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Here is my opinion on mountain lions in Virginia- click the link for a read

A google search this morning turned up nothing more on the guy that was attacked - you know someone has looked at his wounds

All I know is there has to be about 1000 black panthers (the furry 4 legged kind) in the east and southeast. If I had a dime for every person that has told me they've seen a black panther, I'd be rich.

i have had police friends tell me that the park people have brought western mountain lions hear a released them on the shenandoah national park to help control the deer population.they know they are here.

"Hell, I Was There" Then. Ditto.

My brother and his hunting partners were seeing wolves while elk hunting annually in Frank Church Wilderness (Middle Fork Salmon) 5 years before they were "introduced" or acknowledged.

I met a griz with cubs in northern Idaho in the late 60's where none existed.... so there was a male around as well.

It's a conspiracy......

That's the going thing around here right now. Everywhere you go someone saw a black panther.

No question in my mind at all. Both my son and my ex had lions cross the road in front of them near Winchester. Hell, my cousin has seen one twice while deer hunting near La Plata, Maryland. The first time, it circled around his deer stand growling and in general acting like an ass. Kinda un-nerving for a guy hunting with a point-ed stick.

Won't be long before some azz says, "if the experts say they're not there, they're not there".

I don't necessarily buy into the stories about the game people bringing them in to control deer. They probably were never entirely gone.

Having moved around a BUNCH, I've heard it EVERYWHERE. The last two cases were all near waterways (rivers, creeks) and I told them my guess was an otter. They weren't buying that.

My wife showed me a post from facebook a couple weeks ago from a citizen that had taken a picture of a black panther that was dead on the side of the road. When people told her it was a large black pitbull that was ran over the battle heated up because it had to be a panther because "pitbulls don't have tails."


We have people around here that won't leave their house because someone saw a black panther in their area. A guy told me the other day that they had to be real because his preacher saw one driving home one night, lol.


At least it's not just around here.

Bigfoot of the southeast!

We got them too.


Had a guy a couple years ago tell me a grizzly bear came up to his tree stand, stood on it's hind legs, and rested it's chin on his tree stand foot platform that was 17' up. He would have shot it but it was bow season.

And folks wonder how Obama got elected.....twice.

buddy told me onetime, sit in this blind i saw a black panther here yesterday. after sitting there about a hr a big black house cat came walking across the sendero.

Oh, they exist alright. And in large numbers. They just don't show up in pictures, just like vampires don't.

Admitting a species exists in range that it's historically been eradicated from leaves states open to meddling from the feral govt.

Once those scumbags and their toadies invoke the ESA, any economic, infrastructure or resource development gets severely suppressed.

The shoot, shovel, shut-up protocol should be in effect here.

http://www.whsv.com/content/news/NEW-PHOTOS-Man-attacked-by-bobcat-near-Humpback-Rock-385474351.html

well,as pedicted. it was a bobcat not a mountain lion.

so they say.

I once had a large male bobcat walk under my ne of my stands. It was a beautiful cat, almost devoid of spots and about 45 lbs. I knew what it was immediately as it stood at 20 yards. For months the neighbors told me stories of a cougar they had seen recently. I know it was that bobcat.

I see a "black panther" at least once a week when leaving to go to work or coming back home when I pass my neighbor's house. I'm pretty sure it comes to visit the neighbor's female cat.

Just read in the Richmond Times Dispatch that a large bobcat was responsible for the attack....