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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 09:11 PM
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Mountain neighbor spots black panther.
I spotted one a year ago, almost to the day. It was a sleek, black cat at about 100 pounds (estimate). My mountain neighbor (a retired NASA rocket scientist) was hiking Saturday and saw the big black cat at a nearby waterfall. He estimated it as a 100# cat.
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 09:13 PM
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1. thanks for the pic
I was envisioning that the neighbor walked into a timewarp and wound up in an Oakland apartment in the late sixties...
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 09:14 PM
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2. hehehehe
funny! :P
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 09:19 PM
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4. That's why I dug up the cat picture.
Last year, after I sighted the black panther and posted here about it, the thread bogged down with pictures of the political "Black Panthers."
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 09:25 PM
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8. lol
do I fit in here, or what.... glad to carry on that tradition ;-)
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 09:32 PM
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12. "Those" Panthers


Original six Black Panthers (November, 1966) Top left to right: Elbert "Big Man" Howard; Huey P. Newton (Defense Minister), Sherman Forte, Bobby Seale (Chairman). Bottom: Reggie Forte and Little Bobby Hutton (Treasurer).
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 10:01 PM
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16. which black panther later (much later) ran for office as a repub
in California? Odd episode, that was...
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Thurston Howell IV Donating Member (436 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 09:17 PM
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3. My favorite animal
Nice pic. Thanks!
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 09:24 PM
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7. It is here ...
And it is dear. I'm looking into a preservation foundation to protect this cat from GWB. I am in a national forest that GWB wants to open to clear-cut logging. Just like the robber barons did here in the early 1900's. In fact, it was the bounty hunters hired by the robber Barron's that decimated the panther population in these beautiful mountains.
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Thurston Howell IV Donating Member (436 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 09:44 PM
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13. Yeah, right wing Christians suck
The whole rape and pillage the earth syndrome, because God gave us dominion over the earth. It's sad.
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 09:56 PM
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14. Yes
I agree. Well said.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 09:21 PM
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5. And where in TX might you live?
:scared:
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 09:27 PM
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9. Sorry, my DU name misleads ..
I am an ex-Tex now. I am at home in heaven, a post-and-beam log house in the mountains of western NC.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 09:58 PM
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15. Sounds like heaven!
My brother lives in Raleigh and goes camping up thataway.
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DrWeird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 09:21 PM
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6. Saw a cougar once.
Out for a drive in the beautiful hills surrounding Roseberg, Oregon. It was coming out of the grass while I was coming around a curve. It leaped back in as soon as it saw me and vanished. I consider myself pretty lucky. Very few people get to see these animals without going to a zoo.
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suziedemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 09:30 PM
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10. My Brother saw one in Indiana
In the woods off a bike trail near West Lafayette - about 30-40 pounds.

My First Post Here!!!!
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 09:32 PM
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11. welcome to DU!
:hi:
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