Fairly close to my place. We have had mountain lions through here before. Seems every couple of years one shows up.
https://neighbors.ring.com/n/VglYrbLc4z
https://neighbors.ring.com/n/VglYrbLc4z
What do you think it is
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GasGuzzler
Hawkeye
Looks like a big feral cat to me. We have them all over the neighborhood. I am in the process of ridding myself of some of them right now. They use the bathroom in my yard and capitulate in my front hedges. Just ran off a pair as the females are in heat.
It is one more big cat for sure.... for those who are anti click on the link, it is a video of a critter walking through a side yard... here are two enlarged pictures of it from the video I made.
Looks to me like a juvenile mountain lion....old enough to have lost the spots but not full grown. The body length, ear spread and thickness of tail spell lion to me. I ran across several in Southern Cali and Utah.
Feral cats around me are scraggly things.....I take out a few every month. The woods are full of them. Summer time my front beds smell like cat urine and my fire pit is filled with cat turds.
Feral cats around me are scraggly things.....I take out a few every month. The woods are full of them. Summer time my front beds smell like cat urine and my fire pit is filled with cat turds.
contender
Ruger Guru
Yep,, I concur,, a younger mountain lion.
RugerForMe
Blackhawk
I'm not sold on it being a Mountain Lion, movements seem a bit off and the tail seems a bit short. Tryting to judge size off the water access panel in the lawn looks really small to me.
jesser76
Bearcat
It's a cat 100% for sure
GasGuzzler
Hawkeye
Ours are 20-ish pounds ... the dominant males anyway. Tough to get an idea of weight by the picture.
Most mountain lions have a black tip on their tail. This seems to be white. Truly hard to tell just how big or small it is without something to compare it to. House cats hold their tails high but generally feral cats carry them as this cat is.
I believe I wouldn’t have a problem labeling that as a young mountain lion. Or a cougar whatever you wanna call him the curved tail is definitely a solid signature for cougar.
I was trying to judge it's size by comparing it to the steps & hose. Looks like a big feral cat to me.
OP
Bit more info. The white tip turned out to be the bright sun reflecting off of a black tip. Whoever posted the video hasn't responded to requests for more info. So I'm going to go with the people online and here that think it's a younger lion. I wonder if the poster ever contacted any animal groups for more information on what the video shows.
GasGuzzler
Hawkeye
It's about 50/50 here.
jesser76
Bearcat
There are no black mountain lions , and the tail is too short . Common cat is what it is
jesser76
Bearcat
What's so funny XUSNORDIE ? Show me proof of black mountain lions wise guy. Or even a gray one
Easy there Francis.........nobody but you mentioned it being black.....nobody brought up gray either.......
But since you asked I will answer.......A: YOU are funny!
Do whatever it is that calms you and have great night.
jesser76
Bearcat
Did you watch the video? It's dark gray.
Yes and that's why I replied the way I did in post #4.
I also have experience/encounters with mountain lions.
I also review video almost every day as part of my profession and know cameras, especially external/static home security cams folks buy off of Amazon or in the local big box stores have varied resolution depending on the light conditions.
jesser76
Bearcat
So then how can it be a mountain lion if it's gray?
You are the only one saying it's gray.....as I said about cameras reacting to light conditions it make things look different. Pretty sure I stated that......
Either way I'm not losing sleep over it....
Either way I'm not losing sleep over it....
jesser76
Bearcat
Alright. Maybe the color in the video is off, but nothing else about it looks like a mountain lion, do you have your experience/encounters with mountain lions in Pennsylvania?
Southern California and Utah.
I always thought the low cut top and tight pants were the solid signs of a cougar.
OHHH you meant the 4 legged kind!!!
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Looking at the video and the tip is white no matter where he/she is in the shots.
protoolman
Service-Sixer
I wasn't going to comment at first but after studying on it I'm going to say cat. Not mountain lion. It does appear the tip of the tail is catching sunlight so no opinion on that but it looks too dark for a lion in my opinion and my opinion on that is based on one I scared away at 20 feet years ago and one I picked up and turned over to fish and game that got hit by a car. Both were adults. So yeah, just a wild guess by an amateur. On another note what are you guys calling a feral cat? I'm assuming a neighborhood outdoor cat. Like one that won't let you pet it?
That's a standard issue Felis catus. If you look, when it's by the stairs, the stairs are pretty wide, maybe 12 inches, and it's about the length (not including the tail), of the width of a stair and a half, so about 18 inches.
This is "l.a.", and people have kept, raised, bred, sold, and lost big cats for over a hundred years. Like crossbred jaguar, jaguarundi, panther, et.c.
Feral cats in my area are scraggly nasty flea infested scabbed over things that are smaller than a typical house cat. The woods are filled with them. My side property is filled with their remains, a collar or two may also be in there. I catch them at my feeders, urinating in the beds and spraying my tires, crapping in my fire pit or lounging on my deck furniture they lose all lives they had remaining. Some crazed couple at the base of the mountain have a depleted barn filled with them. They pour bags of food on the ground. There a re dead ones on and beside the roads near that barn. Disgusting. Nasty things can't weigh more than 5 pounds at most. The shovel doesn't feel heavy even with two of them on it.
My buddy growing up had some huge barn cats, probably over 12 pounds. Those things were not to be messed with either. We would shoot pigeons and watch them fight over them. They never messed with the chickens or ducks but more than once we saw them fighting bob cats and red fox at night.
My wife had two Maine Coons when I started dating her.....those things were big and heavy, over 20 pounds. I'm allergic to them so they had to go....
In Southern Cal it wasn't unusual to have mountain lions sleeking around neighborhoods. I lived in Ramona for a bit and there were numerous sightings/community warnings that a cat was cruising around. The valley/ranch we hunted you occasionally saw lion kills stuffed in trees and rocks. The rancher hated them...they loved his goats.
Hunt certain parts of Utah in the snow and you learn fast that there are big cats with you.....but I've already shared that story. I still get a chill when I think about it.
My buddy growing up had some huge barn cats, probably over 12 pounds. Those things were not to be messed with either. We would shoot pigeons and watch them fight over them. They never messed with the chickens or ducks but more than once we saw them fighting bob cats and red fox at night.
My wife had two Maine Coons when I started dating her.....those things were big and heavy, over 20 pounds. I'm allergic to them so they had to go....
In Southern Cal it wasn't unusual to have mountain lions sleeking around neighborhoods. I lived in Ramona for a bit and there were numerous sightings/community warnings that a cat was cruising around. The valley/ranch we hunted you occasionally saw lion kills stuffed in trees and rocks. The rancher hated them...they loved his goats.
Hunt certain parts of Utah in the snow and you learn fast that there are big cats with you.....but I've already shared that story. I still get a chill when I think about it.
