Up To 8-Foot Long, 160-Pound Mountain Lion On The Loose In Greenwich, Conn.

CBS 2 ^ | June 9, 2011 | Lou Young

[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.

[Daffynition]

That's prolly where they are coming from. You the one toting them down here?

[Darksheare]

That’s one big shoulder cat.
Looks very smug about it too.

Naaah, I’d be dealing in a much smaller breed of cat.

[JoeProBono]

[Daffynition]

I haven't had a ticket in a long, long time...maybe I'm due... don't give me bad luck! ;(

[JoeProBono]

[Daffynition]

I saw what you did there...

[woodbutcher1963]

I can not make the link work.

The Union Leader columnist from Colebrook,NH(way up near the Canadian border)has been writing about Mountain Lion sitings for years. His column this weekenk was all about this CT lion. There have been reports of two lions roaming together in CT and western Mass. However, the fish and game depts. of NH , VT, MA , ME and CT continue to say that they are extinct in New England.

[Daffynition]

This link should work: http://www.ctnow.com/news/hc-fairfield-mountain-lion-0618-20110617,0,5787809.story

Sorry.

You must mean John Harrigan! I love his columns... used to read them regularly.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20110619/OPINION02/706199977

>>William Betty of the Eastern Puma Research Network, who collects cougar reports and evidence and speaks at events, scoffs at this theory. He said there is no doubt that mountain lions are roaming the woods in states all along the Eastern seaboard.

The Times' story quoted several people who had reported extremely good sightings in previous weeks, and now say they feel vindicated. State wildlife officials, meanwhile noted that the nearest confirmed cougar populations are in Missouri and Florida, and said they think there are thousands of cougars in the East being kept as pets.

Area residents, however, were saying what many people with similar experiences in other states — New Hampshire included — have been saying: state and federal wildlife officials are in denial.<<

Here locally, Lieberal Colin McEnroe [whom I despise] had a pretty funny column that included the same notion that Harrigan makes, that the DEP here is in denial.

Those Pesky, Nonexistent Mountain Lions And Tornadoes

[woodbutcher1963]

Yes, John Harrigan.
That old CRS keeps creeping up on me.
His column is the first thing I read every Sunday moring when I read the paper.

[Daffynition]

When the editorials started drifting away from the arch-conservative bent of William & Nackey Loeb ...I frankly lost interest. I shouldn’t have. Thanks for rekindling one of the reasons I loved the UL. :)

[Daffynition]

From today's HC: Evidence Recovered From Greenwich Indicates Canine, Not Mountain Lion

Folks clean-up after your dogs.

[Daffynition]

We got scat. But no cat. ;D

[JoeProBono]

[decimon]

Well, dog my cat.

[Daffynition]

When the cat ate the dog...whadidyathink was gonna happen?

[Daffynition]

DEP: There are no mountain do-lions in Connecticut.

[trisham]

We’ve had bear sightings as of last week in our neighborhood. It’s a concern.

[GladesGuru]

“We’ve had bear sightings as of last week in our neighborhood. It’s a concern.”

When gunpowder speaks, beasts obey.

;-)

[george76]

Just because we can not see the cat-—does not mean that the cat can not see us.

8-)

[Daffynition]

I'm so confused. When I am out in the woods, I don't know whether to look up or down!