I have heard all of this and talked to some DEC guys who were in checking tags and ages at my brothers deer cutting operation. They kind of laughed at the young men who were blabbing to them about mountain lions. It's easy to tell if you see the tracks in the mud. A mountain lions tracks are bigger than a bobcats tracks, lets just say they are3-1/3 inches across or greater. A bobcats tracks will be between 2 to 2-1/2 inches across, if you see the tracks just pull out some string or whatever you have on youand lay it across the track and mark it and then go get a rule andmeasure it. I know there are bobcats here but I am very skeptical of there being any mountain lions around here. I won't say that it is impossible because we had a good sized alligator in the river here this year that someone had for a pet and let it go or it escaped. Maybe someone had a mountain lion for a pet and let it go or it escaped who knows. But that would be the only way in my opinion that one wouldbe here now.