In the comments section of a previous post, Dave Steen said that in addition to the handful of ambiguous trail camera photos that might be a jaguarundi, we also should be getting trail camera images of black house cats that are clearly just that and nothing else. My response was that nobody's likely to report or post such photos, because it would be of little interest to anyone.
Well, this is without doubt a domestic cat, Felis catus. There are a lot of them out there. I got these photos far too easily for someone with an interest in melanistic felids. I'll admit that had the animal been walking away with its head down and out of clear view, or had the focus or lighting been poor, this might have gone to the "interesting photos" file. Having multiple images certainly helps (these were four minutes apart). If there are jaguarundis in this part of the world, it will take either a dead body or photos as clear and unambiguous as these to confirm their existence.
