![]() ![]() He believed that the horse had accidentally slashed its own neck on a barbed-wire fence. There were no tooth punctures or claw marks on the animal, just the gash." But an animal expert determined that the wound on the horse's neck "was a wound a cat could not make. The Milford panther, for example, was supposed to have been responsible for killing a horse and ripping open its throat. The subject of the woman's video must have been about the size of a house cat, which is probably what the woman saw.īill Walker, writing in the Ann Arbor News, summed up the Michigan panther scares in an article headlined "Big cat sightings fiction so far."Īnd if the DNR experiment didn't cast enought doubt on the reports, there are lots of holes in the stories about beasts roaming southern Michigan. When the two video shots were superimposed, the "panther" was very small compared to the real cougar. And recently a woman, spotting a beast slinking through a nearby field, videotaped it from the deck of her home.However, investigators from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources repeated the taping while an agent walked a pet cougar through the same field. Phantom panthers were reported in Manchester, Mich., in 1984, in Milford in 1986, and in Imlay City this spring. During the past five years, many southeastern Michiganders claim to have sighted black panthers - the felines, not the political activists - running wild just 30 or 40 miles outside of Motown. There are legendary big cats in Michigan, and I don't mean the Detroit Tigers or Lions. ![]()
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