The Black Cat in the Field

"I'd grown up on a farm, so we'd seen coyotes and bobcats," he says. "As soon as it saw me, it darted and went basically over the fence." There are numerous sightings of black panthers in Texas; one theory is they're melanistic jaguars that have escaped capture or sighting. A large feral cat killed in Australia was found to be nearly six feet long from no tip of tail.