I found one big ass paw print this fall. (Jackson county) I don’t know cougar tracks but it sure looked like one big kitty track.
One of the telephone company repair men saw one about a mile further down the dirt road I live on. Scared him to death. I’m in central Alabama. I know every so often my dogs go nuts at night and I can hear the horses snorting and blowing. It’s not the coyotes, they just stomp them.
been seeing tracks for a couple years in barry county.
Perhaps this was sighted in the area?
There was a confirmed cougar sighting up near Glen Arbor when I was there around 5 years ago. From what hunter friends of mine have said, they are rare, but not unheard of.
Might be one of ours. We have an over-large population, that they are finally admitting is growing faster than previously stated. Going to increase the number tags fro the next season; and also maybe rethink the ban on using dogs.
In the last few years, lions with Black Hills radio collars &/or chips have been found as far afield as far eastern SD; as well as in Minnesota, Iowa, and even (!?!) Oklahoma. State Game Fish & Parks admits to those. Who knows where else they haven’t mentioned; or anything at all about untagged ones.
Mainly it’s young males driven out, seeking new territories to colonize, which is why they are moving east & SE. Areas to the north and west or SW all have their own populations.