Yikes...Big Cat (Panther) in The Villages
 

Whaaat?

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What village?

Did you take the picture personally?

Click where it says "Whaaat?"

See post #4

Story and picture about the "cat" is in the News site that shall not be named on here..

My golf group saw a panther, two years ago, as we were approaching the second hole on Pelican. the big cat came from between to houses onto the black tees and ran into the high grass. when we told other people they doubted what we saw.

We were out walking in the neighborhood one morning about 6:00 AM and saw a cat almost this size. It was not light enough to distinguish color, but it was definitely a smaller panther. Came from between two houses, stopped in the street and looked at us, then continued across the street between two other homes and down to the shore of lake Miona. He or she was only about 30 feet in front of us. Beautiful animal. Happened to fast to get a picture but was a smaller version of this one with the same long tail. Probably in the 100 to 120 pound range.

If anyone knows Robert Hubbard of Villa Berea, I would wonder if he could place an object of known size or a yard stick at the spot where the cat is seen in the photo, and then show us the photo of that known object taken by the same camera. There is a major size difference in a bobcat vs a panther. There is at least one bobcat that lives in the area of Heron/Pelican as we have seen it both on Pelican #9 and Heron #8, definitely a bobcat.

A bobcat has almost no tail, it looks like it was bobbed. Hence bobcat. This photograph shows a long full tail.

Bobcats do not have long tails like this fellow.

http://www.phossil.com/thom/Florida%20Panther.jpg

People always say Panthers are very rare this far north in Florida. Here's a photo taken east of Gainesville by a motion activated camera at 2am chasing a wild boar not long for this earth. If you search TOTV, you will find these reports in TV usually about the same time other posters report wild pigs digging up their yards near Heron Executive. If a poster saw one a couple of years ago at Pelican, that makes sense because it is right next to Heron. That seems like the area they always hang out when they come this way, the area just south of Lake Miona around Heron, Pelican and Hibiscus nine at Cane Garden.

Identify a Bobcat - National Bobcat Rescue and Research Foundation

That does look like a panther.

I was told to watch out for the cougars while I was here.

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