:usaflag: Black Panther in Texas?? (The Four Legged Kind!!)

[Cupajo]

These dogs would hunt alone if I didn't take them as I was living about a mile from forested land and there were farm fields everywhere with rice canals and fields where coon love to search for food.

There was a river not far away too, so the dogs had plenty of range to hunt in.

The male "Loud" died first and months "Jenny".

They were the only coon hounds I ever owned and I really had fun hunting them.

One of the local hunters would join me with his dogs and we would make an evening of it starting early and getting in usually around midnight.

CJ

 

[TexasCharley]

The ringtail, AKA cacomistle, is actually one of the more common predators in Texas. However, it's entirely nocturnal, so it's rarely seen unless you're a coon hunter. We used to see a lot of them while coon hunting. Back in the Davy Crockett craze, I hunted coons & ringtails for the hides. The ringtail's tail is a lot bushier than a coon's. The hide-buyers loved ringtail hides. The tail could be split & rolled to make 2 or 3 tails--&, of course, it was the tail that made the coonskin cap what it was.