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I have a Bengal cat that looks just like that...,he gets under my house feeder and swipes at deer! JMO

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How about you or some of these other folks, PROVE that it Ain't a Bobcat. Can You Do That??????????

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100% bobcat

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You don't know, so you can't say anything 100%. plus you already gave your opinion two post earlier that it was a bobcat.::

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That is a bobcat with a GREAT spotted coat.

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Contrary to some advice given above I say DO NOT shoot that animal, on the small chance that it is an ocelot. The ocelot were on the endangered list at one time and I think the "texas ocelot" may still be protected,(but I'm not sure so I wouldn't say 100%)

Here are some links that might be of interest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocelot
http://www.edf.org/article.cfm?contentID=5110

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Let me rephrase it...110% sure its a bobcat, we trapped one back in Dec. & she had the same spots just not as vibrant as that (& I have pics of the cat, still in the freezer). Plus I have seen, killed & trapped enough to know the difference. It isnt a ocelot.. NEVER that far north

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It ain't an ocelot, the tail is not long enough.

Have you ever seen a Black Bobhcat???

Plenty of other folks have, enough so that it is accepted that they exist.

Prove that it isn't a Bobcat and it is an Ocelot, Can You Do That From That One Picture????

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Who says I am worked up???

Now, have You seen a Black Bobcat?????

Why are You getting so worked up because I don't agree with your assessment on the situation????????

I can say what it definitely isn't, but as to what it definitely is, probability dictates that it is a Bobcat, not a domestic breed of house cat, and dang sure not an Ocelot or Margay.

I am not worked up, I just believe that the picture is of a Bobcat, but I can not prove it, just like no one else can dis-prove it.

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bobcat....look at tpwd or usfws species description. Today, an ocelot occurs in deep south texas in very thick brush. I have included a short description from mammals of texas online

Once ranged over southern part of Texas with occasional records from north and central Texas; now restricted to several isolated patches of suitable habitat in three or four counties of Rio Grande Plains.

Habits. The ocelot is a neotropical felid that once inhabited the dense, almost impenetrable chaparral thickets of South Texas, the Gulf coast, and the Big Thicket of eastern Texas. Today, it is found only in several small, isolated patches of suitable habitat remaining in South Texas and is on the verge of completely disappearing from the state. It is listed as "endangered" by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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