i dont see how after watching that video anyone can say it was or was not a cougar.
\Agreed. But... That camera was 2 miles away. and that appears to be a cut hay field, which at the end of October the hay would be high enough to mostly conceal a house cat. I would love to hear what the agent who glassed it had to say. I am not one of those that thinks there is a mysterious nearly invisible population of big cats in NY, but the Northway isn't far away, and if you were a Westchester County resident who found that cute little kitten you bought is now sizing up the kids for an afternoon snack, maybe a quick run up the Northway to the boonies seems like a reasonable solution.