Chatting with a coworker who lives west of Houston who knows folk in Bellville. Says he worked at a Christmas tree farm years back.
Christmas tree farm supposedly backs up to small tributary of the Brazos. Coworker says he and a couple of guys would sometimes take morning break down by the creek. He swore up and down that he and a couple of the other guys saw a black panther one morning. He went on to say they found a mangled bobcat (a large tom) on another morning and when they took it up to the office, they heard a "big cat scream" seconds after they set it on the ground to show it to the owner.
Apparently someone found a cave upstream along the creek where the panther lived and there is hearsay that the panther was living off possums and local pets. The story gets better when someone working at the Christmas tree farm helped a local rancher kill it since it had attacked his livestock. Unfortunately, as told by my coworker, no photos were taken during the four or five sightings mentioned nor of the panther after it was killed.
Why this supposed kill wasn't brought up to the game warden or TPWD beats the hell out of me since the last confirmed sighting in Texas was decades ago.
Now, I haven't heard much about bobcats east of San Antonio and Cat Springs is named for puma(s) shot there by settlers but this whole story seems like horse puckey.
Anyone else had their leg pulled about black panther sightings in Bellville?
Christmas tree farm supposedly backs up to small tributary of the Brazos. Coworker says he and a couple of guys would sometimes take morning break down by the creek. He swore up and down that he and a couple of the other guys saw a black panther one morning. He went on to say they found a mangled bobcat (a large tom) on another morning and when they took it up to the office, they heard a "big cat scream" seconds after they set it on the ground to show it to the owner.
Apparently someone found a cave upstream along the creek where the panther lived and there is hearsay that the panther was living off possums and local pets. The story gets better when someone working at the Christmas tree farm helped a local rancher kill it since it had attacked his livestock. Unfortunately, as told by my coworker, no photos were taken during the four or five sightings mentioned nor of the panther after it was killed.
Why this supposed kill wasn't brought up to the game warden or TPWD beats the hell out of me since the last confirmed sighting in Texas was decades ago.
Now, I haven't heard much about bobcats east of San Antonio and Cat Springs is named for puma(s) shot there by settlers but this whole story seems like horse puckey.
Anyone else had their leg pulled about black panther sightings in Bellville?
