cats were witches. They can be mysterious, and sometimes just a bit scary. Especially if they decide to tackle you in the dark on your way out to your truck, as that one did to me the first time we met. I let out a sc-r-e-e-a-m that got all the coyotes on the mountain sides started! :-D

]]> By: DWA http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/plato-cat/#comment-50574 DWA Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:30:24 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=9404#comment-50574 Viergacht: Indeed. No need to be a ...well, I try not to use words like that here. So. Why were you? I made a simple statement about all this Photoshop "analysis" I see going on, and how it's no substitute for actual, real, followup. Too many people think that photo editing programs are science. As we have seen all too well on this thread, they don't cut it. And yet here are people tweedling a few knobs, and saying you're on 'shrooms if you disagree with them. The photo is the photo. Doctoring (of any kind) is...well, it's why nobody trusts photos as proof. So. Why were you? And while we're on education: you could have said what you did in your second post (absent words I try not to use on a site populated by intelligent people like me) in your first post. Couldn't you? Viergacht:

Indeed. No need to be a …well, I try not to use words like that here.

So.

Why were you?

I made a simple statement about all this Photoshop “analysis” I see going on, and how it’s no substitute for actual, real, followup. Too many people think that photo editing programs are science. As we have seen all too well on this thread, they don’t cut it. And yet here are people tweedling a few knobs, and saying you’re on ’shrooms if you disagree with them.

The photo is the photo. Doctoring (of any kind) is…well, it’s why nobody trusts photos as proof.

So.

Why were you?

And while we’re on education: you could have said what you did in your second post (absent words I try not to use on a site populated by intelligent people like me) in your first post.

Couldn’t you?

]]> By: Viergacht http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/plato-cat/#comment-50567 Viergacht Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:45:32 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=9404#comment-50567 @ DWA By "messed with" I mean I tried using changes in contrast, brightness, etc, to make details more clear. What esle can you do with a crappy photo? No need to be a jackass. @ DWA
By “messed with” I mean I tried using changes in contrast, brightness, etc, to make details more clear. What esle can you do with a crappy photo? No need to be a jackass.

]]> By: Roy3rd http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/plato-cat/#comment-50557 Roy3rd Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:00:06 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=9404#comment-50557 I've seen enough house cats (and from enough angles) to state with confidence that the animal in this pic is, indeed, a house cat. It's time to move on. :-) I’ve seen enough house cats (and from enough angles) to state with confidence that the animal in this pic is, indeed, a house cat.

It’s time to move on. :-)

]]> By: DWA http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/plato-cat/#comment-50553 DWA Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:09:48 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=9404#comment-50553 Well, the proof is in. No one knows what this is. And some are willing to assert with all the authority at their command that they do, before showing they don't. This is why photos can't be proof. The occasional clinic is helpful. I will say this though. If you "messed with it in Photoshop," there is no way I can accept your assertion of what it is. Well, the proof is in.

No one knows what this is. And some are willing to assert with all the authority at their command that they do, before showing they don’t.

This is why photos can’t be proof. The occasional clinic is helpful.

I will say this though. If you “messed with it in Photoshop,” there is no way I can accept your assertion of what it is.

]]> By: Viergacht http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/plato-cat/#comment-50551 Viergacht Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:15:16 +0000 http://www.cryptomundo.com/?p=9404#comment-50551 I'm seeing a fat housecat for this one. I messed with it in photoshop, and from what I can the top of the ear is pointed - cat, not pug. What Kittenz is seeing as the curled top of a pug's tail is just the sunlight highlighting the top of the cat's rump. There is also a highlight on the upcurled tip of the cat's tail, which is down by the heel of the right rear leg. At any rate, from the size of the leaves and grss it's pretty clear this is a small animal, certainly under 12 lbs and not a cougar. I’m seeing a fat housecat for this one. I messed with it in photoshop, and from what I can the top of the ear is pointed - cat, not pug. What Kittenz is seeing as the curled top of a pug’s tail is just the sunlight highlighting the top of the cat’s rump. There is also a highlight on the upcurled tip of the cat’s tail, which is down by the heel of the right rear leg. At any rate, from the size of the leaves and grss it’s pretty clear this is a small animal, certainly under 12 lbs and not a cougar.

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