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Old 01-15-2006 | 10:17 PM
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TC209x50
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Default Possible Cougar in Ohio?

All, I'm asking this question because I'm thinking maybe I'm nuts. Back in the spring my neighbor calls me who raise's fighting chickens and asked If I'd been hearing this wildcat at night. She said it had been rippen the chickens right off their steel ties. At the time I had'nt until about 3 weeks later when my dogs awoke me barking their heads off.What I heard didn't sound like a woman scream as what I've been told by countless others of what a wildcat sounds like. Later in the summer I heard the same animal this time it was closer and I heard it make its sound maybe 5-10 times and it was probably within 60-80 yrds. It was very loud so it may have been closer. It sounded identical to cougar or Mt.Lion that you'd hear on TV or some wave file on the net. Is this possible in SE ohio? I've been a hunter all my life and still have yet to see or hear a wildcat but whatI heard on numerous occations didn't at all sound like what I've been told they would. We are located in Meigs Co. which is in the foothills of the Applachian Mt's. A'm I going nuts or was it just a wildcat?
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