Lee,
I can't remember what Giovanni said either except that I think he said something like "civet". Up close it looks like a Bobcat only smaller - maybe half the size. I saw a skin of one at two places we hunted - both obviously killed by landowners. At one place, Franco's Dad's property, there were leghold traps in the shed and fairly fresh fox hides that had been skinned cased but not turned like we do here. The fox hides seemed about the same size as our Red Fox only the tail and rump were very dark, almost black. I think I saw one one morning in the head lights while we were traveling to a ducking spot.
What I found interesting about the traps was that they looked like a normal leghold except the springs were like those on a Conibear though I never saw any Conibears.
Pete
