I saw a 70 lb melanistic jaguar earlier this year in NC and there are many more reported if anyone cares?

One can only hope these beautiful animals can be allowed to breed and multiply as nature needs. It is such a shame that ignorant people take it for granted just for sport. To wipe out such beauty from out planet is just plain stupid. Unless you must kill it to avoid being killed, I would plead with people to only scare it by shooting warning shots. I would like to know, my grandchildren and theirs can enjoy knowing and seeing this animal forever.

Date: Sunday, Feb 19th,2012, at approximately 1:30pm. My husband and I and our border collie were just entering the Rams's Pass public walking trail, when our dog suddenly began staring down a cat that was sitting directly across from us, estimated to be 75 ft. The weight of the cat was 35-40 lbs and my first assumption because of its black coat was that it appeared to be a panther. Our dog chased the animal up a tree and it was then that I noticed the black curled tail and according to previous sightings would identify it as either a panther or a black jaguar. It was not aggressive to us, but lept in the tree and stayed there until we immediately called our dog to return to us. We continued our walk and after returning to the same destination two hrs later, it had disappeared.

We hunt the Sabine National Forest near Highway 87, and Six Mile - Opening Deer Season Weekend, 2011 November - a coworker and hunting buddy walked up on a Large Black Cat - crouched near the tree, he had been hunting the previous day. It was before daylight, but he had a very bright flashlight - and lit the cat up at about 10 feet away. He estimated it about 4 feet in body length and thick and wide - JET BLACK. There was no doubt in his mind, it was not a bobcat - it was much bigger. I have called the TPW - but they have no knowledge of large cats in the Sabine Area. He took another guy back to the spot later, where they were able to see the tracks of the cat - they were large. Several of us hunt the area - and have never seen anything like it - there is no reason to lie.

I was deer hunting in the Catalina mountains in Tucson, AZ (near sabino canyon) around 1987 and observed a large black cat with a very long black tail. It walked low to the ground. It was about 400 yards away, but I was able to watch the beautiful animal for a couple minutes. I have always wondered what kind of cat it was, but it had to be some species of jaguar or cougar.

These jaguars never left the U.S. People living in the country, especially near the creeks, see them over the years. Jaguars, BLACK ONES, not mountain lions (which we also see) live in Missippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. The government does not want people to know because it is bad for tourism. We only go in the woods with the dogs.

A few years ago my uncle and I had a 25,000 ac.hunting lease on the Rio Grande river near Laredo, Texas We observed a large Jaguar on the Texas side of the river ,heard its distinctive grunts, and found its tracks.
In addition we saw a Mountain Lion and found its tracks.
There is such a large differnce between the two animals, that mistaken identity is impossible.

Well I'm sure there will be the trophy hunters out there poaching them because heaven forbid man cannot live in harmony with nature! Man has to kill, Man has to destroy, this is what man does so you can figure that any Jaguars living in the United States will be killed by some moron just for the thrill of it!

Well the government can say all they want that they do not exist here but in fact they do. I live in central Illinois and for the last month we have spotted a black jaguar in the field across from our home. Not only have we spotted it several times but so have neighbors in which one of them is a Tazewell County Sheriffs officer who happens to live on our road. It favors the field behind his home. We were informed by the IDNR that it would not be a black panther but biologists say a black jaguar and they do not belong here and if we feel threatened we could shoot it. (easier said than done). Recently cameras have been set up by a independent owner, hoping to catch it on wildlife cam. Unfortunely given the chance it will be shot and killed since they dont seem interested in capturing it. Although our area is building up there are thousands of acres including a proving ground with 3,000 acres in itself at the end of our road plus a church camp in which has hundreds of kids running around in the woods in the summer time, not to mention livestock. We have indeed been fortunate to witness the speed of this animal going after a herd of deer. We as neighbors have been forced to take matters into our own hands to protect our children, elderly and livestock. Hundreds of sightings have been reported in Illinois so we cant all be blind.

