More mountain lion sightings

[Canoe_Junkie]

These encounters seem to pop up every few years don't they:

http://www.newstin.com/rel/us/en-010-021096362

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FOTgktCeBU

[DeepXplor]

Over the years there have always been sightings. If someone doesn't have a verified picture, a captured animal, or a carcass then I am sceptical. I guess that I just need something a little more tangible then a possible sighting.

[Canoe_Junkie]

Yeah, like I said these seem to pop up every few years. The last time I recall was about three or so years ago and there were enough witnesses, tracks and scat that an elementary school was shut down.

[gipsie]

You can all laugh but a friend and I were driving down one f the roads into Millville (can't remember which one now) and we saw two animals run across the road. Slightly larger than a large dog and much smaller than a dear. Looked like a large cat. He swears they were cougar and I am not willing to agree to that, because I didn't get a great look at them. But I will not rule it out. We did pull over and run to the edge of the road to see if we could get a glimpse of them, but they moved pretty quick. They definitely did not remind me of any of the normal animals you see running around the pines.

But who knows.

[46er]

Take a read, they have the same problem in NY, but the common sense explanations make more sense than the alledged sightings.

http://www.pressrepublican.com/0105_...yword=topstory

[lakesgirl]

you can laugh at us also....two summers ago while taking a short cut through wharton to Chatsworth a cat about the size of our akita ran across the road in front of us. It kept it's eyes on the two deer in the road up ahead. it was an awesome experience! Foot prints on the side of the road were about softball size. I'd say it was bout 100 - 125 lbs. Just wish the camera was not behind the seatof the truck.

[gipsie]

I am not too sure by reading that article (but then again, I only scanned it) where in NY it was supposed to be. I worked in NYC in the 1st precinct, but lived upstate a little bit and grew up there. The Catskills were my home away from home. There were ABSOLUTELY, no doubt, no argument, cougars in those mountains. We have seen and heard them for years!

[46er]

I am not too sure by reading that article (but then again, I only scanned it) where in NY it was supposed to be. I worked in NYC in the 1st precinct, but lived upstate a little bit and grew up there. The Catskills were my home away from home. There were ABSOLUTELY, no doubt, no argument, cougars in those mountains. We have seen and heard them for years!

I had a place about 1 hr south of the border, in the Adirondacks. There was one kill by a cat in a town close by that was confirmed cougar, but not a wild one. It is shown on the site at the link. My brother has lived in the northern Catskills for the past 20 years, works for the state. Doesn't believe there are any wild cats, just pets turned loose. Same goes for wolf sightings. Lots of Bobcats though. The organization at the link is probably the most reliable that I have found. Read the entire original article, the guy knows his stuff.

http://www.easterncougarnet.org/bigpicture.html

[skip3]

ya mean one of these

[Canoe_Junkie]

ya mean one of these

Where was this photo taken?

[46er]

Where was this photo taken?

Looks like its been dragging that deer all over the country

http://forum.gon.com/showthread.php?p=4058370

[skip3]

well it was supposed to have been taken on the King ranch. But I guess I better check with a friend who's a guide out there. I think that pic has gotten around more than a few girls i know. My boss used to have a girl who was working on her masters at the university go to his ranch to trap and study cougars, never met her but she had to be more man than me cause the first time I saw one it scared the crap out of me and I was 75 yds away and had a 30-06

[Aaron]

I know Cumberland county has Bobcats, Cougars in New Jersey would shock me. I did however see a Lemur run in front of my car last summer, I was about 5 miles from the Cape May Zoo, it was obviously an escaped animal.

[manumuskin]

me and my cousin saw a cougar on the mullica in 78 when i was 14.it was in a tree in the savannahs in early spring and when we spotted it as we approached it jumped out of the tree and splashed across the savannah onto the left high ground(heading downstream).it was about 5 ft long with a long tail and beige.it was about 10 ft up in a tree and had it's rear end on a higher limb then it's front end.I know my critters and i don't need a college degree to be able to properly identify a large American mammal as some biologists would have us believe.The barrens are big enough and thick enough and cats are just slick enough to avoid detection for years.how many of you have ever seen a weasel or a mink?we have em but in all my yars I've seen one weasel(not counting tracks in snow) and have never seen a mink.i have seen maybe half a dozen otter in nj and onl 2 beaver in daylight.saw several more kayaking in the dark (full moon).
I have had a lot of disbelief about this over the years but I know what we saw.
Al

[bobpbx]

Al, I did see a mink behind Bamber on the Chamberlin Branch about 10 years ago. My dog treed him. Never saw a weasel or any kind of large cat.