Caught in a big rain storm...Luna the pet panther

[Debp]

I think this is in Siberia.   Beautiful animal.   They have a black Panther and a Rottweiler.

@ladypeartree @JohnD

[ladypeartree]

I think I am glad to be allergic to cats 

[Debp]

1 minute ago, ladypeartree said:

I think I am glad to be allergic to cats 

That's quite a beautiful cat though.   I just ran across their videos now.

[Neighbor]

 Hi,

A good filler till the eagles fly, I mean nests again.

Actually there is present day information. Caution; it gets a tad like a romance book LOL

See  https://www.friendsofbigbearvalley.org/eagle-stories/ for today's latest - There is already romance in the air.

[Neighbor]

Hi again the report on  the eagles is so well done I do hope you take up the mantle so to speak and do a following of the Big Bear eagles thread again for this season.

[ladypeartree]

wow snow already ?????  I hate that white stuff   

[Patticats]

@Debp Luna is a beautiful Cat in this video. We have a Cat named Luna!  Plus two more Cats.

[JohnD]

9 hours ago, Debp said:

I think this is in Siberia.   Beautiful animal.   They have a black Panther and a Rottweiler.

@ladypeartree @JohnD

She is gorgeous! All cats have certain traits in common. We have a feral munchkin cat (one of three in the liter) but only she is feral. Gi Gi to this day is skiddish around me (though at times she climbed up in my lap for some petting). We guess she's just skiddish around males (I'm the only one in our house of two adults, two pups, and four kitties). Gi Gi and my Beloved Bride get along as if Gi Gi wasn't feral at all.

We've had other ferals in the past who were so comfortable with both of us that we forgot they were wild until a stranger came into the picture.

This is Gi Gi:

[other one]

There were two families of wild Panthers close to where I grew up and where my grandparents lived.  We ran across them hunting several times.  They are beautiful animals up close where this one is, but at 2 AM in the middle of forest land they are scary as .......

When they scream at night it puts one into that flight mode for it's way past fight.

[Sower]

26 minutes ago, other one said:

There were two families of wild Panthers close to where I grew up and where my grandparents lived.  We ran across them hunting several times.  They are beautiful animals up close where this one is, but at 2 AM in the middle of forest land they are scary as .......

When they scream at night it puts one into that flight mode for it's way past fight.

Haven't been in many moons, but I always go check out the cats when at the zoo. The only time I considered being a meal was when in the Nam with the Bengal tigers. They eat villagers too. Today they are extinct in Viet Nam. They are really BIG, and scary.

 

 

 

 

In Texas we have the mountain lion, also known as the puma or cougar,  a large cat that lives in parts of Texas.
My sister sighted one that was dark believing it to be Panther near the cattle pen, but they are not native in Texas, so it was probably a Puma.

                                                                                       Black Puma

                      

 

Mountain Lion.  Cattle ranches are weary of them..
Texas is the only state that doesn't prohibit hunting and trapping of mountain lions. There is no closed season on mountain lions in Texas, and hunters can use any lawful means to hunt them on private property.  Pets turn up missing. There are videos of them
coming into homes, and attacking pets. They go where the food is.   They get up to seven (7) feet long. Black panthers are actually black leopards or black jaguars, and these cats live mostly in Florida.