Letters Continued from Page 10 beaver, or anyone’s mother-in-law. It was a solid black cat. It was not as big as a Florida panther-about three-quarters as big, but it had a long tail and the head was definitely feline. I looked up the suggested animals Mr. Felsher suggested and none of them were close to what I saw. What was it? Just a great big cat. What kind? I don’t know, but it’s not the first one I’ve seen. I would love to know what kind it really is. So let the perennial “sure you have’s” begin....I know what I saw.
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I can tell you unequivocally and without reservation or malice toward none, I have seen a big cat in Alabama. I have seen the track of a big cat in Alabama and I have heard the scream of a big cat in Alabama. And being of sound mind, body, good eyesight and not tipper of the bottle or can, I can attest to the fact there has been at least one “big cat “ in Alabama. The sighting was about ten years ago while hunting with a friend on his land in southern Autauga County, near the community of Jones and within a mile of Walker Lake. First, the year before we noticed the deer population was not what it had been. The track spotted was on a sandy spot on the woods road. The sighting of the big cat was while my friend was on the tractor bushhogging the roads and green fields and I was making repairs to a camping trailer he had placed there years earlier. I heard the screams for several minutes and thought it was coming from a circular saw, as there was a house nearby, but after becoming more curious, I looked down through the woods and small brush toward the direction of the noise and saw a full-size cat looking in my direction from about one hundred yards plus or minus. I immediately came down off the ladder and at that point, the big cat turned sideways to me and I could clearly see it appeared to be full grown, was at least three feet long and had the head and tan color of a full grown mountain lion. After getting on the ground to retrieve my rifle from the truck, I have not seen him since. It was not a panther, coyote, dog, bear, deer, or other species of known animal and I was not hallucinating. We hunted the area only once or twice after that because there were too few deer spotted. James L. McLean, Titus Alabama Living
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