Brother in Law came over yesterday to eat lunch. He shard a photo from his trail camera. He has a small deer lease near Trout, LA and like many of us, has trail cameras set out to watch wildlife. Trail cam resolution is what it is and he had a photo on it that needs opinions.
Some sort of cat. Larger than your garden variety tabby, but bigger than the bobcats we normally see in the area. Maybe a small panther. I took the photo and ran it through the computer. Came up with this image.
I'm voting bobcat, based on the stripes we see on the cats leg. I don't think it is a panther. But I could be wrong. However, based on what I know about local bobcat, that is a big-ass bobcat.
Wha say ye?
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Yeah, I gotta go with a well fed bobcat.
just me but our bobcats up here in bossier parish seem to have a much shorter body to leg ratio. add in the bobbed tail and it sure adds up to beats me.
Bobcat.
We've got one on our rural "emergency escape/recreational/future retirement home" property that I catch on the trail cam and security cams every once in a while.
A couple of years ago while I was there, I was sitting in front of the camper enjoying an evening cigar and he wandered around the end of the camper, hopped up onto a stump about 30 feet from me, sat down and looked back over his shoulder as if to say "nice evening isn't it?". Sat there for a few minutes surveying his domain, then hopped down and trotted back off into the woods without a care in the world.
They're pretty skittish creatures so seeing one acting so nonchalant was strange. He obviously didn't view me as a threat. Maybe he could sense that I meant him no harm? I guess he couldn't sense that I'd eased my .45 out of the holster as soon as I spotted him just in case.
Anyway my buddy isn't as big as the one in the image, but I'm pretty certain of the ID.
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