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Not great pics....this is a picture off my camp computer.
Large Bobcat ??
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Second pic is a spike buck about the same spot.


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...long tail...looks like mountain lion...
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Blowing the pic up what looks like a tail
is brush.
But body size is big for a Bobcat.
Hoping it shows for better pics later on.
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Its small for a mtn lion.Maybe a young one?
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Chuppacabra
I'd recognize it anywhere......


I keep seeing two Moose in the picture. haha

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The haunch looks hog like, the paunch doesn't.
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Compared to the deer, it looks much smaller, so I vote bobcat.
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Xfuzz--you should Google Jaguarundi, a Central/South American Cat. It is smaller than a Mountain Lion but larger than a Bobcat. Has a body structure amazingly similar to your picture and a funky, small head like your pictures shows (animal's head almost looks deformed). They have been sighted in FL, AL and OK. They are seen in South Texas/Northern Mexico with some frequency (where I saw one). It does have a long busy tail, but that could be turned to the other side.

I ALWAYS believe that when one hears hoof-beats think horses not zebras--meaning the simplest explainiation is always best and usually correct. It could be a bobcat at a weird angle. But when I saw the picture the first thing I thought was Jauarundi.
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Xfuzz--you should Google Jaguarundi, a Central/South American Cat. It is smaller than a Mountain Lion but larger than a Bobcat. Has a body structure amazingly similar to your picture and a funky, small head like your pictures shows (animal's head almost looks deformed). They have been sighted in FL, AL and OK. They are seen in South Texas/Northern Mexico with some frequency (where I saw one). It does have a long busy tail, but that could be turned to the other side.

I ALWAYS believe that when one hears hoof-beats think horses not zebras--meaning the simplest explainiation is always best and usually correct. It could be a bobcat at a weird angle. But when I saw the picture the first thing I thought was Jauarundi.


Jaguarundis have relatively short legs. One color phase was once thought to be a separate cat, called an eyra.


I think the odds here favor a bobcat. But I can't rule out a jaguarundi, especially if the OP is in southern Texas. It might also be an ocelot. I don't think we have margays or oncillas that far north. And they're smaller.
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Agree 100%. What jumped out at me is the head looks weird/small but it may just be a strange photo.
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I am in the Piney Woods of East Texas.
Photo has many old timer's wondering...
maybe just a weird shot.
We are on 5 sections that we recently picked up
from the "Paper/Timber" company.
Much of it seldom hunted..much less game cams up.

My camp is only 400 yards from this cam.
Wife was in camp last full moon and awake reading, I was
sound asleep and she stated she heard a "scream"
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Who knows...hoping for more pics.
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Bobcat. Body shape and proportion it's a bob.
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Xfuzz--why are you getting so much light reflection back into your camera? Is there a bunch of small brush reflecting it? (It's hard to tell). Or was it a foggy night? I would really like to see a clear picture of the critter, whatever he is.

Here is Friday morning shot.
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Wampus Cat. No doubt about it.
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Maybe too close to the feeder.
Newer/more expensive camera.
My cheaper ones take better pics plus
you need a degree to set these up right.

I could not get photobucket to sign in on my
old computer...so it is a pic of a pic.
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Mountain lions scream,don't know about the others
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Jaguarandi squeak like a bird. I just played vocalizations and had three house cats and one kitten on me like I was shaking the treat jar. Their call apparently attracts house cats!
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I had never heard of jaguarundis, so I looked up a picture of one.

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Last year, late at night, I was riding my 4-wheeler and came up on one of my feeders which had not been filled in a month. As I got closer I noticed a brown animal that had the coloring of a deer, and assumed it was a one until I noticed the long tail😳.

To confirm the chance my eyes not deceiving me, I did a little research of the known counties where lions are confirmed and sure enough my county was one of them:



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If you're in the Piney Woods region, are you close to the Big Thicket? ANYTHING fairly logical may live in there!


I think there ARE BLACK BEARS AND REPORTEDLY, BOTH BIGFOOT aND IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKERS, SUPPOSEDLY EXTINCT.


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Ladies and gents, if you compare the size of the spike (yearling or 2 year old deer is going to be at MAX 36" or so from ground to top of shoulder) to the size of the cat that cat is maybe at most 20" from ground to top of it's back. The body of the deer is going to be around 18" at most probably a little less than that since it's a small deer. 36" - 18" = 18" which is about the height of a bobcat. The cat in this pic is also shorter in length than the deer. A mountain lion would be more "stretched out" in appearance and in these pictures would be a little longer than the young deer. I would expect to distinctly see the tail which is also absent in this pic. The tail would be as long as the cat.
Now, I'm not trying to discount that lions are seen more and more and their range is expanding. Big alpha predators tend to freak people out, but in a biological sense if you think about the explosion of the wild hog population the more big predators the better.
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Well, I'm no Marlin Perkins, but this East Texan thinks it looks like a bobcat. That map of cougar mortality in Texas looks strange. I guess the one in Dallam county in the corner of the panhandle may have come down from Colorado or New Mexico. The one in Cass Co.(NE corner), who knows, but I wouldn't be too surprised by almost anything that was found in Sulphur River bottoms.
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BTW...I am in Polk County.
I'm near certain it is a Bobcat.
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Jaguarundis have relatively short legs. One color phase was once thought to be a separate cat, called an eyra.


I think the odds here favor a bobcat. But I can't rule out a jaguarundi, especially if the OP is in southern Texas. It might also be an ocelot. I don't think we have margays or oncillas that far north. And they're smaller.
I concur. Jaguarundis also have a longer, slimmer body. I see some faint spotting but I think an ocelot would be more definitely spotted (same with a margay. Only wild ocelots I've seen were in Belize and Guatemala. Oncillas are really small in comparison. The "tail" could be some brush==if so, I'd vote bobcat.
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Yep what appears to be the "tail" on the cat is a piece of grass or brush that you can see in the deer pic as well. The deer is standing a little further right than the cat is in the pic. You can tell that by looking at the trees in the background. If you look under the deer's belly you will see a clump of grass that looks like a capital N. The cat pic the piece of grass that makes the diagonal slash in the "N clump" is what could be construed as a tail.
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Mountain lions are classified as a "small" cat because of their vocalizations (I can't remember=either they can purr and large cats can't or large cats roar and small cats can't=has to do with construction of the vocal chords). I've heard mt lions "scream" several times.
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