Re: the Bobcat machine picture:
Cute, and predicted by me long before it was posted, in fact, before I posted. The only one that I didn't predict was the Moose eating Chupacabra - nice one by the way. But I had the Sasquach, Lockness and Bobcat machine called before I posted.
However, It looks like that yellow one in the background is "Just a cat' ... Heh. You can tell by its tail.
Yes, my ego is now engaged.
FYI: The black and white cat in the background of the picture is MY CAT - I pointed this out in the original post, which addresses all details except for the fact that there is, in none of the pictures out of the 16, a discernible domestic tail. It doesn't prove a negative, but all things taken together, this cat does not look like it has anything more than at most a 4" bob stump. If anyone posts anymore urban legend pictures I will accuse them also of having at most a 4" bob stump, and just as invisible in the presence of a female kitty in the evening. Hope I didn't offend the AM.
I know my black and white cat is there there. She provides scale. a few seconds before the shots, she was growling at the cat - they saw the headlights and both sat down suprised and stooned. the larger cat which I still deny is a coon, is 2.5 times her size. 30 seconds after I got the pictures my cat ran it off the property at high speed and more growling, which one would assume means it was domestic, except that my cat was also wild for the first 2 years of her life, raising a family, killing their food, protecting them from predators. So she doesn't take doodoo from other beasts.
I'll get the rest of the pics up -I realize it's unfair to refer to them while they are not up. May link to all and only post a few ... they're a half meg each, and don't want to be sucking too many bytes over the intratubes and through the FR servers, on the other hand, those pictures are nighttime, and don't want to lose what clarity there is by optimizing them.
Not a coon. I'm not saying it's definitely a wild species - I posted it because I was unsure, but not a coon. Facial structure is wrong. At this point I'm most behind Hetty's guess. There are mixed opinions out there about whether the twain can couple, and I found very little talking about 'how to definitively tell the difference.'