What animal is this?

[alexpops]

Healthy Bobcat or a sickly (& really lost) Florida Panther

 

[Thomas]

Here in Vermont, The fish and game department flat out states there are NO catamounts in our state. And ...

If you see one, you are not permitted to shoot it!

;-)

We Do have bob cats. See then every year.

Also in our state NH F&G.
Nothern loggers say they seen cats crossing NH Candain border time to time...guess the cats can't read there not suppose to be here.

 

[ponytug]

Classic pose for a bobcat. The tail length here is a little variable.

All the best,

Peter

 

[scootr]

I think it's a Lynx

Bobcats and lynx are both wild cats in the Lynx genus that have ear tufts and facial ruffs, but they have several differences:

• Size
  Bobcats are the smallest of the lynx species, ranging from 26–41 inches long, while lynx can be much larger. For example, the Eurasian lynx can be 32–51 inches long and weigh 40–66 pounds.

 

[ponytug]

I think it's a Lynx

Bobcats and lynx are both wild cats in the Lynx genus that have ear tufts and facial ruffs, but they have several differences:

• Size
  Bobcats are the smallest of the lynx species, ranging from 26–41 inches long, while lynx can be much larger. For example, the Eurasian lynx can be 32–51 inches long and weigh 40–66 pounds.

Nice thought, but unless @JPRambo took the photo a long way from home, it would be a bit doubtful based on known ranges of Lynxes and Bobcats;

All the best,

Peter

 

[scootr]

I captured a Lynx video left of the first B in bobcat on that map, if it means anything

 

[Jstpssng]

Also in our state NH F&G.
Nothern loggers say they seen cats crossing NH Candain border time to time...guess the cats can't read there not suppose to be here.

We may have a transient pass through occasionally but I doubt we have a resident population. I've been all over this state and 3 other border states for 45 years in all sorts of weather, and have never seen sign or talked to anybody else who has.
I've heard all sorts of reports but they are like Yetis; leave no tracks or spoor, and somehow have the ability to blur cameras so that nobody can get a decent picture.
There have been a couple found over the years which have evidence of previously being domesticated.

My grandfather was deer hunting back in 1958 and saw what may have been the last confirmed sighting. Things were different back then and he shot at it but missed. The game Warden went after it with dogs but they never caught up to it.
You won't read about that in any official reports but there is an article about it buried somewhere in the archives of the Lewiston Sun/Journal.

 

[lman]

Here's one I got a few years ago.

 

[Jstpssng]

Here's one I got a few years ago.
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THAT'S a mountain lion!!!

 

[CalG]

I saw a catamount less than a mile from my place about 20 years ago.

You can tell me I was mistaken, but I know what I saw.