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Video shows monster-sized mystery cat in MississippiĀ field
WREG ^
Posted on 10/14/2017 2:18:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin
"I can assure you this is not a house cat," Sluder said in a Facebook post. "It looks to be the same size as a medium to large dog."
Wildlife officials have said that big cats like panthers or cougars have been extinct in Mississippi for 100 years due to habitat changes and hunting, but people claim to have spotted the animals over the past 30 years . "Most biologists credit these sightings to misidentification, released exotic pets or (rarely) animals passing through from places like Texas where lions still live," the Mississippi State University Extension Service says.
No word what species this giant feline might be.
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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cat; mississippi
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posted on
10/14/2017 2:18:57 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
There is a relatively new fad of hybrid house cats that are huge. Larger than most dogs.
To: BenLurkin
Looks like a Panther to me.
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posted on
10/14/2017 2:22:44 PM PDT
by
crosdaddy
To: BenLurkin
Looks like a young mountain lion, out hunting mice in the grass.
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posted on
10/14/2017 2:24:01 PM PDT
by
thecodont
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
The shape of its head seems panther-like.
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posted on
10/14/2017 2:24:17 PM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
To: BenLurkin
Just a big black cat and not necessarily as big as they are claiming. Watch it pounce on probably a mouse.............
To: BenLurkin
Looks like a Cougar. Mountain Lion. Long tail gives it away.
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posted on
10/14/2017 2:26:15 PM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
To: BenLurkin
From the small head and tail size, it looks to be a mountain lion type cat. Dunno how similar that is to panthers and cougars?
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/14/2017 2:28:07 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Does not show tail length but proportions are about right.
To: BenLurkin
Looks like a panther.
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posted on
10/14/2017 2:30:29 PM PDT
by
LouAvul
(The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/14/2017 2:30:49 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: doorgunner69
“it looks to be a mountain lion type cat. Dunno how similar that is to panthers and cougars”
Three names. Same animal - except for where it lives.
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posted on
10/14/2017 2:31:08 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: BenLurkin
Hmmmm . . . Revelation 6:7-8 tells of a coming time described as a milieu of horrible death in the period when the Black Horseman is unleashed on the earth. That prophetic period includes death by animals. Again, hmmmm.
7 When the Lamb broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, Come. 8 I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.
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posted on
10/14/2017 2:32:16 PM PDT
by
righttackle44
(Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
To: tired&retired
Those Savannahs are gorgeous.
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posted on
10/14/2017 2:32:21 PM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(A person's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
To: BenLurkin
The panther is like a leopard,
Except it hasn't been peppered.
Should you behold a panther crouch,
Prepare to say Ouch.
Better yet, if called by a panther,
Don't anther. Words to live by.
To: BenLurkin
Chupacabra?
Jackalope?
Baby Bigfoot?
(snicker...)
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posted on
10/14/2017 2:33:20 PM PDT
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: MayflowerMadam
A friend of mine adopted one from an animal shelter.
It was easily as large as the one in the picture.
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