Mountain Lion sighting

**wanneroo** · January 1st, 2015, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by Manxdriver

Pa is literally crawling with rattlesnakes, yet, how many have seen one? I show people pics of one that almost bit me last year, multiple pics, on my I-phone, and they think I took them off the web. So, if we have all these snakes and people don't believe we do, how would you ever prove/disprove a big cat?

California has mountain lions, EVERYONE knows that. Yet, 99.99999999% will NEVER see one, wouldn't know one if they did catch a glimpse, would find a paw print and swear it was a bear or coyote, and will tell you there aren't any.

Does Pa have big cats? Yes, I believe we do. And so does BigFoot, he told me so!!!

I think it's well known PA has rattlesnakes. We even have a rattlesnake roundup in Morris, PA near here. They like to sun themselves on the Pine Creek Gorge rails to trails which makes for a surprise sometimes for bikers and hikers.

**God's Country** · January 1st, 2015, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by wanneroo

No dead kills of deer by cougars either. For all the trail cams and cell phone cams and millions of people in the woods in this state, nothing.

Waiting for it. Someone is going to post something here. I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.

**Emptymag** · January 1st, 2015, 02:12 PM

I've seen more evidence that ghosts are real.

Of course that was on the Science FICTION channel, so...

**twency** · January 1st, 2015, 02:19 PM

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**God's Country** · January 1st, 2015, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by twency

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DOH!

**GrumpyBear** · January 1st, 2015, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by twency

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That's kind of what I thought when I read the original post.

Owe you some rep.

**streaker69** · January 1st, 2015, 03:47 PM

Originally Posted by twency

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Except it's not.

**Ronin** · January 1st, 2015, 05:06 PM

I've seen nine mountain lions in PA in my lifetime. None in the wild, however...

There was one at the Philadelphia Zoo named Hercules. It died many years ago.

There are two at Zoo America in Hershey.

There were three at the Elmwood Park Zoo near Norristown. I gave the zoo a donation and in return they let my wife be a zookeeper for a day one year for her birthday. She has actually held (and fed) cougar cubs.

A guy my dad used to shoot with when I was a kid had three in cages that he and his wife nursed back to health. I believe they turned them over to other zoos. They were definitely not pets, nor were they released into the wild.

So yes, there are mountain lions in PA, and they're not that hard to find.

**twency** · January 2nd, 2015, 01:12 AM

Originally Posted by streaker69

Except it's not.

I figured it wasn't quite outrageous or implausible enough to be him, but the the resulting thread does have a certain flavor of some of his infamous work.

Mostly I couldn't resist the temptation to try to come up with a vaguely relevant acrostic.

**ungawa** · January 2nd, 2015, 04:01 AM

Originally Posted by wanneroo

To double down on what you said, Florida is a great example. Not many roads run through the Everglades, yet almost 10% of the cougar population gets creamed by cars every year. The cats are also fairly easy to keep track of. Here in PA we've got roads running every which way all over the state, no road kill. No dead kills of deer by cougars either. For all the trail cams and cell phone cams and millions of people in the woods in this state, nothing.

The cougars in FL are mostly geriatric and can't see or hear very well. That's why they get hit by cars