[BwanaNdege]

My wife saw one cross our road in front of her car about 10 years ago. We live in the mountains of Western NC. She described it to me and I said "That sounds like a mountain lion!"

Several years later she made her first visit to the Bass Pro Shops near Atlanta. As we walked into the store there was a display of various stuffed animals. "That's what I saw!", she exclaimed, pointing at a stuffed mountain lion.

We lived in East Africa for a number of years, so she is used to spotting & identifying large animals, and distinguishing a leopard from a cheetah, or a Thompson's gazelle from a Grant's.

[Lynne]

My hubby and I saw one in the Myrtle Beach, SC area, about 3 miles inland, when we first moved there about 2 years ago. It was running across the field and ran right across the highway in front of our truck and kept on going into the woods. I had a pretty long time watching it run, and I'm convinced it was a cougar. So is the husband, who's a hunter.