I have two friends who claimed to have seen a Jaguar on the banks of the Rio Grande River near Lajitas Texas. They say that while vacationing there about 2 years ago they noticed a large cat resting in the shade below a big boulder on the Mexican side of the river. They say the cat was about 50-60 yards away, just sitting there. At first they thought it was a mountain lion but after it stood up and walked away they noticed immediately the markings. I figure that with the vast wilderness of the area on both sides of the border there is definitely the possibility of jaguars living there.

last evening about 6pm my husband and I thought we saw a cat walking accross the road and then through a field across from our house. A very large black cat. As it got closer we realized it wasn't a domestic cat at all. Pure black and about the size of small mountain lion with a long , very long, tail. It strutted accross the field and disappeared into the brush. We got our binoculars and drove the 50 yards or so to the last spot we saw it, but it was gone. we are right along the colorado river at Bullhead City AZ

We were at the Murray Springs National Park in southwest Arizona in December 2010. While out walking on the interpretive trail, I heard a low, vibrating growl several times. My husband could not hear it, but it was clear as day to me. I looked up various growls when we got back, and I believe it was a jaguar. It was not a dog, or a puma, which has a much higher pitched growl. I was happy to get away from it, and it did not follow us, or did not growl again, in any event. We did not see it. I was not looking to become prey that day, but I think the growling was a warning - perhaps it had a kill and was warning us away.

In January of 2010, I made a trip with 2 friends to Falcon Lake in South Texas. While fishing from our boat on the Mexican side of the lake we noticed an animal at about 100 yards walking along the shore. We didnt pay much attention to it since we believed it was a dog or coyote. After about 10 minutes we ended drifting towards that general direction but had already forgotten about the animal only to be surprised from a loud roar. We all got extremely scared since the roar seemed to be right in front of us. The brush was really thick so we couldnt really see anything. We backed our boat about 30 feet from shore for safety and started to look for the animal. We eventually noticed a big cat sitting low under a tree. It looked huge, definitely too big to be a bobcat. We couldnt really see its markings since it looked almost black in the shade. We concluded that it had to be either a Mountain Lion or Jaguar. I do know that mountain lions cant roar yet we were shocked to believed it could have been a Jaguar. We watched it for about 10 minutes in amazement until we drifted away. My friend took some pictures of it. Not very clear but you can definitely see that its a big cat. What was shocking was the roar, it was really loud. We werent more than 30-40 feet from the animal when we heard it. While talking to people from the area we were told that there are definitely Jaguars in the area especially on the Mexican side where there seems to be less hunters to kill them. To this day I am amazed to have experienced that. Its just a weird feeling to know that it was there right in front of us. If it hadnt made any noise we would have never noticed it.

In mid june 1980 at the bluff springs,florida church camp grounds(owned by The Community Of Christ Church)my cousin Clay Gilmore and another camper Terry Overstreet saw one.While returning to our rooms from the dinning hall and approaching a short foot bridge Terry said "LOOK AT THAT" whispering of course.To my shock and amasement a black cat was sitting in the middle of the bridge under the light that lit the bridge at night.The time was around 9:00 p.m. and we were able to approach it for another four steps already 100 from it.We were walking in the dark to the bridge that was lit up and upon hearing us it jumped from the bridge toward the dirrection it had been looking.We paused to look at it long enough to identify it as a jaguar because of it's spots,thick tail,and short pointy ears.I thought it escaped from a collector,but maybe not.

My friends and I were hiking in Aravaipa Canyon in Arizona this past Saturday. We saw the hindquarters of a very large black animal with a very long, thick tail. It was black. We have only been able to come up with a black jaguar as an explanation and the closest approximation of what the animal was.

In 1998 I was camping in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada, in the Basin Lake area. As I was driving along a dirt road in the bush, about 9 am, I saw a large, dark animal sitting alongside the road--I assumed it was a black bear, but as I came within about 50 yards, it ran up a slope, away from the road, and as it disappeared into the bush, I saw it had a very long tail, and its body was slender. That is, not a black bear; and not a black dog of some kind--it didn't run like a dog. I didn't see its head clearly, but, on the whole, it looked like a BIG black cat.
Not a house cat (they don't grow to six feet long), not a black labrador retriever, but a cat. I know what I saw, though most won't believe it. Bizarre!

I’m like a lot of people on here. I didn’t know they didn’t exist until I got to researching on the computer. I’ve always heard of panthers. My great grandmother was picking blackberries when she was a young girl and one chases or more of followed her home. Her father got the coon dogs and headed out after it, but the dogs would not pick up the chase.
If the government admitted that there are Jaguars in this part of the country. The hug a tree people would try to set aside land and stir up a lot of trouble. It’s easier on the government to just deny it. Some post about getting a picture. They would just say it was a pet that someone turned loose. They are here, just very few.

