Eastern Cougar or Panter

[DieselnHooters]

About 1/4th mile from our place we have a family 1/2 hippy and the other unknown with 6/8 kids and each have at least 2 dogs. Number of adults never determined.
When the noise level of all the dogs and kids gets to high. I have a 200 watt Amp and at full volume play a computer down loaded call from a bob cat.
There is silence for the rest of the night.
ken

lol

if only those isolated cougars could find their way to those areas where they have problems with wild hogs.....or coyotes

 

[scesnick]

I live on the Md./Wv border up on top of a mountain. My nearest neighbor is almost 3 miles away. I have seen 3 mountain lions personally in the past 15 yrs. I have bow hunted this area for 30 yrs and I know exactly what a bobcat looks like and these 3 sightings were NOT bobcats.

Also, when I was away at training and my wife was home with our newborn daughter she was getting ready to leave the house and the baby was crying. it must have attracted the Mountain lion because it was outside the house in our yard and she was a lit timid to open the door. ( I don't blame her) She called DNR and of course they told her is was a bobcat.. lol... yeah, right..

With that being said, I do wonder why no one has gotten a snapshot of one with a trail cam. ???

 

[stratton]

There in new york also. I was surveying along a country road in Central NY, when this huge black cat crossed no more then 150' in front of my co-worker and I. We both looked like we just saw a ghost. We asked one of the neighboring property owners and he said that he was seen the same cat a few times. And he will never walk in the woods with out a gun now. There was an article in the New york Sportsman a few years ago about sightings.

 

[clemsonfor]

The crazy thing is that when DNR passes sightings off as bobcats. It may be possible for some city person who has no idea what is supposed to live in an area or not. I mean if you showed them the animals or picturs could they name them and weather they live in the area or not. Any you take a country person like many of us or your wife who lives in the woods and sees these things weekly (not lions of course), she knows when she sees something that does not usually live there!! I think a big @$$ cat with a huge long curved tail fits the bill, especially when you consider a bobcat has that name for a reason, it has a bobbed tail, that is like 10"s long on a huge one!!

 

[nybirdman]

There has been large cat sightings in northern NY for more than 20 years.
NYSDEC will deny till they are blue in the face.We had one in our area with a radio tracking collar.We are not in the Adirondacks,St. Lawrence river valley.
I have not seen one myself...but have talked to dozens of people that have;experienced out-doors people and hunters.What is confusing is that about half the ones seen are black.....captive bred?
If there are none in the state why are they protected.This change was made just a couple of years:confused2: ago.They don't protect dinosaurs or sasquatches.

 

[Jstpssng]

There has been large cat sightings in northern NY for more than 20 years.
NYSDEC will deny till they are blue in the face.We had one in our area with a radio tracking collar.We are not in the Adirondacks,St. Lawrence river valley.
I have not seen one myself...but have talked to dozens of people that have;experienced out-doors people and hunters.What is confusing is that about half the ones seen are black.....captive bred?
If there are none in the state why are they protected.This change was made just a couple of years:confused2: ago.They don't protect dinosaurs or sasquatches.

They also protect wolves and Canadian Lynx; yet both of these species are hunted elsewhere. If species is living at the edge of it's range, that fact becomes an excuse to protect it.

We have few to no rattlesnakes in NH & ME; should they be protected? Some will argue yes.

 

[Jstpssng]

Some 40 years ago my wife and I saw a mountain lion come out of the trees on the edge of a field of a horse barn. This was near the Quabbin resevoir area in Mass. About 20 years ago I saw one in Glenburn, (Central) ME - wooded spruce area - more woods than people. Someone at work (avid hunter - bear/moose/coyote/etc) reported seeing one further north. They are there. What species - I don't know, but they are mountain lions.

I almost remember reading about the one near Glenburn. The news reporter got a kick out of the investigating game warden's reaction when something big took off in the swale grass... it turned out to be a deer.

I'm in the woods in all seasons, in places sensible people would never go ; if there was a sustainable population it seems that I or a coworker would have come across tracks at some point in time.
I suspect that most sightings within my range at least, are either transients or domesticated animals which were released and which soon succumb because they are unable to fend for themselves.

 

[dmccarty]

My brother lives along the Linville river in North Carolina. He's seen mountain lions in the area known as the Linville river gorge. They have also been photographed by game cameras here in Missouri. The ones here, at least, may have been brought in by the Conservation department, though that may just be a rumor. At any rate, at least one has been killed here and DNA testing indicated it vwas unlikely to have been an escaper captive animal. Are there still panthers in Florida?

Chuck

There are still Florida Panthers. There were not many of them when I moved out of the state and the FLA was spending quite a bit of money to grow the population. Not sure if they have succeeded though. Most of the Panthers are in South/South West Florida.

I would be shocked if there are not any Panthers/Painters/Cougars in Linville Gorge. That is a very remote area with very few people. I would love to hike that area. One of the first Firefox books has some stories about Panthers in the mountains of NC down towards Franklin which is close to GA. There was one story of a person being followed down a creek at night by a panther. I hiked a trail on that very creek many years ago and I had to keep looking behind me.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

To all those who have thought about killing one you may want to rethink it. Like the guy i mentioned in GA you to could be in jail if you told anyone. Most states i beleive they are protected even if they are said not to be there. I know that is the case here in SC it explicitly says under protected species cougar/panther.

A Seminole or Miccosukee Indian got away with killing a Florida Panther a few decades ago. :laughing: But he was tried and spent quite a bit of time in court. Not really sure it was worth it and certainly not recommended.

Later,
Dan

 

[TravisTractor]

my cousin was ticketed for takeing a shot at an endangered species several years back, it was killing calves, but the game and fish denied that there were lions here. wrote the ticket anyway. SW ARKANSAS DOES NOT HAVE LIONS