Been here for 6 days and he is already a moderator, must be some kind of record. Oh wait...

lol friend got on my account after i fell asleep last night. proceed with pitbull talk

You guys do realize the original post was from Mineral Wells and not Collin County? Mineral Wells is about wild West Texas as it gets. Most likely a lion. Bobcats wont do that much damage in that short of time, but who knows?

Lohn Valley ,,Brady Tx

I shot at a Mountain Lion one day becase he was trying to kill my pitbull. Hell all I had was my Savage so I missed.

I call bobcat. The woman screaming does sound like a bobcat to me. A lease we have near caddo is across a dirt road from a goat farm. I hear bobcats all the time trying to take the kids or nannies. Plus i shot this one trailing a doe by 100yds or less at this same lease. The doe was by no means loud but this cat was absolutely silent moving across the dead leaves and branches.

I used to have a lease south of Graham near Bunger and there were big cats there. We saw the tracks one day near one of the feeders. Also one night we went to check a feeder and had one snarl at us from the darkness. That was the first time I ever heard one.

Graham is only 32 miles from Mineral Wells as the crow flies. So I don't doubt at all that there are cats around Mineral Wells.

I"m also wondering if the "woman scream" came from the yearling deer as it was being attacked. Who knows.

I live in Johnson county, my family raise sheep and goats. We have had a couple sheep killed by mountain loins over the years. They have also eaten some of our dead sheep we have out in the dead pile. On several occasions we have heard the screams of a lion. But, they are always just passing through. There for may r a day or two and then gone. These big cats are ones that are from other areas, they travel great distances in search of food. Most often our encounters with these cats are associated with drought conditions. When it is dry down south, they head north to find more food. We have had 100 lb. grown ewes carried over fences. A task that could not be done by a bobcat. Mountain lions are in the area, most of the time just passing through, the chances of ever seeing, or having any problems with the lion in this situation are very slim. As for the pictures, most people that see them only see them for a brief moment, very rarely enough time to get a picture. I do have a couple of buddies that have game camera picture of them.

Post them up I would love to see your game cam pics of them.

There are big cats in northern montague county along the red river. We have had dogs tree them a couple times out coon hunting. Its quiet a sight to see an animal that size jump out of a tree 20 ft in the air and hit the ground running. All you "there is no big cats around here guys" go ahead, I expect it. I have seen one with my own eyes on two occasions while coon hunting on the red river.

I will try an get the pics from them

pig. they will do the same, eat te insides, sofest food 1st

Really? A pig chased down and killed a deer then ate it.

After looking at the pics, I am going to say this is a boar hog, yeap a HOG. I have gone on calls from ranchers with dead calfs that look just like this. Thinking they had a lion, only to find out it was a hog.

Doc

A hog really. One that jump a iron fence into a back yard and then killed a deer. Lol

Not saying it jumped a fence, but form my professional opinion this is a hog. If you have any remains of the deer or dog that was killed, hair on the fence other than the deer I would be happy to perform a DNA for you. I would want to know waht was lurking around out there. People don't realize how dangerous and mean these hogs are.


Doc

You must be messing with us. I would be more inclined to believe aliens, sasquatch, or even the Chupacabra before I believed a hog chased down a deer, mangled its throat, and returned hours later to eat its guts. Not to mention whatever it was tried to pull it through a wrought iron fence. Furthermore, there has never been a hog seen around our neighborhood or any signs of them whatsoever.

No I'm not kidding, Again I am not saying a hog jumped the fence. I am not saying a hog killed the deer, although they can. What I am saying is that in my professional opinion a hog caused this damage to the deer carcus. In the past 20 years I have seen more and more what the hogs are capable of, believe me or not. You can come to the clinic and look at some 1000 pictures of calfs, fawns, does, sheep, even grow cows that hogs have taken down. I have spent over 1000 hrs just last year studying game cameras and video proving this fact.

A picture is worth a thousand words lets see some.

Yes sir ! In the mean time read my documented data put out by the TPWD called the feral hog. The predation Is well documented as well by Texas A&M in their coop extension.


Doc

I didn't know a Bobcat sounded like a woman creaming!

i bet dogs cat would of caught him long before back yard if not just give up chase

I wonder if the doe got hung up in the fence somehow and the cat got it then? Or any other animal(s)?

I asked my neighbor about that and he said the fence was not messed up at 12:30 am when he looked at the deer. That is all I have to go on.

looks like a Desert Eagle .50 cal to me...hollow point...