Posted on 06/10/2011 8:03:41 AM PDT by george76
Conservation Experts: This Size Cat Hasn't Been Seen Here In 100 Years. There has been a wild animal alert issued in the northern suburbs. A mountain lion, yes, a mountain lion, is on the loose.
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We’re not looking for your Aunt Mildred’s kitty here, either. This is a big cat, a 160-pound predator that hunts and eats things.
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Ironically the Eastern mountain lion was officially declared extinct only a few months ago — in March.
(Excerpt) Read more at newyork.cbslocal.com ...
We have bear sightings often...nose to nose and more.
Sometimes we hear them as well as smell ...them.
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http://www.newhampshire.com/article/20110619/NEWHAMPSHIRE0301/110619897
John Harrigan wrote another article in yesterdays Sunday news regarding a cougar being struck by a auto in NH years back. It should be posted on the website soon. The link above is his followup to the CT reports.
Is The Cat Out Of The Bag?
Brian Palm, West Hartford
on 2011-06-22
I have followed The Courant's recent mountain lion articles with interest. It's refreshing to read such a variety of opinion, from the Department of Environmental Protection's stance to Bruce Borders' open-minded reasoning [letter, June 16, "The Cat Comes Back?"]. Though not an expert, I have personal experience of mountain lions in Connecticut. I learned about the woods on Talcott Mountain from the distinguished early West Hartford resident Frederick C. Morway of Ferncliff Drive. He taught me how to track animals and gave the simple warning: "Where there are deer, there are things that eat them." He pointed out that in the woods, a mountain lion could be right beside you and you would never know it. I have seen mountain lions several times. Some years ago I found large cat tracks in snow along the power lines and followed them to a crevice in an outcrop of rocks. I decided to follow no farther. Later I saw a photograph of a mountain lion eating from a trash can on Ferncliff Drive. I was glad I obeyed my instincts. My own experience, the photograph and the recent sightings seem to contradict official insistence that Connecticut cougars have been extinct for more than a century.
Guess he didn't get the memo.
CT has alot of DODOs, too. Those are the people who voted for Mallory!! (the DODObird is extinct, but the DODOvoter is alive in CT)
New news: Mountain Lion Killed In Milford Was From South Dakota
It is 1,800 miles from the Black Hills, South Dakota breeding population to Connecticut. Mountain Lion Necropsy photo
Amazing, a big cat makes a trip all the way to CT, sadly, does not survive it.
Wonder where our small population here in NY came from.
They’ve been here for longer than the sightings of this one.
Heck, there have been “several unconfirmed” sightings here since before 1993.
But every time somebody mentions it, the ‘officials’ shriek that there aren’t any here.
“Go East, young lion, go East.”
How the dickens does it get from the Wisconsin-Michigan border to Connecticut? From there the two routes are over the Mackinaw Bridge or through Chicago. (And with all the predators in Chi-town, that would be a bad choice.) Maybe it hitch-hiked on a flatbed truck.
“How the dickens does it get from the Wisconsin-Michigan border to Connecticut?”
One step at a time - just an idea.
“with all the predators in Chi-town, that would be a bad choice.”
Actually, it could have made it through “Rahmbo-stan” without being seen. Lots of feral cats for food, and even a wino or two. Not to mention small children whose druggie moms would not miss them.
Fact is, large cats travel widely in search of territory and females.
The saddest part is the mountain lion was responding to an ad he saw on Craigslist which purported to be from a female mountain lion in Connecticut—but was actually a hoax posted by a bored house cat.
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