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Posted on 08/24/2013 11:32:05 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Stray dogs are a common sight in Detroit. What about a big cat?
According to reports, many residents on the city’s northeast side have seen what appears to be an exotic cat, perhaps as tall as four feet, roaming the streets.
Officials with the Michigan Humane Society said they have received several calls about the animal and workers are out in the city, trying to find the feline.
Antwaun Asberry, a 6-foot-5 Detroiter, told the Detroit Free Press the cat’s tail is longer than his arm.
“I was like, what the (expletive) … I don’t know what it is. I just want it gone,” Asberry said. ”He walked like he ain’t scared of nothing… This thing is out here, bro.”
(Excerpt) Read more at detroit.cbslocal.com ...
You’ve seen those videos and pics of San Francisco from the 20’s or 30’s? That city was nothing like SF today.
The Zoo in Royal Oak...must have been the one I visted as a kid.
Id have remembered the “stuff” you mentioned as having been in Belle Isle.
Thanks.
Someone’s exotic pet escaped.
We had a cougar spotted by Park Rangers 3 blocks from my home in Indiana.
If there are coyotes in NYC there can be a cougar in Detroit.
We had a cougar spotted by Park Rangers 3 blocks from my home in Indiana.
If there are coyotes in NYC there can be a cougar in Detroit.
Humbling, ain’t it?
Although it was in Royal Oak it was called the Detroit zoo. One of the first in the nation to exhibit animals in a more or less natural setting, not it cages, and for that time pre 1940 it was quite a zoo. The small zoo on Belle Isle was just called the Belle Isle zoo, not the Detroit zoo. Belle Isle was one of the city parks. They had many are were quite large for a city park. Palmer Park near 7 mile had large ponds, and the original cabin or the Palmer family who donated the land. (if my old memory is correct. Lots of picnic tables and bbq area’s...Detroit use to be a beautiful place....I lived on Omira, between 7 and 8 mile and all the homes had large elm trees in front of each home. In the summer it was like traveling through on a road that had the tree’s on each side of the street touching each other at the top, like a tree tunnel. One year a blight hit the elm and most were cut down and none replaced them....it was kinda naked with so many tree’s gone... really should have been replaced with younger trees...Some trees didn’t get the blight for some reason so they were scattered along the street...Milk man had a horse drawn wagon and so did the ice man...A man would walk down the middle of the street pushing a large grinding wheel and he would sharpen all your knives and scissors. Most people had Ice boxes and not refrigerators. Seems like it was on another planet now.....:O)
I am not a snarky poster, as most of you know.
What I saw in my yard tonight was not a coyote or a cougar or bobcat, or mountain lion.
I have lived in the high desert of Arizona for twenty years - and I have never seen an animal like I saw tonight.
My puppy was barking violently - so I went to the patio doors to see what was causing her to be so disturbed.
A VERY large feline was walking away from my patio - it looked like it weighed at least 80 lbs. It had stripes and spots, and it’s tail was about two feet long, yet not dragging like a mountain lion’s tail.
I have seen mountain lions here, bobcats and even Eurasian lynx - but never have I seen a feline like this.
And, it could be the same animal as in the above post.
Does anybody have any ideas of what this could be?
Was it a male or a female?
Jaguar?
The jaguar’s range includes Arizona.
Would sure like to know what you saw. If you find out, let us know....
We also had a bear spotted in my area in Imlay City.(MIchigan) He was heading north and was spotted going up that way...The local paper kept us informed on its trek. That was within 1/2 mile from my home and also 2 different people spotted a cougar crossing I 69 heading north...Of course if the gov't does not see it, it doesn't exist...Both would find a lot of prey, the state is lousy with deer, nice corn fed ones from the farmers that raise acres of corn..
Yorkie, someone as sweet as you wouldn't know how to snark :O)
Totally beautiful as long as he’s not thinking of you as dinner....easy prey, don’t even have to pull off thick hide and fur to get to that soft pink meat....
Ocelot?
Great big guy, scared of a kitteh. Caution around wild cats is certainly called for, but public displays of timorousness are unmanly.
What was the size of the head compared to the body?
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