VALDOSTA — The veterinarian believed the marks on Larry Rodgers’ horse were too large for a bob cat. They didn’t match marks made by coyotes.
Larry Rodgers believes his horse Peppy was attacked by a big cat. He and his family have seen Florida panthers on their property just a couple of miles south of Clyattville, off Madison Highway.
“My first guess would be a Florida panther,” Rodgers says.
The attack on Rodgers’ horse comes at a time when several people have made claims of seeing everything from panthers to tigers and even a maned lion prowling the woods of South Georgia, primarily Echols and Lowndes counties.
The state Game Management Division claims no specific reports of lions or tigers. Still, late last spring, The Times received a few calls and e-mails regarding something large and possibly feline traipsing through the woods.
One claimed a full-grown lion had been spotted by a group of loggers near Naylor. Another report claimed a group of Moody airmen saw what was described as a cross between a bear, a coyote, a fox and a deer in Grand Bay. Rumors of a lion have circulated again in Echols recently.
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