Cougar or Bobcat?

[famousguy]

I got an interesting picture on my trail cam.
Cougar or Bobcat?

[Polarice]

Cougar?

Cool pic.

[whitehorse]

Cougar

[psindust]

Looks to me like a bobcat

[polarisrider1]

I have seen Bobcats, up close and personal. That looks like a German Shepard.

[600rev]

chupacabra? LOL! bobcat

[Dave_B]

If I had Waynes vision, I would say German Shepard too.

Looks like a Bobcat to me. Cool pic, either way.

[bigriverjeff]

cougar

[mxz500rider]

Looks like a cougar. I saved the image to my smart phone and was able to enlarge the pic.

[windingtrailgal]

I have seen Bobcats, up close and personal. That looks like a German Shepard.

Laughed SO hard. Are you sure it wasn't an international bobcat or a case cougar??

[snowshoe]

Bobcat. Cougars generally have blonde hair and push up bras!

[700classic]

Its a stick!

OH, Wait there's something in the background!

[catdog]

Neighbor’s cat

[98panther]

jackalope

[snowbound83]

Looks like cougar to me

[dickmsp]

Dang.. didn't have my tri focals on... thought this was pics on a TAIL cam of the frisky house wife type cougars!!! Not some dam dog...

[radsrh]

Hard to tell with the darkness and not seeing a tail or lack there of. Just based on the size of the cat I would say cougar?

[polarisrider1]

I got an interesting picture on my trail cam.
Cougar or Bobcat?And the answer is..................

[KipiMak]

Bobcat

[chicagosledder]

Most likely a Bobcat as Cougars are only known to frequent late night establishments with a lot of make up on while chain smoking.

[lesledhead]

First off, are those carrots, beats or what laying there? You can judge the size of the cat by comparing it to known objects close by. There have been several confirmed cougar sightings in Michigan and Wisconsin, so it would be no surprise if this is a cougar, which it looks like to me. At first I though, house cat. Then when I compared it to the "stuff" laying around, I though "Woah."

[radsrh]

Ok after lesledhead's post I looked again at the picture, if those are carrots laying around there I would have to say Bobcat? I have seen one of each over the years, the bobcat I saw was smaller then this one and the cougar was much bigger then this one.

[gary_in_neenah]

I'm no expert and would rather neither cross my path on a dark winter's night. It looks kind of thick in the shoulders and rear to me. Not sure if a Bobcat would be that heavy in early December.

[misty_pines]

Bobcat.

[HardwaterHoosier]

My wife just got a pic of a cougar (deer in mouth) in Dowagiac, MI on facebook.
125 miles apart? There could be a couple passing through.

[lesledhead]

I was going to add that my brother swears he saw one run across US31 about 1/4 mile north of the St. Joe river in Niles a couple months ago. Could be the one you mentioned in Dowagiac, MI.

[trailshredder]

With all the black spots on it I'm saying Bobcat.

[famousguy]

First off, are those carrots, beats or what laying there? You can judge the size of the cat by comparing it to known objects close by. There have been several confirmed cougar sightings in Michigan and Wisconsin, so it would be no surprise if this is a cougar, which it looks like to me. At first I though, house cat. Then when I compared it to the "stuff" laying around, I though "Woah."

Carrots & corn.

[buddah2]

Neck looks too long for a bobcat........so my vote = cougar

[EXCESSIVE FORCE]

Neighbor’s cat


x2

[gogebic_sledder]

tabby

[7707]

Need to see the tail to be sure. So i'am sayin........... Dogman.......oh wait Bigfoot.....no Bobgar.
Cougar are out there in lower Mich. The DNR finially even agrees with those of us who have either seen them or signs of there presence.

[buddah2]

I finally downloaded the pic to somewhere I could zoom in........is it too late to change my vote to housecat?

[snowsdog1]

House Cat!

[HardwaterHoosier]

Here's the picture from Dowagiac, MI. It makes you wonder how long they have been around and are just now being noticed because of the increase use of trail cameras.

[HardwaterHoosier]

I was going to add that my brother swears he saw one run across US31 about 1/4 mile north of the St. Joe river in Niles a couple months ago. Could be the one you mentioned in Dowagiac, MI.
A guy in Baroda has pictures of them too.

[kwarp]

buddy of mine snuck out to my camera that is watching my food plot and took the card out, took it home and put a kangaroo in the middle of the food plot onto the card. Thought I was going crazy when I took the card and reviewed it...kept rubbing my eyes, couldnt believe it!! got me real good.

i say cougar

[chords]

30331

[catalac]

buddy of mine snuck out to my camera that is watching my food plot and took the card out, took it home and put a kangaroo in the middle of the food plot onto the card. Thought I was going crazy when I took the card and reviewed it...kept rubbing my eyes, couldnt believe it!! got me real good.
Thats friggin awesome!! Your buddys are cool!
That made me laugh my ``` off! .....


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i say cougar...
Don't know what happened to this post.. It's all messed up.

[renegade]

That pic from Dowagiac has been around for a few years now and is fake. Since I've seen it last, someone has added a stand in the background. It was supposedly a pic near cornell, wi at that time.

[reiley99]

I was riding a few weeks ago and seen some big cat tracks by a torn up deer carcass by l'anse I would say they're 5 to 6 inches acrossed

[lesledhead]

Here's the picture from Dowagiac, MI. It makes you wonder how long they have been around and are just now being noticed because of the increase use of trail cameras.

Did a little google search, found the real story on that image hardwater. It's not a fake photo, but it's not in Michigan either.

http://www.buckmanager.com/2009/05/21/mountain-lion-really-killed-this-whitetail/

Back to this story, the more I look at the pic, the more I'm leaning towards bobcat.

Tony

[HardwaterHoosier]

^ weird we got the pic the same day this post was started. Good job on the research!

[polarisrider1]

So have we ruled out a german shepard? Neighbors siamese mix cat? Cougar? Bobcat? Dogman?, Catdog? Fake pic? Or are we still at square one?

[Sled Solutions]

I say Cougar.

[scott_d]

cougar

[jakerides]

I got an interesting picture on my trail cam.
Cougar or Bobcat?
Could be a Canadian Lynx. They are a bigger relative to the bobcat. I have seen them out west.

[dear_lodge]

Bobcat

[anonomoose]

Here is a clue....look closely at the ears...bobcat ears are not located quite in the same place as cougar flaps.

[polarisman_98]

Could be a Canadian Lynx. They are a bigger relative to the bobcat. I have seen them out west.

I had a guy look at it and first thing he said was Lynx too. Could be...