We also have jackals too, and we often heard them in the fields, since some lambs didnt always come back from grazing and would cry out for a while, then silence... then jackal howls. We actually found a pair in a field when we went out to hunt porcupine but we only saw the eyes since they dissapear pretty fast. Ah i love life when i visit the farmya...raccoons, foxes and coyotes are bad enough...I don't need 35 pound cats attacking stuff too...I'd run out of ammo here lol...luckily the big cats we have aren't plentiful in my state.