Must have been one of these:
Maybe even a whole pack.
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Originally posted by El Cid 91That picture was taken in Meggett. Again, those marks are a a few months old but I have not seen any unusual tracks. I’ve seen a couple of small Bobcat tracks but he didn’t leave those clawmarks. Couple that with the wild dogs attacking all of those goats (killed 26 I think?) and yes, I pack heat when I walk through the woods.
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Could it have been a black bear? I’m not disagreeing with the big cat theory, but I used to hunt on the Willmsbg/G’twn county line when I lived in Charleston and we had bears on our club. Had one come out to a corn pile one time while I was hunting. Checked out the woods after the season and found trees that had been clawed up like crazy. Just a thought…
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Are these black cats that are being seen jaguars or a black phase of the mt. lion?
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Originally posted by talbertbquote:
Originally posted by El Cid 91That picture was taken in Meggett. Again, those marks are a a few months old but I have not seen any unusual tracks. I’ve seen a couple of small Bobcat tracks but he didn’t leave those clawmarks. Couple that with the wild dogs attacking all of those goats (killed 26 I think?) and yes, I pack heat when I walk through the woods.
“Strange things are afoot at the Circle K”
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Could it have been a black bear? I’m not disagreeing with the big cat theory, but I used to hunt on the Willmsbg/G’twn county line when I lived in Charleston and we had bears on our club. Had one come out to a corn pile one time while I was hunting. Checked out the woods after the season and found trees that had been clawed up like crazy. Just a thought…
I originally thought it was probably a bear but the DNR agent disagreed with me and thought it was a panther, I don’t think I’d like to meet either up close.
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Originally posted by edistobradIf you find any cat tracks, have a ruler handy with the photo or better yet get a mold made of it. Because of the work I do, I have a small amount of quick drying mortar mix in my truck. That would make a great cast of a wild animal track. I just wish that I would have thought about using it when I found the cat track beside the deer carcass. Live and learn. Besides I was on a time schedule that day and hate being late.
If you want a good cast, keep some cheap hairspray with you. Spray the track indirectly and let it set up for a minute. The hairspray preserves the smaller details, especially in sand. When you pour your mortar, pour it over something and into the track instead of directly into it. This keeps the liquid from washing away any detail. When photographing, any object that is constant in size works to give scale. A dollar bill beside the print for example.
Not to discourage all the panther talk, but that looks like pretty typical bobcat sign to me. They claw trees just like your cat claws the porch posts up. I’ve seen sign just like that before, and trail cameras have proven it’s a bob. That being said, I have seen a black panther in Meggett, and I know two other people who have seen her as well. You say these pics were taken in Meggett, so . . . . There are also scattered reports of black bear sightings around Edisto, although I’ve never seen one personally. Just my two cents.
These black panther sightings (the legitimate ones at least) are not truly black panthers. They are likely darker patterned Cougars. Cougars, like many animals can vary greatly in their appearance.
by dark do you mean a melanistic phase of the cougar?
I have seen a camel in the back country of Meggett in a fenced in pen. Maybe the owner has big cats and bears too just like the owner of Hope Plantation in Jacksonboro, Ted Turner, has exotic wild animals.
I agree with the idea that coon dogs did the scratching around the hole in the tree. Just the coon ging up that tree would be enough for my dogs to eat at the hole if it took me a long time to get there.
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Like it better than coon dogs:smiley:
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El Cid’s pics are from a “gnawing coon dog.” Some dogs do this all the time - with their teeth, not claws.
The deer carcass is a bobcat cache - typical in every way, including the tracks.
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Originally posted by flyinghighby dark do you mean a melanistic phase of the cougar?
Not necessarily a melanistic phase. Just a darker color. Melanistic would mean that the cat was solid black. Cougars can range from very light tan to a dark, dark bronze shade that could easily be confused as black with as quick as these encounters usually are.
Just to be clear, panthers, cougars, mountain lions - they are all the same cat. At least in North America. Every region calls them something different and different colors have different names, but they are all the same animals. Florida panthers, for instance, which are black, are a subspecies of the same critter in the Rockies called a mountain lion.
You got it right up until the end. Not all Florida panthers are black.
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Originally posted by LeeTaylorPropertiesJust to be clear, panthers, cougars, mountain lions - they are all the same cat. At least in North America. Every region calls them something different and different colors have different names, but they are all the same animals. Florida panthers, for instance, which are black, </font id=“red”> are a subspecies of the same critter in the Rockies called a mountain lion.
A florida panther is not black. its the same tawny color as every other Mt Lion in North America.
We have seen a Black Panther out in Awendaw where I grew up. 6 people have seen it that I know of. All black, 5 foot long or so, and the tail looked like it was as long as the body, if not more. One leap, and it was across the road and gone out of sight. Pretty rare sight, but I assure you, that they are around in atlest small numbers. There is also a Gray Wolf that has been spotted by me and my dad on Halfway Creek Road in Awendaw two days in a row. Have not seen him since. I assume he was from the Seewee Gray wolf exibit, but who knows.
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i grew up in awendaw myself and still live here, i have always heard of " black panthers" just personally do not believe it. The wolf project which you refer to would be the red wolf program and they do not look like a grey wolf. Maybe you saw a coyote?