[FairOpinion]

[FairOpinion]

"And 30 minutes after it left, Hurst shot pictures of the paw prints it left behind in the snow. While the pictures may not completely relate how large it is, Hurst says trust him. The cat is huge.

"I would say that animal is in the vicinity of 3 plus feet long and stands at least 30 inches to three feet at the shoulders."


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This is a CAT GIANT!!!!!!

[DC native]

chupacabra

[FormerACLUmember]

Meow! (not photoshopped)

[JamesWilson]

"Every college has a legend ..."

[flutters]

That is a HUGE cat! I remember this story from last year. The cat in the picture looks pure black, almost like a panther. If I remember correctly, sightings from last year claimed the lion was yellow??

[Rembrandt]

The Big Cat? So that's what Andres Gallaraga has been doing since he retired.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Over the years, there's been big cat sightings in the suburbs of Boston. Last year, a woman saw a big cat drag a deer it had killed across her lawn. The TV news showed pics of the half-eaten carcass.

[sageb1]

Where I grew up (in the Adirondacks), we often had tracks in our backyard. Mountain lions, bear, you name it. More common, however, were just deer, coyote, raccoon.

[xrp]

It's probably that lion, Aslan, from Narnia.

[TWohlford]

Shrugs...

We have cougars here in southern Michigan... Jackson area... with enough sitings to believe we've got more than 1 or 2.

So why not Ohio?

[originalbuckeye]

We live in So Cal. One morning my husband was looking out our bedroom window (we abut a greenbelt hill) and there was a coyote at our fence. Our little dog is a beagle. My husband decided that the coyote's wife must have asked him to go get 'beagles for breakfast'. We never let our dog out by herself. Too many pet cats have disappeared recently. It's winter here, too, and the food supply is diminishing.

[this_ol_patriot]

Aslan is on the move.

[mmercier]

These stories are usually bunk.

Hogzilla was supposed to be 12 feet 1,00lbs. When they dug him up he was 7 feet 800lbs. He was a feral who was eating from a high test fish food bin for years.

If the forestry people actually have valid casts of the prints they would have a good guess as to actual size available pretty fast.

The picture of the pudgy man with the big cat is proof that no photograph can be trusted today. As to the photograph of the black panther, I can take one of those from my little kitty behind a bush and make here look huge. There is nothing to give perspective in that picture.

Black panther cats have been reported in all 50 US states for generations, as far as I am aware not one has ever been shot or captured.

[CarrotAndStick]

[MarineBrat]

Looks like your standard cougar/puma/panther/mountain lion/Nittany lion/Felis concolor to me.

[djreece]

An ocicat could be another possibility. We have one that roams our neighborhood, and some people are freaked out by his size.

There are other large breeds (savannahs, bengals) where domestic cats have been crossbred with wild ones: http://www.savannahcatbreed.com/faq.shtml

[GeronL]

Maine Coon Cat??

[Cementjungle]

Bigpaw!

[Rudder]

Granville is about 25 miles from me as the crow flies...too close for comfort.