Iwanicki said cougars could travel long distances easily.“These cats could be in Wisconsin by tomorrow or Iowa by the weekend, depending on which direction they’re traveling,” she said.
Probably heading for Denver, they heard there's a rat convention
They’re take care of the stray house cat and dog problem.
They’re take care of the stray house cat and dog problem.
A few years ago, the Nebraska Game and Parks Department denied that there had been any cougars in the state since the times of Lewis and Clark.
Until one day the Omaha paper published a three page article on the return of the cougar, with pictures, and a few statements from non government experts that yes they really were there.
I live on the IA/IL border right now, and we have cougars here in Scott county on occasion. Heck, two years ago a guy shot one during bow season on the IL side of the river.
“Stacy Iwanicki, a naturalist with the Volo Bog State Natural Area, said that cougars tended to be secretive animals that stay away from people, but that they should never be approached.
Back off and give them space, she said.”
Very nice Stacy Naturalist. Noe go do up your hair and take care of your nail polish.
Cougars are expanding their ranges southwards and eastwards to follow the growing herds of deer. Soon they will join the black bears and “Coyotes”(really wolf/coyote hybrids) as an even more dangerous re-addition to our eastern fauna.
and thanks to Naturalists like Stacy and the Peta and anti-hunting crowd, they will soon be feasting on humans, dogs, cats, and domestic animals east of the Mississippi.
I’v been on that road.
Used to be farmland, until parts of it were developed into housing tacts, and others were kept as “natural” habitat by the wealthy who came out from Chicago and froze up all the zoning in the area. Bull Valley is an incorporated village north of Crystal Lake where the deed restrictions do not ALLOW smaller lots than about ten acres or so.
Lots of game cover there.
We have cougars here in SE Michigan. Someone videotaped a pair walking along a tree line within 10 miles of my house and there have been a few sightings within 5 miles of here. Lots of wolves in the upper Pennisula...I wonder when they’ll show up down here....
S.S.S.
cougars where they aren’t supposed to be ping.
That would be the last thing I would do. My first instinct is to draw my weapon.
The big cats have been protected for too long...
Here in Kalifornicate - we’ve had a number of serious and fatal attacks against the unsuspecting jogger, biker and hiker by cougars....
In my RESIDENTIAL and very URBAN neighborhood in the foothills of San Jose/Los Gatos we had two mature cougars within two blocks of my home. One in a tree above a sidewalk to the local school.
Check this out!
Make sure it wasn’t a Great Dane:
http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080820/BREAKING01/80820035
If they come to WI the DNR will grant them “protected species status”—bet on it. As they say upnort’, “all a da loons aint on da lake”.
Especially if they hitch hike.
Here kitty, here kitty, cougar story.