"mmmmm, an illiongal felinial"
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The comments are priceless. People are reporting seeing cougars, bears, and coyotes all along eastern seaboard states despite 'officials' flatly denying they exist.
"mmmmm, an illiongal felinial"
Here in Pennsylvania, there have been numerous sightings of what is believed to be mountain lions.
“Officials” have proclaimed all those sightings to be mistakes.
Maybe he didn't get the memo or as the last survivor, committed suicide by SUV.
Sad kitty ping
We have a goodly number of FL panthers (or cougars, or puma or mountain lions, whatver you wish to call them) here in the Sunshine State. They are on the endangered list but their numbers are steadily on the rise.
When I worked for American Cyanamid years ago there were lots of Maine guys working there, many of them hunters. A couple of them swore they had seen big cats in New England and that only Fish and Game officials believed they were extinct.
The comments are priceless. People are reporting seeing cougars, bears, and coyotes all along eastern seaboard states despite ‘officials’ flatly denying they exist.
If you have predators in your neighborhood, you have to solve it the old school way: put baby chicks in a trap and rotate with the neighbors to stay up late until the score evens.
OR, you could get your sheriff to deputize wildlife hippies who would gladly suck the overtime to get high and do nothing about it, either.
Why does this remind me of The Smothers Brothers?
undocumenteed working cougar?
My father used to tell the story about hunting in the Adirondacks in the early 1950s. He was bringing out a deer when this unknown animal started tracking him in a manner that spooked him, so he shot it. He said that he brought the animal back to Saranac Lake and nobody knew what it was.
Years later, when he was visiting me in Alaska, we were at the Mat-Su Vistor’s Center and he suddenly pointed to a pelt on the wall and said, “That’s the animal I shot.” It was a wolverine.
Wildlife experts say that the animals haven’t been seen there since the 1850s. Except my father claimed that he shot a wolverine 100 years later.
My guess is that there are a fair number of mountain lions back East, simply due to the huge numbers of white-tailed deer and the lions themselves are quiet and discreet. I’ve spent weeks on end in wilderness in the Pacific Northwest, and saw one mountain lion the entire time, and that’s in an area where they’re common. As far as coyotes go, my wife and I saw one on Cape Cod in 2001.
My other guess is that no wildlife official wants to declare a population of lions in their state, since it possibly might create a nightmare of endangered species regulations. Best not to attrack the attention of those people.
There have been numerous Jaguar sightings in southern New Mexico.
Big suckers too.
Many years ago - about 25 years, in fact - I saw a mountain lion stalking through the grass along the California coast near Point Reyes. Naturally, I was called a lunatic, I was told nobody sane had seen one since 1920, etc., etc.
About 10 years ago, the authorities came out and said, yes, there were mountain lions there, and in fact, there were a lot of them.
The only Cougar proven to have traveled 200 miles in one day.
Shame on that nasty SUV. Prolly killed the last of the species. That SUV needs to be locked up.
PING this one over to Slings And Arrows!:)=^..^=
Mrs BN saw one in Western NC about 15 years ago.