ORIGINAL: thesource
Nice link.
You'll notice 1 incident in NY, in 1993.
Perhaps you overlooked the part that said "the lack of claw marks on the back and shoulders could mean that the cat is a declawed animal that has escaped or was released from captivity" and that " a declawed mountain lion was reported as escaped near Lafargeville, ny.."
That is usually the case in these incidents.
If we had wild living, breathing mountain lions in NY .... Why no more evidence since 1993?
Not only that but the leaf covered deer, that is supposed to be a tell-all has to be cougar because no other logical explination can possibly proive us wrong trait....looks to be dead during FALL...last time I checked, fall means leaves come off trees.
And the pictures show little evidence other than proving it was a windy night before the deer was found. Notice that there are no bare spots around the animal that show evidence of leaves being scraped up.