Bobcat
We have them here, and willing to swear to it, your looking at a mountain lion, not a bobcat, deal with both, and that is a lion.
I want one!
Clearly and obviously, it’s a mountain lion.
Bobcat or lynx. Probably lynx.
Saber-toothed cat
It looks kinda strange with its head down. Bobcats usually go around with their heads up, on the watch for mountain lions.
Big Lynx.
http://ctmountainlion.org/category/sightings/
They're supposed not to be in Georgia either, yet I saw one crossing a road south of Columbus 10 or 12 years ago. Florida panther I imagine.
Large bobcat.
That looks like a bobcat to me. There have been a number of verified bobcat sightings in Massachusetts this winter. A mountain lion was killed in a traffic accident in CT in June 2011.
I saw a bobcat in Concord, MA about seven years ago. Scary looking creature. I don’t want anything to do with them.
That’s a cougar.
48 – 56 cm at the shoulder
30 to 60 cm at the shoulder
120 to 150 cm at the shoulder
Dunno... can't tell from this distance.
We kept having sightings in our state of mountain lions but were told they were bobcats. Then a mountain lion got hit by a car.
Clearly a bobcat as there is no tail and the shape of the nape of the neck makes it a Bobcat. Do I win?
Wompus Cat if I ever saw one.
From those photos, looks like a Bobcat.
Online sources say a bobcat averages 19 - 23lbs and that the largest ever recorded was 49 pounds. Bobcats average 24 inches in length.
I don’t believe that is a bobcat in the picture. The size and the silhouette are not bobcat. In this video - pics of bobcats followed by pics of cougar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1AL3RDT0zE
At the 1:19 mark is a cougar with the silhouette of the animal in the picture. The bobcats are boxy and furry enough to look cute and obscure musculature. But the cougar has more contours. I think the animal may be carrying something - read about a guy who created an optical device to detect whether or not his cat, returning through the cat door at night, had mice or other dead animals in his mouth. He created a sensor that would not open the cat door unless the cat’s head profile fit within a certain range (no dead animals). He stopped finding dead animals in his house but would find them deposited just outside the cat door.
So I think the animal is a cougar which may or may not be carrying something.
Poor kitty.