These versions (above) of the enhanced original photograph (below) by brineblank shows support for the "deer" camp. What would other enhancements demonstrate?

Or is it a felid, like the caracal above? Or canid, like that dog running across your road?

Is this photograph the "Mystery Animal" seen for decades in West Virginia’s Potomac Highlands?

This picture was taken by an automatic digital camera set on private property in a 3000 acre wilderness in which no human inhabitants live. It was caught on film on August 8, 2006 at 0700 Hours.

Since the original owners do not want to become embroiled in the heated Eastern Mountain Lion mystery debate, the Eastern Puma Research Network will be fielding all responses for this photograph. The EPRN can be reached via email at epuma [at] beaconnet [dot] net.

Photograph courtesy of the initial West Virginia photographer/owner of the digital camera, via John Lutz of EPRN.

To gain permission to show the "Mystery Animal" photograph (top), the above italicized statement was required to be published with it.

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Update: Cryptomundo reader Fred Facker sends along these new enhancements, in which he "bumped the levels, contrast, hues, etc looking for colorations that didn’t match the rest of the plant in hopes of finding some sort of outline. Here’s what I came up with. It’s really hard not to let the texture and shading of the bushes trick us into thinking they are part of the animal. That’s why I like to make it unrecognizable and then look for an outline."