Ain't no panthers in Louisiana swamp!!!!

Anybody have some fresh panther poboys. But it's just an optical illusion. Definitely a raccoon/bobcat mix breed.

I have never heard WL&F say they do not exist. What they say does not exist is a BLACK panther. Cool pics. This your property?

They do exist in Louisiana and no one has denied that. They deny the existence of black panthers and that is the vast majority of sightings.

Max around which area is that from? How far south?
Zeb Doucet

I live in cut off; it's not that far from here. Within an hour.

Oh yeah and if you ever heard one scream in the night you don't forget

Screaming panthers oh my!

Most of what people hear and think are panthers are actually barn owls. Google barn owl scream and listen

i don't know if i have ever heard a panther scream but i have heard a cougar moan

you are right a barn owl makes a chilling sound, but nothing like a Big Cat. They also don't leave padded foot prints. The one I saw was along the river

There have been 5 bonafide confirmations of cougars in Louisiana. See the confirmation map here and click on the numbers in Louisiana for the information about each cougar verified: http://www.cougarnet.org/confirmations

As far as 'black panthers' are concerned, about the only chance that Louisiana has ever had a wild 'black' big cat at any time in the past was probably the melanistic (black) phase of the southern jaguar - which 'may' have been here in numbers before the 18th century. There has never ever been a 'black' cougar confirmed in the entire USA.

Any other actual 'black panther' sighted in Louisiana may have been an escaped black African leopard from a zoo (supposedly rumors have one escaped a small zoo at Chicot State Park at one time) or whenever the Carolina Panthers play the Saints in the Superdome.

Maxcheramie, Have you contacted La. Wildlife and Fisheries about this sighting? In order to verify they would need a copy of the photos and then would visit the scene to and try to gather more evidence- especially DNA from fur or scat. On occasion cougars/mountain lion are sighted and verified in Louisiana. The La. Wildlife & Fisheries Dept. biologists maintain that there is not yet a breeding population in the state. Young male cougars will travel very long distances. This cat probable came from Texas or Arkansas where there are resident populations. On a daily basis a Cougar will cover 25 miles- 10 day = 250 miles!!

Was this is Lafourche parish?

I just think it is funny that everybody and their Momma has seen or heard a panther. If only HALF of the people that claim to have seen/heard one actually did, there would be a panther behind every tree.....

Tuff - that has awesome BTW

http://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/wildlife-reporting/mountain-lion-reports/mountain-lion-signs

People can say whatever they want. I have personally seen 2 cougars where I hunt in central LA. The people at the wildlife and fisheries office all but called me a liar when I told them about it. They repeatedly told me that what I saw was a bobcat. If anyone has ever seen a 150 lb bobcat with a 3 ft tail, I would sure like to know about it. I spend enough time in the woods, that I can identify what I see. I never said what I saw was black because it wasn't. There may not be many, but there are cougars here.

The fact is there are cougars in la., nobody denies that. But a black one depends on what you call black. The melanistic color phase of black does not occur in cougars, but a simple google search will show pics of some that were so dark chocolate colored as to appear black, esp. in dim light.

Thirty five years ago I saw a large dark grey cat while deer hunting in Jackson Parish. I saw the cat cross an open lane (20' wide) about fifty yards from me. It was crouching as if stalking and had a long tail. It looked like the picture in this report. Other hunters in our group laughed when told about the large cat. A game warden we spoke to later that day said it may be a Florida Panther. There were numerous large cat tracks in the area and cat could be heard growling, which at times sounded like a crying sound. Some years later while hunting at Three Rivers WMA I saw a bobcat 20' away and there is no way to mistake a bobcat for a panther.