I live in lower Sabine County, located on the Texas-Louisiana border, and fronting Toledo Bend Reservoir. We have had several confirmed (no photographic, however) sighting of both a mountain lion and a black mountain lion (presumed to be a Jaguar). My spouse has seen both on separate occasions, crossing Highway 87 near the Fairmount community, as recently as 48 hours ago(the Jaguar sighting). My neighbor saw the mountain lion about 100 yards from our house about 2 months ago. I experienced one of them "calling" about midnight six weeks ago. It repeated the call about every 10-15 seconds over a period of about 15 minutes. I have been raised in the country, and I have never heard this "call" in my 57 years. It was no Bobcat.

How many people have to report seeing black panthers or black jaguars before scientists will admit they might possibly be living in the United States? It seems there are dozens of sightings particularly in the South and Midwest.

How easy is it to photograph species of panther (or jaguar) in their known ranges in Asia, Africa, South America? Rather difficult, eh? Population of jaguars in the Americas is unknown, yes? If we don't know how many there ARE, how can we presume to know where they are NOT?

IN December 2008, Prescott VAlley, Arizona at Fain Park several people and myself saw a large black cat a little bigger than most mountain lions of the area. This black cat one could see spots deeper in the coat when a spot light was on it. The eyes glowed a bright yellow in the light. This black cat would eat dog food at the camp trailer at fain park where this couple caring for the Christmas light diplay stayed. I saw the cat three times at Fain Park while patrolling at night as a POlice Officer. For the next two years reports of a large black cat in the Dewey/Humboldt area have been reported, but I have not seen it as of yet. I live in Humboldt and have heard a large cat growl and saw very large tracks on my two acres. I have also seen black panthers in the Arivipa Canyon back in the 1960's. I believe they are still there today, back in those very deep canyons where one can only go on foot.

on 09/12/09 i had a close encounter with a very large black wildcat five miles south of cache oklahoma .it walked slowly out of the tall grass 20 feet in front of my headlights . after studing a bit on wildcats i have no dout it was a panther, and i was likely sized up to be his next meal . i gave up looking for a lost cell phone when i saw his large eyes staring about 25 feet away and returned to the truck...i told the land owner ...which replyed yes a panther has been seen out there.

We are in northwest Tucson, and today, my dad was walking in the eucalyptus trees in our yard with my 3 year old daughter, and he swore he saw a huge black wild cat with yellow/green eyes beside our house. About 3 feet from front paws to top of head, long black tail and long legs. He said it stopped, looked right at him and then leaped over a huge pile of brush and chicken wire fence into the neighbors yard. He said it scared him to death, especially since he was with my little girl since she could be easy prey. We joked and said he was crazy but he was not laughing. He insists he knows what he saw and it was not a large housecat, or bobcat. I googled "black jaguar" and he swears the picture matched exactly what he saw. Sounds impossible to me, but still scares me at the same time knowing my little girl plays outside a lot.

Back in 1989, when I was 15 years old my family and I made a fishing trip to Falcon Lake in South Texas. As we left our campsite to go to the nearby town for supplies we encountered a large cat about 30 yards in front of us. My father stopped the car as we watched it cross the dirt road. We couldnt believe it because it was spotted like a jaguar but we believed that it was almost impossible to have actually seen one since they were known to be long gone from texas. As we drove past the place where it had cross we rolled up our windows thinking it could come out of the brush and try to attack us but of course it had disappeared. When we arrived to the local supermarket my father told the store manager what we had seen and they said that they were somewhat common in the area and had been sighted for years. That experience is something that I would never forget and to say the least, we spent the rest of our trip sleeping in the car instead of the tent. As an adult I have returned to the lake with my own kids and ask the locals about any big cats in the area and they all mentioned that jaguars havent been seen for over 15 years but do get a lot of mountain lion sightings. Well, I thought I share my big cat story with you all.

To Carolyn,

We live in Tucson near 1st and Orange Grove. In July 2007 I saw a black jaguar from my rooftop slowly cross the street to east of our house. It was a completely unobstructed view and I thought it was a big shaggy dog when I first saw it and then realized it was a large short hair cat with very broad shoulders. Very glad I was on the rooftop when it walked by. I didn't realize it was a jaguar until 2 months later when I did a web search to show a friend from out of town what kind of animals we had in the area and dscovered that the only big black cats are either leopards (wrong continent) or jaguars.

