Jaguarundi?hellihooks wrote:I know... I'm having a hard time convincing myself I saw what I saw. It was a cat... and it was black. Seemed to large for a housecat... but, after thinking about it... to small to be a cougar out on it's own. Yearling cougars are like 40 to 60 lbs before they leave their mom... this cat may have went 20 lbs. And now thinking about it... there's an exotic wildlife refuge, within a mile or so of where I saw it, in the Cajon Pass.... so it could be an excapee...
I know my cats fairly well (even raised a chinese spotted leopard,from a 2 day old kitten.. ) Wasn't a Serval, I'm sure, nor ocelot or Margay... I'm gonna go with Leopardus geoffroyi ...Geoffrey's Cat... some of which, come to think of it, are melanistic... .
We had a local pet shop that had one for sale when I was a kid... I think it was about $50. Looked like an elongated dark grey cat with small ears.