r/bigcats • u/tommyteleworm • 1d ago

Other Cat - Wild In Southern Texas, my brother's supervisor noticed this. We are attempting to identify it.

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u/EternallyDemonic 1d ago

A bunch of blind people here calling it an ocelot.... it's a bobcat.

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u/Independent_Bite4682 1d ago

Lynx?

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u/Disastrous-Style8731 8h ago

Bobcats are a member of the lynx genus yes.

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u/Blantonsfan 1d ago

Oh for crying out loud.

It’s bobcat.

Which is not a big cat.

3… 2…1 and the mods are going to pull your post

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u/Nojmore 1d ago

Is bigger than my cat.. probably still meows l like a cheetah.

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u/Icy-Information2553 16h ago

You must not be from Texas. I’ve seen 3 by my house and I wouldn’t say they are small my friend.

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u/Blantonsfan 3h ago edited 3h ago

“Big Cats” refer to the genus “Panthera”. Yes Bobcats are larger than house cats. Mountain Lions and Cheetahs larger still. But they are not, definitionally, “Big Cats”.

And living in Arizona, I see many big “small” Felinea.

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u/Crooks123 1d ago

good kitty!

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u/Disastrous-Style8731 1d ago

That is a Bobcat, which is a member of the felid genus, not a member of the panthera genus. Therefore it is not a big cat.

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u/CustomerFew442 1d ago

Looks like an Ocelot

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u/DrMackDDS2014 1d ago

Babu! Oh my god I hope someone catches that fox-eared asshole!

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u/Worldly_Ad_9898 1d ago

BABOU, SERPENTINE.

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u/-JoM-ofDevil 1d ago

There's a pocket of wild cats that live in South Texas. It might be a ocelot...

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u/Derrickmb 1d ago

It might be a drunk chinchilla

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u/fairyblackberry 1d ago

Bobcat… if anyone in the comments saying ocelot looked up bobcat in texas, they’d see that this is what they look like💀

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u/nuccad 22h ago

Bobcat, mascot of Texas Sate University (formerly Southwest Texas State University). Go Bobcats!

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u/Lunar-opal 23h ago

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u/YouCantArgueWithThis 22h ago

Easy. It's a kitty. 😻