A year later in a random conversation, I discovered that a friend and his wife who live about a mile to the northeast of us near Orange Grove Middle School had also seen a black jaguar walking in the wash right behind his house a few years before.

So he or she is out there

My family has owned a 600 ac farm in St. James, Mo for over 30 years used for hunting. I enjoy watching game through binnoculars from deer stands all over our farm. In June 2009 I noticed large black cats on the farm. After much research, I now know they are Jaguars, no doubt about it. They are making a come back in the U. S. I was blessed to watch them from the top of our abandoned barn for hours each day. I was surprised to see that there were black kittens, not sure how many but at least 4. They moved on after about 5 weeks. I am hoping they will return in June again this year.

For all those that feel it's not possible., I say nature finds a way! The garbage i hear like, they won't go that far north or its to cold, will likely be proven wrong. As wild pigs over-populate and deer number increase, these prey make it ever more likely that preditors will follow.

I am from Chicago. I lived in Northern Alabama for about 5 years in Marion County in between 2 relatively small towns Haleyville and Bear Creek. I used to go to work before sunrise every morning. Our neighbor had a big black dog named Rocky (a rotweiler). I was on my way to work one morning (appx. 3:30 a.m.) and I noticed before I started going around a curve on my dead end road, that there was a large black animal standing in the curve. I had always heard Black Panther stories, but considered them a tall southern tale because I was born and raised in Chicago, so I thought the animal was nothing more than my neighbor's dog Rocky. It turns out when I approached the animal in the Checvy Silverado that morning it was not at all a dog. I stopped to take a closer look. It was a black Panther. It crossed the country road right in front of the truck I was driving. It was mainly black with brownish - reddish rosettes covering it's body throughout. Its head stood taller than the truck hood and it's body appeared to be at least 6 ft in lgth. The eyes were green from a distance but once closer I noted that they were yellow. It was not intimidated by the truck or the noice of the glass packs the truck had on it at all. To all the skeptics out there, I understand why you don't want to believe it as science can not prove it, but ignorance is blessed in this country and I think we all need to wake up and realize that. This experience frightened me so bad that throughout the years I remained living at that place, I refused to go outside after dark and to this day when I visit you will not catch me outdoors after sunset. As for pictorial evidence, who is going to reach for a camera when a so called South American wild cat is in sight with the exception that you already have one in hand or are in reaching distance of one if you're not in a state of shock. Science is going to continue to deny this until somebody is seriously hurt or KILLED!!! I find that frightening.

There is and always will be controversy over any eyewitness to an event without a photo. This is of course unfortunate as many eyewitnesses are relating factualobservations.With the advent of trail cams I would think that these will eventually disclose any rare cats occupying an area.

We live on a small ranch outside of Reedley, California. There are two mountains in our area, one is going to be mined by CMEX. There is a female, part mountain lion and part jaguar that lives in this area. In 2004, she had two cubs. The male is the same color as a mountain lion but the female is much more of a cream or grayish creamy color. I didn't get close enough to see spots, but her mother deffinately has them. In early September, my husband and I were drinking coffee at about 6 a.m. on the front porch when we saw he come down into the pasture. She knew we were there but went on her way slowly. I think she now has two cubs. I was walking along the dirt road accross the street recently and saw her tracks where she had turned in a quarter circle and sat down. There were two sets of small tracks that swirled around her. The females brother is very large, about 150+/-. He lives not far away either. I guess he has a girlfriend from the wondervally area. The neighbors told be they've been a handful. Are cats like their mother protected? If the mother has rosettes even though she's part mountain lion, shouldn't she be protected? I am studying for a bachelors in science, wildlife biology. Taking a walk in our pasture with this kind of wildlife around is awsome. I know that mountain lions have a home range and a wider span of range in circumpherance, but all of these cats have a home range of about five miles in proximaty of each other. I'm not sure how to interpret this.

Some info for "wild cat lovers"--maybe mere trivia to some--
During the early 1970's, maybe late 60's, the Florida Wildlife magazine,( publ. by fla wildlife service) featured a fill length article on the jauguarundi (kinda miniature jaguar) sightings--then, prevalent all over florida). More recently so many exotic species have been 'liberated" or let out of cages to become pests all over florida!

