Wampus Cat (edited)

Tennessee Deer Sporting & Deer Hunting Community Forum

Help Support TNDeer | Tennessee Deer:

Knothead

Knothead

Well-Known Member
Joined
Aug 11, 2003
Messages
8,006
City & State/Province
Middle TN
Decent sized kitty.
(replaced image with High Res image)
1626229127714.jpg
 
Last edited:
Big kitty. You go walking in real early in the dark with nothing but a bow and arrow and hear that thing, it would make the hair on your neck stand up.
 
cbhunter said:
Was totally kidding ;)
Click to expand...
Gotcha! I'm so used to dealing with suburbanites who keep telling me they saw a mountain lion in their yard.

I've even got one neighbor, in Bellevue (west Nashville), telling everyone he saw a bear in his yard. His explanation was, "At first, I thought it was a fox. But then I realized it was a little bigger, so it must be a bear!" Ummm, bit of a size difference between a fox and a bear!
 
BSK said:
Gotcha! I'm so used to dealing with suburbanites who keep telling me they saw a mountain lion in their yard.

I've even got one neighbor, in Bellevue (west Nashville), telling everyone he saw a bear in his yard. His explanation was, "At first, I thought it was a fox. But then I realized it was a little bigger, so it must be a bear!" Ummm, bit of a size difference between a fox and a bear!
Click to expand...
Oh tell me about it. Someone posts a photo on "Nextdoor" of a bobcat with a rabbit in its mouth. Obviously a bobcat. Can even see the Bob tail. The urban prisoners around me freak out, "it's a cougar, TWRA has to do something." You point out that it's a bobcat and they bicker and argue. And then they start crying about the "poor bunny."

I'm tempted to download this pic, post it, and say it's a Knothead Wampuss Cat. See what they say.
 
BSK said:
I swear, as TheOnlyBandThatMatters pointed out, people on Nextdoor will believe anything.

I've just about lost all respect for my Fellow Man's cognitive abilities after reading their posts.
Click to expand...
I still keep up with my old neighborhood in Nashville just for the laughs. These people would not last long in a real emergency. They had a groundhog on there that was a beaver in their minds.
 
Planking said:
I still keep up with my old neighborhood in Nashville just for the laughs. These people would not last long in a real emergency. They had a groundhog on there that was a beaver in their minds.
Click to expand...
Every snake is a cottonmouth or rattlesnake. Every spider is a brown recluse. Every house cat or bobcat is a mountain lion. People see what they want to see, not what is really there.
 
I have killed bobcats and coyotes all around where this farm is. That is a big tom bobcat. They always look taller and longer i ln the summer because they aint furred out.
 
TheOnlyBandThatMatters said:
Oh tell me about it. Someone posts a photo on "Nextdoor" of a bobcat with a rabbit in its mouth. Obviously a bobcat. Can even see the Bob tail. The urban prisoners around me freak out, "it's a cougar, TWRA has to do something." You point out that it's a bobcat and they bicker and argue. And then they start crying about the "poor bunny."

I'm tempted to download this pic, post it, and say it's a Knothead Wampuss Cat. See what they say.
Click to expand...
I get the same next door as you I guess. I saw the one last week about the cougar killing the fox???? Back in the winter a lady posted about a bobcat near a school and she contacted the school to go on lockdown and telling parents to watch out for there children. Another lady wanted the " community" to buy cat food, tuna, and sardines for the neighborhood fox so the fox didn't have to kill mice, rabbits, squirrels etc or as she said " her wild fur babies " . Folks can really advertise their stupidity on social media.🙄
 
TNTreeman said:
I get the same next door as you I guess. I saw the one last week about the cougar killing the fox???? Back in the winter a lady posted about a bobcat near a school and she contacted the school to go on lockdown and telling parents to watch out for there children. Another lady wanted the " community" to buy cat food, tuna, and sardines for the neighborhood fox so the fox didn't have to kill mice, rabbits, squirrels etc or as she said " her wild fur babies " . Folks can really advertise their stupidity on social media.🙄
Click to expand...
I like the people who get angry about coyotes threatening their "fur babies" and want TWRA to trap them (humanely of course) and relocate them "out in the country."

just this morning someone posted "I just found a baby skunk that looks injured. What should I do." So tempted to reply "take it home and make it your little fur baby."
 
TNTreeman said:
I get the same next door as you I guess. I saw the one last week about the cougar killing the fox???? Back in the winter a lady posted about a bobcat near a school and she contacted the school to go on lockdown and telling parents to watch out for there children. Another lady wanted the " community" to buy cat food, tuna, and sardines for the neighborhood fox so the fox didn't have to kill mice, rabbits, squirrels etc or as she said " her wild fur babies " . Folks can really advertise their stupidity on social media.🙄
Click to expand...
Lol. Sociaism now applies to inner city animals. I dont see how could exist one day in a urban or suburban community. Id be on a water tower making my land stand
 
No pic to share, but I did see something a few years ago that I can't explain. It was middle of nowhere on Kimsey mountain (SE TN) was driving back in the mountains and saw what I first thought was a big bobcat, then I saw a long tail. It was a long distance so I did not see it close enough for positive ID. Not sure to this day what that critter was.
 
Cherokee said:
No pic to share, but I did see something a few years ago that I can't explain. It was middle of nowhere on Kimsey mountain (SE TN) was driving back in the mountains and saw what I first thought was a big bobcat, then I saw a long tail. It was a long distance so I did not see it close enough for positive ID. Not sure to this day what that critter was.
Click to expand...
While I made a joke about this one being a mountain lion, I have no doubt there have been some to pass through the state and even been confirmed by TWRA. But it's definitely rare
 
The ones confirmed by the TWRA in Obion County and Humphreys County left the state and haven't been back since I believe 2016 or 17.
 
You're correct BSK about EVERY snake being a copperhead or water moccasin. A lady on next door sent out a pic of a dead snake ( she thought copperhead) that bit her dad, she was asking the " community" what to do . She ended up taking him to the ER, but first needed input from others on next door . Big argument the other day was about a " badger" , which of course was a ground hawg then an argument started over weather it was a ground hawg or woodchuck . We for sure have the market cornered on stupid around here, no where else even comes close.
 

Latest posts

Back
Top