I think it's an escapee from the zoo. If the sides are 2x10, then it's safe to assume that the bottom is also made from 2x something. Blowing up the picture, and taking a tape measure to the monitor gives me a measurement of almost 55" from tip of tail to where the nose would be if it was fully broadside. Going by the height of the side of the trough, and measuring the tail, the tail alone would be about 23" long. Because of depth perception fooling the eye with a camera (look at the how Bruce holds fish - not picking on Bruce) it's hard to measure the length of the whole cat because it's not in the same plane as the trough (parallel to the trough). Is the trough setting on bricks laying sideways?

I'm not 100% sure that it's a fully mature melanistic "puma", but I am pretty sure that it's bigger than any house cat that I've seen.

I believe that it's bigger than the cat that Todd saw.

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