In addition, The Forteans, a magazine for the strange and 'unexpected' facts main-line scientists tend to ignore, featured many panther sights, jaguar and black cat sightings thru the yrs...twenty or thrirty years now i guess.

As a wildlife biologist and felidae specialist i can assure you all that there are no jaguars in the north. They do not have the ability to survive the cold. The furthest north they possibly are are Texas and Arizona. No further north than that. Peroid. There are none in any northern states or in Canada. We'd like to all believe that was true but it simply isn't.

Wed. afternoon ( 11/18/09) as I was walking by WASH#9 in Green Valley, Az. I observed a big black wildcat( height appeared to be that of a large dog...but this was no dog!) walking across the sandy ,dryed out river, about 75 yards away. Being from out of town, I really studied it , trying to figure out what I was looking at. It slinked into some trees and didn't come out....so I walked away. I researched it online and am pretty sure that what I saw was a black jaguar. We went back the next day and took pictures of footprints in the sand..which were huge and appeared anatomically correct. I did call the Arizona wildlife fish and game people to report it. But, I'm really curious to know if anyone else happaned to see it too! Now that I know how rare they are ( but not unheard of being 40 mls. from the Mexican border) , I'm totally amazed and blessed to have seen it! If only I'd had a camera!

The first week of Nov 2009, I was up late one night when motion sensors turned on the lights outside my window. The house is near the Magee Rd & 1st Avenue trail-head in the Santa Catalina foothills, Tucson AZ. I was able to get a very good look at a large cat (smaller than Jaguar) but appeared to move and look like Jaguar. It had unusually long thick tail and dark spots on a light brownish-gray fur. Never stretched the legs to full while easily climbing the wall and disappearing on the cliff behind in dark looking back towards me. I had not seen anything like this before although the house is frequented by Havelinas and Bobcats even during the day hours. I must mention though that there is a large presence of big rats in the area maybe the food source and the house water fall outside my window.

Indeed as child growing towards up my father and I did see great many Jaguar while hunting walrus in native Northeast Kallalit Nunaat. one indeed was seen eating my family repeatedly but no picture was taken of it by the me. It is supposed that they HAVE indeed traveled far to north, and are speckled still unlike mighty white bear, near pole, in north.

Im a hunter and avid outdoorsman in NC and in TN. I have seen some strange animals near the cape fear river in NC but the other day when i was walking in the woods i saw a very large dark cat with spots on it. since i have seen many mountain lions before i knew it was not one. when i saw it i was so scared i jumped in and swam across rockfish creek. this cat was about waist high and was probably 150 pounds. i called the local game warden and he told me it was probably a black bear. i told him this was no bear i was ten yards away from it and i have hunted a few bears before. he told me the only cat that big and that color is a jaguar but they dont live in the U.S. i will be setting camera traps and will try to get evidence.

Study after study has shown that people are not very observant, and that when they do notice things they don't remember them correctly - in fact, they often exaggerate the size of things, especially animals. The funny thing about all these puma sightings is that the puma (AKA cougar, mountain lion, Florida panther, etc.) is never black. Leopards (who only live in the Old World) and jaguars (who during the ice age lived as far north as Nebraska and Pennsylvania, but in the U. S. today are restricted to areas close to the Mexican border) are only rarely black. So why is everybody seeing black panthers? Pumas are recolonizing their former range, but it will be a long time before we have breeding populations even in areas that would be fine puma habitat. And they didn't just stick around there after being hunting out a hundred years ago, because their prey was gone too. It is possible that people are seeing black jaguars or leopards that were raised as pets and then released, but these generally have no skills to survive, and get shot by police after they are spotted lounging at a bus stop or digging out of trashcans. People will scream "I know what I saw!" but they don't. Perhaps a few "black panther" sightings in the southwestern U. S. are legitimate, but most people simply saw a black lab, a dark bobcat, or a house cat.

Between Hobbs and Artesia New Mexico Hwy 529. Near dark. The year was 1976 and as my Father, uncle and I drove towards Hobbs I saw a large black cat cross the road. The tail was HUGE and very thick. My father (passenger) only say the tail and my uncle did not see it. I did not see its face but distinctly remember the back color. The area is mostly sand dunes and open rolling hills. I thought it was very strange to see any animal in this area but I know what I saw.

