Any ideas if this is a mountain lion?

This was taken this fall in the vicinity of St. Francis, MN. I’m looking at the size of it and I can’t believe it’s a bobcat. I know the picture quality isn’t the best, but look at the size of the legs and body. I don’t see a typical lion tail, but not sure if that’s because of the quality of the image or not. Size wise, looks to me it would dwarf my 60lb Drahthaar.

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I say bobcat. I don’t see a tail.

I agree.

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When I zoom in I see bobcat. I don’t see a resemblance to couger.

100% bobcat. Mountain lions are very long

I change my vote.

It’s a green sunfish. 100% sure. I would know.

If that were on my cam, I would not take much of a second look…..bobcat in my eyes…..

I would guess the height of the grass in the foreground just to the cats left is about 12 – 16 inches tall. I’ve never heard of a bobcat that big. I don’t see a tail (bobcat), has a short neck (bobcat), but appears to be WAY too big for a bobcat. I also don’t see much for the typical bobcat spots either.

Well, you asked for ideas and had a pretty unanimous consensus(minus the green sunfish vote…lol.).

Seems you had your mind convinced already.

I’m waiting for pug to draw a line and call it a snook lol I’d say a bobcat for sure where around St Francis was this

A mountain lion would be much longer and less blocky plus it would have a very long noticeable tail when walking like this critter is.

Cool where you at in St. Francis?

Bobcat

Holy Crap!! It’s one of those dog things from the Hunger Games!

you mean nobody came up with hose cat yet ???

KIA Gerbil

It’s a bobcat.

A mountain lion has a tail that’s more than half it’s total body length.

Also, use the length of the head from nose to ear to estimate the distance from shoulder to hip. It’s way too short to be a mountain lion.

That or it’s the even-more-elusive hose cat.

Grouse

Bobcat IMO. I circled the keys for my statement, notice pattering on inside of front leg as well as no discernable tail. If a tail was present it would show up, mt lions have rather long tails.

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Hodag

Set up a couple more cameras and put the neighbors cat in a cage for bait.

Sally Struthers

the shape of the head to me screams bobcat

Some good cougar reference ID info here courtesy of WI DNR, including pics:
http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/wildlifehabitat/cougar.html

I Say Bobcat

“Sally Struthers” cracked me up.

I bet your Draht would love to take a go at that cat. Ive got one too. Fierce dogs when it comes to varmints.

No way id let mine go after a cat. A coyote wouldnt worry me too much but not a cat.

I’d say its either a lynx or a bobcat. Lynx are pretty rare but I got a daylight picture of one when I was bear hunting a few years back up by sandstone.