Texas wildlife officials denied for years that there were mountain lions in the suburban DFW area. Then one of the big cats managed to get itself killed. And the wildlife officials got strangely quiet on the issue.
After all, the old nickname for Fort Worth used to be “Pantherville”.
Tennessee wildlife is the same way. We had 3 sightings in our area, by us and a neighbor. Crickets. A hunter friend of ours tells us he regularly sees their tracks in our area..
Outside of the Florida panther I’ve always thought the big cats were only located in the far West states. Pretty wild if they’ve made it to the East coast now. Upstate NY has a huge number of forested areas where a mountain lion could live undetected. Just one more thing to worry about when camping. I sure hope the grizzle’s don’t migrate this way, black bears are enough lol.
That really doesn't have anything to do with real cats. Someone derisively said Fort Worth is so dull panthers sleep on the courthouse steps.