Maybe a domestic Mountain Lion that was taken as a cub,but highly doubt the sightings,like you said Fulla Shit !
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I was scouting the Saturday before opening day of deer rifle season up in Rome, PA about 15 years ago. My co-worker and I didn't get but 25 yards from the road when we saw a German Shepherd sized cat stand up and slowly walk off in the other direction. It was about 50 yds away so we both saw it very clearly. Neither of us saw its face but it had a long tail and you could make out its shoulder blades moving up and down as it walked. It was overcast and late in the afternoon so everything had a dull grey look to it but it looked like it was tan in color, slightly lighter than that of a whitetail.
We went over to where we saw it and couldn't find any tracks because of all the oak leaves on the ground. I wouldn't swear on a stack of bibles that we saw a cougar, but I'm pretty sure that's what it was. Bobcats just don't get that big.
For the longest time Nebraska denied having mountain lions, despite all of the game cam pics being sent in. January 1st of this year guess what they had, opening day of their first mountain lion season.
I've never seen one in PA or CT.
http://content.usatoday.com/communit...south-dakota/1
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OP: I have a place near Hyner Mtn view and familiar with the area. Seems like everyone has trail cams out there. I simply can't believe it until I see a pic or some other sign out there. There were a few snowfalls up there during archery, bear and deer. If there's a cougar out there I can't believe no has found tracks nor gotten a pic.
Well, Flick says he saw some grizzly bears near Pulaski's candy store.
I have to agree here. If there really were cougars in PA a dead one would have turned up by now. There has to be so many to be a viable breeding population - I think I recall our resident WCO posting that it's around 50 animals. If they were really here, there would be at least 1 roadkill.
So far in 2014, 20 have been killed on FL roads - 10 in the past 12 years on just one stretch of highway - with an estimated population of 100 - 160 cats.
http://www.defenders.org/florida-pan...r-deaths-roads
This site documents deaths, litters and depredations - and has CLEAR pictures.
http://www.floridapanthernet.org/ind...se/#.VKLWTsBE4
Bill
Cougars love to eat coyotes. I've tracked them several times in Colorado.
The big cats are here and there is at least one here on the western side of the state. People used to say there were no coyotes not so long ago.......
Lycannodoubtthrope
With having a large population of outdoorsman here in PA, all the trail cams, all the hunting going on, etc, it would seem strange that for all the cougar stories people tell, where is proof?
Up here in Tioga County just about everyone I know has a cougar story including some wild stories about black panthers eating people decades ago(black cougars don't exist, never have). Yet for all the trail cams, all the people outdoors, all the cell phone cameras, no one has dragged up a road kill, a kill by the cougars, paw prints, anything.