Weird Animal on Trail Camera
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From: Dom The Deer Slayer
08-Nov-18
So I put a trail camera up behind my house, the woods behind there is probably an acre big so obviously no one hunts back there. I caught this on the trail camera and I don't know what it is. A coyote? Fox? Domestic cat? It's not a bobcat because of it's tail. What is it?
From: 8's or Better
08-Nov-18
Coyote
From: spike78
08-Nov-18
Looks more like domestic cat
From: Bowhunt3138
08-Nov-18
Looks like a fox to me
From: Will
08-Nov-18
How high off the ground? My gut says gray fox... only because it reminds me a lot of a cat (which also may be right)... Could be a red fox or cote too. I think it's looking away from the cam, making the face look more cat like...
From: mrw
08-Nov-18
Shoot it and tell us what it is!
(just kidding, you don't have to tell us!)
From: hickstick
08-Nov-18
Yes. Yote looking away from the cam. But dont discount bobcat...the 'do' have a tail it's just not as long as most cats.
Fox ears are huge in comparison to their head.
From: Pi
08-Nov-18
Mountain Seal. No doubt.
From: Moons22
08-Nov-18
Meow. Looks like my cat, Jeff.
From: DanaC
09-Nov-18
Unless the cam is a foot off the ground I'd say coyote rather than cat.
From: Paul
09-Nov-18
House kitty
From: Come november
09-Nov-18
Pi is correct
From: jdrdeerslayer
09-Nov-18
fox ....100%
From: Deerdawg
09-Nov-18
Fox, tail is kinda fat at base for a cat. I had a big all black cat come down a stone wall way out in the woods one hunt, I had to do a wtf! I thought for a second it was a panther! Lol
From: Let's Go
09-Nov-18
Woozle? Let's Go
From: Pi
09-Nov-18
Thank you CN. Someone with some common sense. Mountain seal.
From: hunterma
18-Nov-18
Ok, checked a cam today and found this, has me baffled so I thought I would tap in to the collective brain trust.
From: hunterma
18-Nov-18
My only thoughts are a large fisher cat or a black coyote, if there is such a thing.
From: Moons22
18-Nov-18
Smokey the Bear
From: spike78
18-Nov-18
Fisher or coon
From: Bones1918
18-Nov-18
Looking like a fisher cat.
From: TT-Pi
18-Nov-18
Mountain seal. Man, you fellas are slow learners! Mountain seal.
From: Huntskifishcook
18-Nov-18
Fun random fact, seals were landlocked in Lake Champlain after the last ice age. I believe they were hunted out about 100+ years ago. So mountain seals once did exist.
From: Pi
19-Nov-18
And they still do.
