Wampus Cat - Mascot

Mascot

The Wampus cat is the mascot of the following:

• Clark Fork Junior/Senior High School, Clark Fork, Idaho - seen as a yellow cougar with a spiked ball on its tail.
• Conway High School, Conway, Arkansas - seen as a six-legged cat.
• Atoka High School, Atoka, Oklahoma
• Itasca High School, Itasca, Texas
• Leesville High School, Leesville, Louisiana
• The Tennessee Wampus Cats, an Amateur Athletics Union basketball team, Knoxville, Tennessee.
• The Texas Hill Country Wampus Cat, (tejas escarpes wampus feline—mythology--, lives and thrives in the Texas hill country and is more specifically called the "Side Hill Wampus". It is born and lives its whole life on the sides of hills. One set of legs, the down hill set, grow longer than the up hill set. Some studies have indicated this may actually be caused by the way the mother delivers the kitten, others seem to indicate it may be hereditary. However when both parents don't carry the same gene the opposite legs are longer and the kitten rarely survives. The Wampus cat is easily excitable and a formidable foe. They are known to hunt in groups and will attack humans. It is important to know or determine quickly, if attacked, whether you have been attacked by a "Right or Left" legged Cat, determined by the longer set of legs, to know if you need to run up or down hill to escape. The reason being as soon as the short set of legs get on the down hill side, the cat falls over and the chase ends. Wampus Cats have been known to run completely around a hill and attack hikers from the rear simply because they thought the animal had just run off. Wampus Cats have been observed on level ground pressing their bodies together with their short set of legs intertwined on the inside, running in such a coordinated manner to convince observers that evolution is beginning to change these animals. They are omnivores and are partial to human flesh. They have teeth much like a Bob Cat only larger and more powerful jaws similar to a cougar. Their eyes are not only reflective but somewhat luminescent and appear reddish orange. These animals do not do well in captivity and no specimens are known to exist except in the wild.
• San Diego State University considered using Wampus Cats as a mascot prior to the eventual adoption of Aztecs as the SDSU mascot in 1925.