Most of the accounts above are Cougars (Felis Concolor) or maybe a Jaguarundi (Herpailurus yaguarondi) for any southern sitings. Also, I can promise you that eye shine is totally unreliable. Cats (usually) have green that may switch to orange but can have green, orange, or red. Fox can have all those colors as well. Rats will show red or orange and even spiders will show enough glow to make you look twice. I.E.> eye shine won't determine kingdom, let alone species... If anyone wants to be taken seriously please, PLEASE get a photo. Your phone has a camera. I don't want to hear "I missed the shot" from a guy who catches every boob flash at Mardi Gras, I just want to see a frickin American Jaguar. Go out there and prove yourselves - Show Me A Jaguar!

For anyone curious about this, I live near Tucson where we have captured some of the photos of the Jaguars. I was watching Monster Quest on History Channel last night and it was about the large black cats being sited near OK and all across the midwest along with the Arizona sightings. Im sure you could find the episode on History channel's site or maybe Monster Quest. Even just Google it and you will pull up a lot of information on the subject. Thought maybe it would help someone!

Huntland, Tennessee in Franklin County. I’m 58 years old and when I was a boy approximately 12 years old an old lady that I delivered news papers to told me she saw our dog and several other neighborhood dogs chasing a black panther. It jumped the fence behind her house and escaped. The year was approximately 1962. In approximately 1963 my father was logging in the neighboring Jackson County Alabama. They were repairing the track on the bulldozer and it was getting dark. My father heard what he called a panther scream in the woods about 200 yards above them. He said they packed up their tools and went home. He had heard bobcats before, but he said that the sound of the scream was no bobcat. I worked with a guy that at the time of the sighting only lived 3 miles out of Huntland. On his way home one night a black panther ran across the road in front of him just a short way from his home. In 1998 my son and son in law and I were working with our hunting club in Franklin County taking fertilizer to the game plots. My son in law was in front of me on his four wheeler. He all of a sudden came to a halt. I had to dodge to miss him because of the bad brakes on my four wheeler. He said “did you see that”. He saw a black panther run across the jeep road about 20 yards in front of him. I didn’t see it, but have no doubt he did. I've heard of other reports of people seeing black panthers in this area and other areas of Tennessee. I believe they have been here all along, but in real low numbers.

I was speaking to a security guard at the Big Horn Country Club the other day. Big Horn is in Palm Desert, California. The woman said that a resident had called them at about 10 pm the previous evening. The resident was walking his dog and said he saw a large black cat, the size of a mountain lion. The security guard arrived and saw the cat too. They described it as a black panther. It sounds impossible since there have only been two jaguar sitings in the last decade in the United States, and they had mottled spots as most jaguars do.

In 1994, I was driving on highway 77 just outside Winkleman, Arizona I approched something big in the middle of the road. As I got closer I realized it was a dead animal. I pulled over and walked up to it, it was a cat, A very large black cat with brownish spots all over. At leased a dozen cars stopped after me so I got in my truck, and drove 2 miles to my friends house. They have to see this. We go back, and its gone. Somebody took it, and all that was left was a little spot of blood. Its still hard to get people to believe my story. But its TRUE......

My sons were in a creek in North Dallas this past June and two (age 22 and 24) of them saw a jaguar. City boys yes but these guys know their animals. It was about 30 feet across the creek and about 20 feet upstream, maybe 3:00 in the afternoon. They said it turned and saw them, and then eased on up into the brush. They were surprised by it's lack of panic. They weren't about to follow. This sounds strange but they were positive it was a jaguar.

My brother-in-law (who is sane, sober, and wide-awake)clearly saw a cougar-sized, long-tailed cat cross the road in front of him, in his headlights, a mile from our home. We are in west TN, four miles from the river, about 20 miles north of Memphis. This cat, also, was black. We may have a jaguar, or are there dark-coated cougars?

This past Saturday 06/21/08, 5 people saw a large black cat in the woods behind my lake house. My sister tried to take a picture of it, but only the eyes flashed from the camera. She sent the picture to a cougar web-site and they said that cougars would flash green eyes and since these were yellow it had to be a Jaguar. I live at Lake Wauwanoka, Hillsboro, MO. Please respond. Could it be someone's pet?? It was the size of a large dog. Sincerely, Kathy

(2007) My wife and I seen a large cat cross the road on 48 near Durant OK. A large cat had to be scared out of a garage in Tishimago. Both were black!! Do cougars came black?