lol..same thing in Michigan. People have shots of cougars from their deer cameras...yet the DNR says the same thing...escaped or released from captivity. Clearly they're multiplying because nothing is hunting them.
For years my family has made their deer camp at the same place in Roscommon and last year on a beer run, my son followed one down their path and then it darted off into the brush...He was going ON a beer run not returning FROM the beer run...:O)
Awe heck, people got video of one somewhere around Westland or East of it, then one up around Rochester if I am not mistaken. Some question if these "cats" were from drug dealers in Detroit and let loose i.e. some other big cat, not Cougars.