Another What is it?

[Wea300mag]

I pulled my camera from by bear honey hole and moved it closer to home. It is still an hour walk behind a closed gate. I'm on the fence to what this is, a small bear or big cougar? It's the only pic I got of it so we may never know.

[rb2506]

My first thought was deer

[carpsniperg2]

hard to say not a bear from the hair and the build from what i can tell i say small deer or big coug has the mussels like a coug

[fishermanjoe]

not a deer. prob a dog or a black cougar. Its tough to say. I would have to agree with the hair being to short for a bear.

[Wea300mag]

It's probably 6-7 miles from the nearest house so I ruled out dog, but you never know.

The shoulder muscles make me think coug, but it seems too dark. 

[byrdman]

Moose.

[lokidog]

If you stand in the same spot and get a photo of yourself, you can get an idea of how tall that shoulder is.  I would say cougar or deer depending on the height.

[highside74]

That's a deer

[bowhunterforever]

That's a deer

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[bobcat]

I don't know what it is but it sure doesn't look like a deer to me. I think it's a bear.

[Skyvalhunter]

Deer

[lewy]

I think its a deer as well

[grundy53]

Either deer or cougar.

[Woodchuck]

Bobcat 

[MIKEXRAY]

Looks just like a deer's back to me, that was my first thought and after studying it for a while my same conclusion. I don't see the dark people are describing and deer have pretty muscular backs. I say deer. Mike