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| Author: | BagBoy [ Sun Jul 11, 2010 2:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | What was that weird animal I saw last night? |
Last night around 11:30 I was walking my dog through a very wooded neighborhood (suburban central NC). Then I heard a noise back by the house I had just walked past. It sounded sort of like the bark of one of those little lap dogs with the smashed in snouts, except a lot raspier, and a whole lot louder, and longer. I couldn't see anything, so the dog and I kept walking. A minute or so later we heard that same sound, again behind us, but not back at the house where we first heard it. So, it, whatever it was, was following us. A moment later we got close to a street light and my dog figured out where this thing was, and went after it - not agressively or quickly or anything, she was just curious and probably a bit weary. So then we could see this thing. It was definitely cat-like, except its ears were bigger and also much rounder than domestic cat ears. I would say it was roughly the size of a domestic cat, except its legs were longer and overall it was lankier. When the dog was following it, it moved away, but not like it was scared or anything. It definitely saw me too, and it certainly didn't run off in fear. I followed it down a side street and it walked away from me, but it didn't run for the woods, it just kept walking down the road, so I wouldn't call this thing shy. We continued on our way and a minute or so later we could hear that growl or whatever nearby once again. After that we got to a busier road and then no more encounters. I poked around a bit online. Apparently sand cats have a similar growl, but they are too small to be what I saw, and also their ears, while bigger than domestic cats, are too pointy. Since lynx also have pointy ears, it can't be one of them. They are too brawny anyway. What I saw was much lankier than a lynx. So does anybody know what this thing is? |
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| Author: | Rud [ Sun Jul 11, 2010 3:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What was that weird animal I saw last night? |
Did it sound like this? |
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| Author: | Ryan911T [ Sun Jul 11, 2010 3:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What was that weird animal I saw last night? |
Bobcat? |
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| Author: | fan4life61 [ Sun Jul 11, 2010 3:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What was that weird animal I saw last night? |
an ocelot. |
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| Author: | BagBoy [ Sun Jul 11, 2010 3:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What was that weird animal I saw last night? |
Ocelots and bobcats are too big. They would have eaten my dog. The red fox cry isn't quite right, but what I saw was about the size of a fox with same type of body type (lanky). It may have been some sort of fox, but the ears were definitely very round, certainly rounder than the average fox ear. Keep those ideas coming. I'm very curious. I'm bringing a camera on tonight's walk. |
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| Author: | HelloMyKneeGrows [ Sun Jul 11, 2010 3:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What was that weird animal I saw last night? |
Chupacabra? lol....... |
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| Author: | fan4life61 [ Sun Jul 11, 2010 4:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What was that weird animal I saw last night? |
ocelots are pretty small, about 15 inches tall |
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| Author: | HelloMyKneeGrows [ Sun Jul 11, 2010 4:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What was that weird animal I saw last night? |
Sounds like aone of your neighbors might have a Savannah Cat and maybe he got loose.... Some Savannah Cats, because of the Serval genetics, have been known to have very round ears and are approximately the size of the animal you were describing |
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| Author: | BagBoy [ Sun Jul 11, 2010 5:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What was that weird animal I saw last night? |
HelloMyKneeGrows wrote: Sounds like aone of your neighbors might have a Savannah Cat and maybe he got loose.... Some Savannah Cats, because of the Serval genetics, have been known to have very round ears and are approximately the size of the animal you were describing I can't be 100 % sure, but I think we have a winner here. The vid below talks about how they actually like people and dogs, and that fits the behavior I saw. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqJRhX72FmI |
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| Author: | BlueandYellow [ Sun Jul 11, 2010 6:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What was that weird animal I saw last night? |
Bigfoot. |
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| Author: | HelloMyKneeGrows [ Sun Jul 11, 2010 9:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: What was that weird animal I saw last night? |
BagBoy wrote: HelloMyKneeGrows wrote: Sounds like aone of your neighbors might have a Savannah Cat and maybe he got loose.... Some Savannah Cats, because of the Serval genetics, have been known to have very round ears and are approximately the size of the animal you were describing I can't be 100 % sure, but I think we have a winner here. The vid below talks about how they actually like people and dogs, and that fits the behavior I saw. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqJRhX72FmI If you search youtube, they have a very distinct growl too.....a lot lower than a cat, almost dog like and very guttural.....Im not sure but when you described the animal originally its the first thing I thought of.......well, besides a chupacabra, lol |
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