Thread: Robert

whatever........

It looks a lot better with the jaw attached, Did you clean the teeth up more? they look super bright.

Hey GW havent seen you around in quite some time! I saw the skull first hand and cant figgir what the hell it is its got interesting dimensions...

Originally Posted by gratewhitehuntr

there is no hide

I have a bobcat skull (with some cracks in it ) and that is not one
bobcats have much larger occipital sockets and are more blunt
african and american loins are also more blunt

Some looking found this
Tiger Skull



the story is a fraud
I suspect the skull to be fraudulent as well as there don't appear to be joints between plates
also the coloration is incorrect for the skull to have been dyed so dark would suggest immersion in tar
the teeth would not be so white unless they had been removed for bleaching

here is a pic of a tiger I killed with my bare hands
NO WAIT, CUT IT'S THROAT WITH MY 8/8 W&B
Tiger Skull Replica

come on man, dead heads are my thing

The story is simply a story. I was hoping to make you folks smile. If you believe I was trying to convince you that a bobcat and a coyote were having a discussion in my backyard you must be paranoid. It was not meant to fool you or anyone else so don't feel so proud of yourself Mr. GrateWhiteSmartypants. Here's what really happened:

One day I came home and a turkey vulture was standing at the edge of the pond in my yard. I figured it was eating some of the dozens of eggs our domestic ducks leave all over the place. They lay eggs in the water. They lay eggs on the grass. Sometimes they even make nests and lay eggs there but they never sit on the eggs long enough to hatch them. In any case, I just thought the vulture's presence was a fluke and ignored it. About four days later my girlfriend called my attention to a dead critter in the water. It was about two feet long and furry floating in an oily slick at the edge of the pond where Mr. Vulture was. I poked the dead animal with a stick but it was too heavy to move and it was smelling quite putrid so I just left it alone and hoped it would be taken away by the current or another critter. Well, it didn't. Each night something messed with it and it was in slightly different locations but it just wouldn't go away. One morning it was out of the water and on the lawn. Now I hoped it would be gone the next night. Well, that evening Basil went out to do his business and came back in the house after rolling in the dead mess that used to be some sort of mammal. He came in the house very pround of his new fragrance but it was bad enough to gag a maggot. I ran him up and put his stinky ass in the tub and shampooed him three times while I planned how to get rid of the rotten carcass.

The remains of the animal was just a few strands of fur and bones. There weren't even any feet left. I used an ice chopper and removed its head and transported the rest of it to a shallow grave in the woods. The head I put on top of a 14 foot tall stone, hopefully to be cleaned by the bugs, birds and elements.

After my last surgery the head had been out on that stone for three weeks and so I decided I could finish the cleaning job myself (without violating the surgeon's orders not to lift anything over 5lbs). I boiled the head on an electric burner outdoors in hydrogen peroxide for a few hours. All the connective tissie had gone away, the mandible had fallen off in two pieces and the teeth were falling out. I learned why Robert was found dead in the shallow water at the edge of the pond. The right cheek bone on Robert's skull had been shattered. He apparently was bitten in the face by a larger, likely taller animal (which, knowing we have coyotes on the property, is how I put Johann in the story). I pulled the teeth out completely and painted the skull with woodland camo colors then I had a hell of a time relocating what teeth I had left but I did a pretty good job.

In my story I never said Basil got out to meet Robert nor Johann. After he met with a skunk one night we know better than to let Basil out after dark. However, nearly every night Basil alerts us that some critters are trying to get our ducks. A few weeks ago we lost two pekins (our oldest ducks) and a swedish hen over a four night stretch. We know we have foxes, coyotes, bobcats, opossums, skunks, deer, racoons, beavers and woodchucks on the property. I showed the skull to a bunch of people and we sort of eliminated everything but bobcat so we made an educated guess that Robert was a bobcat.

So what do you think Mr. Hunter? Have you elevated your belief in your masculinity by calling me a liar? I still believe it's a bobcat but who really cares. I was only trying to spread some sunshine. You know, make a joke. Ha Ha.

Sheesh, some people really know how to suck the fun out of a situaton.

Hey Icedog much prefer the first story made me smile, no joke is ever that funny when you have to explaine it

I just went outside to feed our ducks and found out why at 2:00 this morning, Basil woke me when he ran barking and growling, teeth and hackles to the door. We lost another duck, a rouan hen. She was my personal favorite. And then there were three. I suspect credit must go to Johann because Robert's skull, fraudulent or otherwise sits atop a truncated pyramid in my living room.

Take it easy icedog I am sure noone meant any real harm.

yeah yeah, you have giant genitalia , I have giant genitalia, even TJ over there, you guessed it, giant genitalia

ok, actual scull, funny (intentionally bogus story)

damn the camo paint is an affront against nature

but, since it is an ACTUAL dead head I'm interested

I'll go look some more

I also have a book of bur bearing animals indigenous to the US, I'll look at that as a process of elimination

at this point I still say it looks like a tiger, however, I'm unsure as to how well the teeth would be developed at such a small size

if it were a young animal it would explain their nice condition however, which was a good part of my claiming fake
you don't bite stuff to death all day without breaking or wearing teeth

do you have any better pics?
a top view an a bottom view with lower jaw removed

don't forget that a head wound could have been inflicted by a car as well
I doubt that a coyote would take on a cat this size, they generally aren't that ballsy

there have also been reports (confirmed) from OZ of feral cats who had lived in the wild and attained sizes of aprox 60 pounds.

I do not however, think that it is a domestic cat skull, however long it may have lived feral

the problem mainly is that there are few cats with eyes that small
go look at cat skulls (if you haven't already) and you will see what I mean

very possibly a wolverine
not sure if they were extirpated from CT or not
more probable than a juvenile tiger

more pics?

had a friend of a friend the other day claim to have gone out west and killed a monster buck, wanted to show it to us
turned out it was a replica of the "Kaser Buck"
course I called him a liar right to his face
oops
bet he spent $4K on that trip, didn't kill anything, bought a replica for $1-3K and made up a story, just to get called out on it
I may have overreacted somewhat to this post

Originally Posted by icedog

The story is simply a story. I was hoping to make you folks smile.

Well you fooled me. Good story telling!

X

Its actually a very small skull. The pictures are quite misleading and make it look huge. My moneys on fox.

And my genitalia isn't giant its just very large Ask around...