Rack, I would say that there is a Lion. Also, I learned a long time ago, Just because the DNR denies something. Doesn't make it so. I told the DNR agent in Grand Rapids for many years that there was a Lion in the Hill City area, as well as Wolves. They denied it, until someone caught it on camera one night.
I am going to go with Moutain lion. The stride just looks to long to be a bobcat. An, the coloration does not vary any on the side of the cat like a bobcat would.
Looks like a mountain Lion to me. Glad you are in the North, and not down here by the Iowa border. I think I would have someone frome the state look at it too.
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Looks like a mountain Lion to me. Glad you are in the North, and not down here by the Iowa border. I think I would have someone frome the state look at it too.
Just because you do not see any mountain lions does not mean they are not in the area. Even when they are around, seeing one is not common. They have monitored mountain lions with GPS tracking devices going several miles into cities at night without any calls of a mountain lion being spotted.
That's a medium size mountain lion. Two winters ago, a lion was witnessed from just west of Eau Claire (somewhere in MN) to central WI. Took about a month to go 300 miles. People pieced together the sightings and tracks.
Last fall, one was seen and tracks verified in Washington County, which is 50 miles from Milwaukee. And YES, the DNR denied it. They said it had to be a domestic cat cuz bobcats aren't that far south either... in the middle of a corn field... with a 3 foot tail.... with a print the size of a large dog
Minnesota Bobcat or Mountain Lion
