ORIGINAL: patrkyhntr
Some people I know who should know a mountain lion when they see one claim to have seen one in Franklin County. I am not calling them liars. I've said this before and I will say it again. With so many trigger-happy idiots calling themselves hunters, if there was one mountain lion in this state it would be a dead one. Also, we kill twenty thousand deer with cars on our roads. Why hasn't a mountain lion been hit? Show me a dead mountain lion and all of my doubts will disappear.
The odds of one getting killed by a car AND recovered is miniscule if there only a handful in the entire state. Add to that the odds of someone hitting it and then stopping to get out and leave the road to find it. The odds, my friend, is that if one was hit, the driver would keep on going. Only if the cat was laying in the road would it be recovered.