[MrNationalist]

The link has a video of the UBC[Unknown Big Cat]. The video starts off very shaky, and about 1:15 into the video you can clearly see the details of a very large feline.

[paul51]

Hard to judge the size without some sort of reference in the video however I'm pretty sure that's not the neighbors tabby.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Jaguar.

[kinoxi]

Odd to say the least. It leapt like a cat.

[Tenacious 1]

Just to be clear...It is a LARGE cat.

Here kitty, kitty, kitty. Here kitty. Nice kitty. How about some milk?

This "cat" is not starving. Lock up your chickens, dogs, children and drunk husbands, or else lose them to the neighborhood kitty.

[dighton]

... one of the video sightings is very shaky.

As well it might be.

[Redcitizen]

Wow! Now there is a Viking Kitty.

[mewzilla]

[EBH]

Looks like a very large healthy big cat. When it leaps you can see a white underbelly... cougar is my guess.

[Abathar]

If I caught it going after my pets and shoot it, will I go to jail if it's endangered? I always wondered about that...

[BJClinton]

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

It's a man in a cat suit. Just like that fake Bigfoot film clip!

[proudofthesouth]

From what I could see I bet its a coyote.

[Alas Babylon!]

They need to take the video taker back to the same spot they taped it at. Have another person or persons stand in the field at approximately the place the cat was filmed. Film the person. Have them walk around the area until one can match up the same area the cat was in.

From this, we can determine it's size. Whatever the size of cat it is, it's well fed. It appears fairly bulky.

It is a proven fact that the cougar is making a comeback throughout its historical range (which is pretty much ALL of North and South America). That one would be in Indiana, before, say, Rhode Island, is perfectly understandable. But even Rhode Island has plenty of thick woods and deer, otherwise known as cougar country. Today cougars are not hunted or disturbed in almost all areas that they were wiped out from. The only places they're still hunted is where they have never been eradicated. So it makes sense that some would wander into the previously eradicated areas and then thrive.

[Red Badger]

[cspackler]

I saw a cougar in the back of the field at my in-laws farm here in Iowa about 3 weeks ago. I didn't believe it until I talked to a farmer down the road last weekend. He claims some other locals shot a cougar earlier this year.

Funny part is, it had a locator collar on it. Another local claims that he lost a calf, and later found the remains. In a tree...

Rumor is that the Iowa DNR is bringing them in to control the deer population and not telling anyone. Makes sense to me, I never figured out how a cat could cross either the Missouri or Mississippi river that border the state to get here......

[Beagle8U]

There have been dozens of cougar sightings in southern MI. ( near Indiana line) the past 5 years or so. Even mothers with cubs have been sighted.

Some in the DNR have admitted that there is little doubt that there is a breeding population.

[razorback-bert]

I thought I saw a putty tat.

[mollynme]

As the great poet Ogden Nash once wrote:

If called by a panther
Don't anther

[Dr. Marten]

It's a Jackalope.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The animal could have been someone's escaped pet.

Huh. The DNR said the same thing in Michigan a couple of years back. They just "knew" that there were no big cats in Michigan.

After a farmer paid for an autopsy of his dead horse, (cause of death, mountain lion) they were finally after twenty years of sightings to admit that there were indeed cougar's in Michigan but that, in contrary to everything we know about the wild, the cougars were practicing birth control because they were sure there were no breeding big cats in Michigan.

BTW They also said that you may not shoot the cougar, after all they are an endangered species in this area.