OK, I didn't want to do this,BUT!!! I live on the border between VT and NY and just the other night when I was leaving my ground blind, guess what I saw??? Am I 100% sure? I don't know what else it could be.
It was light enough to see quite clearly. As I stepped less than 5 yards from my blind I caught movement in a clear cut not 35 yards ahead of me. What caught my attention was the way this animal moved. It didn't jump, it didn't run, it loped. This animal was within 30 yards. It hunkered down and quickly realized I was something out of the ordinary and took a quick bound into the woods and was gone.
Now look, I'm not some idiot that doesn't know the difference between a bob cat and a mountain lion. I have seen plenty of bob cats. Last year a well seasoned friend and hunter saw a mtn.lion during the day. Not far from here last year a farmer lost a few calves that were left with large gashes which he flatly states were not caused by coyotes. His hired hand said he saw a mtn.lion. When they called the powers to be and explained the sightening, the remarks are always the same. " They don't live around here", or " Do you have any concrete proof?"
Do I have pictures of this animal? No!!!. But, I know what I saw.