It must have been heavy cause I could feel it. Finally, saw a light beige creature stand up in the tall grass and sprinted so fast across my yard it was hard to see it clearly. Heard dogs persistently barking out back of my house checked it out multiple times. It went towards a group of trees and I never saw it come back out.ĭoing work about a month or so ago at st. It had a long tail that was really dark and it was about the size of our large dog. Saw a large cat in our back yard about 150 yards from the house at about 6:30 am. It was definitely what I have always id’d as a panther. I watched it until it disappeared into the trees and the hill in the driveway.

I reached for the binoculars, as it was walking away from me, and the tail was a cougar’s tail, along with the large paws and smaller ears. I looked and at first I thought it might be a large house cat or the red fox we see frequently, but I when I saw the side view, I immediately knew it was a young cougar, maybe the size of a cattle dog. I was in the kitchen, shortly before 8am, Labor Day 2023, and movement caught my eye, outside on the driveway. When i saw this article i knew what i had seen!! I ask around if there was big cats in this area but no one knew. I was so surprised i kept looking cause i knew it was not a dog by the way it walked but too big to be a cat. I was on a ladder behind my house and happened to turn snd looked down the road beside my house and saw a large animal walk across the road from one field to the next. On front porch at 108 Cambridge Court apartment 22 Dover Tennessee The long tail was especially noteworthy for me. I waved my arms and he strolled away toward a neighbors home. The deer were “blowing” at him to try to get him to leave. Saw a very large cat-like animal hunting on the grassy edge of a lake in my backyard. If you believe you have seen a mountain lion, please report your sighting. Every potential sighting is important to the growing data pool of the occurrence of these creatures. The data still indicate there are no current breeding populations of these creatures within the state of Tennessee. Wildlife biologists believe these to be animals seeking to immigrate from the Midwest. However, the cougar, also known as puma, painter, mountain lion and panther, has been documented by trail camera and DNA analysis to, at least in passing, have recently been present in TN. Persistent reports of sightings over the years on this website have chronicled this belief. Though many residents believe these great cats have maintained small breeding populations across the state, data has consistently suggested that cougar was extirpated in Tennessee during the early 1900's. The aspect of the return of the onetime apex predator to Tennessee strikes fear in some and exultation in others.

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Mice, voles, squirrels, shrews, grouse, ptarmigan and Snowshoe Hare. You can sometimes see kits playing close to a den with the parents close by. Foxes pair up during mating season and are inseparable until autumn when the pups are weaned and the family unit splits up for winter. Red Foxes are solitary, territorial animals that are very adaptable to new environments.

Habitat: Boreal forest, near human settlements.

Silver Fox: black with white tipped guard hairs, giving it a silver sheen.

Cross Fox: same as a Red Fox with a dark band of guard hairs which form a cross over the shoulders and back.

Black stockings and cheek patches, and white throat and chest parts contrast vividly with the red coat.

Slender, tapering muzzle, very pointed ears, and long bushy tail.

Small, thin, canid shaped with an orange-red coat.

The best time for viewing foxes is in the spring, when south facing slopes of hill and knolls are bare of snow and foxes are concentrated near their dens.

In winter, foxes often travel on windswept mountains to hunt ptarmigan and other small mammals.

Roadside clearings offer good hunting for small mammals. Highway travellers have a good chance at spotting a Red Fox crossing the road or skirting a nearby clearing.Silver Fox and Cross Fox (colour variations) Viewing opportunities

Cougar and fox sounds