There could be.
I am positive I saw one in the south western high hilly area of very rural NY State, north and east of that area in Michigan.
Few believe me—they say I saw a feral cat...but no way was that a feral cat I saw.
Too big and too long and too furry.
But it’s so easy to mistake the two. A feral cat weighs what? Ten pounds? And a cougar weights up to 250, averaging about 160.
I often mistake things that differ in size by a few thousand percent. Just the other day I mistook a roller skate for an 18-wheeler.
By the way, does everybody else know who all those women are without a caption? Cause I only recognized a couple of them.
They’re everywhere on the east coast.
The DNR brought them here and then virulently denied there were any.
[much like the non-existent black bears which sack and pillage our property]
Years ago, up on Sideling Hill, a bowhunter felt himself being “watched” only to turn around and see a cougar perched in a tree above him, ready to pounce.
No one believed him.
The DNR continued their denials in *spite* of the posters in store windows all around the area reminding us dumb hicks we’d be fined $10,000 for shooting the cougars that weren’t here and offering a 24/7 “Cougar sighting hot line” number to call in case we saw one of the non-existent beasts.
I’m fairly certain that the liberal-run DNR thinks we’re all borderline retarded.
I doubt I need to say what’s going to happen should one of these “Schrodinger’s Cats” kill anybody’s live stock or spook a deer hunter.