Sure looks like it to me.
Cats
Saw a photo of a road kill mountain lion in the county west of Nashville about a year ago.
CATS...The Broadway play that would never leave, or so it seemed 20 something years ago. Extremely popular. I never saw it.
Well so much for the Mississippi River stopping the cats migrating East
Nashville Cats?
I’d like to see the other pictures they have. The photo used in the video is not a Mountain Lion, just a house cat. We don’t have allot of big cats in this area but we have had a few, shot one a few years back. That makes 3 we’ve taken in the last 20 years.
In Tennessee, wouldn’t it be a catamount?
TWRA has finally admitted that yes, there are mountain lions in Tennessee again.
I have lived in Shelby County, Tennessee all of my life and have watched the animal population changing from the 1960s until now.
What we have now that I never saw back then:
- Lots of deer all over the place - even in suburban areas.
- Armadillos
- Coyotes
- Fire ants
- Bears? Mountain Lions? (may be on the way)
What I used to see, but hardly ever see any more:
- Rabbits
Where did all the bunnies go? Long time passing...
Global warming, therefore we can blame Trump?
The state wildlife agencies never seem to want to admit certain animals are present.
There have been mountain lion sightings in Ohio for years and they still won’t admit it here. One ran across the road in front of my car in the early 90’s in Indian Hill - a wooded Cincinnati suburb. Some friends in Blanchester, OH outside of Cincinnati have a pair that wanders around their property every so often and seen by many people in the county. I’ve read and heard of many other sightings.
They’d rather say each sighting is an “escaped exotic animal” than admit that they are here.
There are enough rural and wooded areas in Ohio for cougars to exist and rarely or never be seen. 30 years ago coyotes and black bears were unheard of and now coyotes are everywhere and black bear sightings are on the rise. As the cougar population increases I’m sure they will have eventually admit they exist here.
Ten or 12 years ago we had a cougar around here in Williamson Co. We heard it one night (the only thing that has scared me living here for 30 years) our neighbor saw it and my g-kids saw it watching them from the woods. They thought they were seeing a big st. Bernard and were describing it to me. When they said big thick tail I knew what it was. We called TWRA and they wouldn’t even return our call.
Since then a hunter friend who hunts near us has also seen the cat, and its footprints. We live next to the Natchez Trace, so there is lots of happy space for him to occupy.