Cougar

[Ford850]

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Here is the photo I was talking about.
The fern at the back of the cat to the fern at the front was a little over 3 feet apart. The ferns were 3 feet tall.

That looks more like a Bobcat to me, especially due to it's size. According to this comparison on the Indiana DNR site, Cougars are 7' - 8' long. DNR: Mountain Lions in Indiana

 

[jack707]

It could be a young one NEVER belive the dnr they lie even when they tell the truth.

 

[check]

I would Love to see one! I am so jealous of my bolderb rother, who saw one while we were all fishing in the one of the streams south west of Calgary, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. He was sitting at a hole at the side of the creek, and a cougar wandered down to the creek on the opposite side, took a drink, and wandered off. Never saw my brother, nor smelled him. The thrill of a lifetime!

 

[flusher]

Cougars show up occasionally here in the Sacramento area and throughout Northern CA. They generally follow the American River from the Sierra foothills East of Sac. There's a nice hike/bike trail between Folsom and Sac along the river where the sightings generally occur.

You don't want to mess with cougars. When I lived in Orange County CA (1990-2004) cougars were spotted coming down into the county parks from the Santa Ana Mountains occasionally. In Jan 2004 a guy on a mountain bike was killed by a female cougar in the Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park, where I would sometimes do my roadwork. The cat was driven down to the lowland by the wildfire that destroyed most of the Cleveland National Forest a few weeks earlier. Scary stuff.

Mauled Man May Have Been Fixing Bike - latimes

 

[jack707]

Lions are worshiped in california

 

[MossRoad]

Local News: Four mountain lion sightings confirmed at NSA Crane near Burns City gate (09/23/10)
This is the corner of Greene, Daviess and Martin Counties

Yep, that was 6 years ago. The Indiana DNR never denied it.

 

[MossRoad]

One with infrared pictures also Greene County
Local News: Mountain lion: Several more unconfirmed Greene County sightings reported (05/10/10)

Here confirmed
Local News: DNR confirms presence of a mountain lion in rural area east of Bloomfield (05/07/10)

Infrared pictures.... in color.... hahahhaa

 

[MossRoad]

St Joe County (South Bend area). I reported it through the DNR's web site, but they have not contacted me yet.

That's where I live. Whereabouts in the county? We've got some land off of 23 between SB and North Liberty and the person that owns the neighboring property said he got a bobcat on the game camera. He's supposed to send me a picture of it sometime.

That bear over the winter was causing quite a stir. It was up at Elbel golf course, then moved west toward Michigan City, then back into Michigan where they captured it and euthanized it.

 

[MossRoad]

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My assumption is that as the number of deer hunters decline and the resulting number of deer increase, we are going to have more cougars spreading out and reclaiming their role in the ecosystem.

It probably has nothing to do with the decline in hunters and everything to do with deer acclimating to urban human habitat, lush lawns to graze on and plenty of water in those "lakes" that are really retention ponds in the subdivisions.

 

[Steave]

Large mountain lion spotted in LaFayette neighborhood - : News

This is the latest news about 30 miles north of me in North Ga. They have spotted mountain lions in the area for some time now. They hear them more ofter than see them of course. Now they spotted one in a subdivision close to town and has the town more concerned now.

We have very large bobcats around here and of course you hear stories of someone hearing a mountain lion screaming at night but I've never heard one. With this going on up the road it makes me wonder though if folks are actually hearing a big kitty. I always just blame it on a screech owl they make a heck of a racket when its quiet outside.

 

[MossRoad]

How many of you have ever been outside, at night, with a few beers in you, and a couple raccoons get to fighting 30-40' away from you?

You think its the Sasquatch coming to get you and run like heck! :laughing:

 

[brown40]

We've had them unofficially in Maine for over 30 years. I say this because I've seen them--personally--in broad daylight running across route 9. As a passenger/adolescent with my Dad, and as the driver with my son. Tail 2/3 the length of the body--shaped like a leopard/jaguar rather than a domestic/bobcat shape. I don't get out much either, so if I've been fortunate enough to see two, over thirty years apart tells me I'm either the luckiest guy in Maine, or there is an active enough breeding population that people are spotting them regularly. I'm not sure it would even be enough to bring a cougar corpse to officials to confirm.

 

[jack707]

Back in the early 90 I was driving up North from Phoenix and a gray mt.lion ran across my car it was like a long gray blurr it was so fast.

 

[MF283]

For years around here, pics have popped up, DNR said that they weren't around, in order to protect them. In these part's, every other bubba in the country would be trying to find the Endangered cat to kill it.
Recently, as far as we know, they have been restocking them in the Smokey Mtn Natl Park, they will be protected should they stay there.
I hope they take, as mentioned already, there are a lot of ferral animals that need to be depleted. For years, DNR was taking problem bears out of the Natl Park & relocating them to another about 2 hours east of us, most would find their way back to the Park, in recent years they have been sighted within 30 minutes to an hour of where we live.
Years ago, there were bear sightings West of us on a regular basis, one was finally killed, found out it was a problem bear that was being hauled from ARK to New Mexico & the transporter decided he could make more money by dropping them off in TN, wonder how that worked, you'd think he'd have to contact NM DNR upon delivery & release:confused3:

Ronnie

 

[jack707]

Just like the snake people release in S.Flroida.

 

[davesl708]

DNR said there were no mountain lions in Kansas and Missouri till several were road kill and DNA testing proved they were wild not released.
Look for tracks and listen for their cries.

 

[rekees4300]

Live in North Central Indiana. We just cut the weeds down in the field. When I was mowing the actual lawn last night I think I saw a Cougar come out of the woods into the field and check things out. Then she went back in the woods.

Live in SE Indiana. Lions and Tigers and Bears ... OH MY! Report of a Black Bear spotted in southern Indiana recently. Apparently swam across Ohio River from Kentucky. Need to upgrade my concealed carry from .22 to .357!

Expert: Indiana black bear sightings likely to become more common | WISH-TV

 

[teejk]

Not unlike many other territorial species, as populations go up the excess will seek new territory because they are no longer welcome in the home range. Bears, wolves, coyotes and bobcats come to mind. We have had confirmed sightings of cougars in Wis but I think they were merely rogue males "passing through". I expect that with time we will get some breeders.

 

[Bird]

When we lived in Navarro County, TX, I met one person who claimed to have seen a mountain lion and heard of a couple of others who claimed to have seen one. And one elderly lady who lived alone had a full grown ram in a pen and she found it's remains one morning some distance from the pen, no open gate, no fence damage, etc. She claimed it had to be a cougar to be able to jump the fence with that ram. Some believe; some don't, and I don't really have an opinion. I KNOW that I saw a bobcat less than half a mile down the road from our place once, and I found a dead one in the road about 10 miles from the house that I assume was hit by a car or truck. But I've not seen any cougars.

 

[DieselnHooters]

When we lived in Navarro County, TX, I met one person who claimed to have seen a mountain lion and heard of a couple of others who claimed to have seen one. And one elderly lady who lived alone had a full grown ram in a pen and she found it's remains one morning some distance from the pen, no open gate, no fence damage, etc. She claimed it had to be a cougar to be able to jump the fence with that ram. Some believe; some don't, and I don't really have an opinion. I KNOW that I saw a bobcat less than half a mile down the road from our place once, and I found a dead one in the road about 10 miles from the house that I assume was hit by a car or truck. But I've not seen any cougars.

Mountain LION is a bit of a misnomer as they are not of the Panthera genus (lion, tigers, jaguars) , unlike those they cant roar and their heads (and jaws) are not as large in relation to their body.

Funny as it may seems cougars are much more like our house kitties than the truly big cats.