Panther, Puma, Cougar, Mountain Lion - What's in a Name? A Cat by any other...One has been spotted and confirmed by game cameras in Bloomingdale this year.
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Panther, Puma, Cougar, Mountain Lion - What's in a Name? A Cat by any other...Texas cats/puma are 7 feet long because of the tail. They are tiny around here.
About 15 yrs ago western Mercer Co. IL was the end of a cougar. Someone had killed it bow hunting but I guess didn’t know that he hit it. Other hunters discovered the rotting cat. I lived maybe 15 or so miles from the site.
From 2004-07, Plank road was my favorite way to and from the northwest suburbs when hauling various grades of bulk golf course sand from Muscatine, IA. Especially liked the Schaumburg and Elgin deliveries..... not very deep into the cities,.... kick off the load and get out of town. Delivering to Golf C. C., in the village of Golf, on Golf Road was farther in. This country boy was always glad to get the big truck out of the big city and unwind westbound on Plank road.
They’re around in Eastern Pennsylvania from time to time. I’ve seen one (1969), and seen tracks of another (2008). Absolutely unmistakable. My neighbor saw the 2008 one, it ran in to him escaping the guy’s shed.
Full disclosure: I think I saw a mountain troll down in the Philadelphia Reading Terminal in the mid 70’s. He had the proportions of a dwarf, but he was way over six feet tall — he must have weighed 500lb. No one else in the crowd seemed to notice him. He was dressed like a person. That’s pretty much the only thing I remember from the 70’s.
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