Rare Mountain Lion

muffin57 · Post by **muffin57** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 6:55 pm

This mountain lion was discovered down the Boreal Road not far from where I live. I took pictures last winter of tracks in the snow in our yard that we believed to be of a cougar. When we showed the pictures to a friend he informed us that there was one seen around here. This was in broad daylight this cougar walked through here. Scary! We have enough predators without them too!

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/ ... rio/80768/

ross · Post by **ross** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 9:55 pm

Yep saw this on a Outdoor Forum I'm on . One less predator for you . Lousy way to die but looks like they'll use what's left for educational purposes . Now the MNR has to admit they are there . Rumour has it that MNR introduced um back in Ont years ago to control coyotes /wolfs . But u know rumours that's what the www lives on . Luck

labradors · Post by **labradors** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 10:36 am

We had one around here a few years ago. It was spotted on a neighbour's deck so they got a good look at it. They live down the road, close to the water. They thought it was a Cougar. Of course MNR denied that it could have been one. Another neighbor heard a cat-like growl one morning, and my lab became petrified of something she heard or smelled in the woods and turned into a shivering mess. Of course the latter is hear-say and suspicion, but I do believe that my neighbours saw one.

Skinny rooster · Post by **Skinny rooster** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 1:54 pm

I am such a skeptic, basically it starved to death and this makes me wonder. I have heard that some people are secretly keeping these as pets but unfortunately they get away and the owners never say a word because they would be responsible if it killed livestock or much much worse, a child. Proof is a couple of years ago a guy in my area was secretly keeping a lion, we found out because it got out and ran away, to this day people have nearly been eaten... no wait I'm kidding, they safely caught it a few days later, it was still fairly young, just adding excitement lol. Last year however my friend had two cows killed and he is a serious kind of guy, he is also very much into hunting and stuff, he said they were killed in a way that a cougar would do and not like wolves would do.

I do remember my dad telling me that when he started farming, he had full grown steers killed on pasture one year. They were clawed to death not like a wolf would do, he got a hunter to watch and it was a bear. After the guy shot the bear it never happened again.

tcamp · Post by **tcamp** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 5:41 pm

I had a friend who had a cougar...and I defended his right to having it when the town decided he had to get rid of it. When I finally did go visit and see it, it was quite the rude awakening...these things cannot be tamed, they are not house pets.
The odd cougar has been seen here, in the wild. They do exist in the wild as well.
On another note, in my area we have black panthers...and I had one cross the road in front of me a couple of year back, so I know for a fact they do indeed live in my area.

Now it's those big foots I want to see proven :P Then I would be a little scared!

windwalkingwolf · Post by **windwalkingwolf** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 5:49 pm

I don't think they are as rare as the MNR pencil pushers would have you believe, just elusive. I think they just want to avoid mobs with pitchforks and torches lol. MNR denies our area has bobcats, so everytime we see one we call it a "not a bobcat" lol. So that above is a "not a cougar" and no doubt is a one-in-a-million and probably escaped from a zoo transport *rolls eyes*

Post by **Killerbunny** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 6:21 pm

Oh yes Jan, we saw our "not a bobcat" again the other day. Very pleased! They keep the chipmunks down.

labradors · Post by **labradors** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 6:36 pm

Please send the not-a-bobcat out this way. The chippies are driving us NUTS!!!!!!

Happy · Post by **Happy** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 6:52 pm

I saw the butt end of a "not-a-bobcat" here a few years ago. My headlights followed his bum across the road as I navigated a curve. Prior to that I had only heard him a couple of times. Middle of the night noise like someone was torturing a newborn baby. Horrible spine chilling sound! I went out to see what had been hit on the road and hear him run through the corn field at a speed that certainly wasn't an injured animal!

Skinny rooster · Post by **Skinny rooster** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 10:48 pm

Bobcats have always been around here, more now than ever because people stopped killing them. People don't need to be in a panic over them they are not that powerful, unless you have lambs or free range poultry. I heard they and fishers are the only thing that prey on porcupines.