Good evening. Unapproved use by "Neville" of a message related to mtn lions in PA that I sent to outdoor writer and radio host Jim Slinsky outside of HuntingNet and many months ago has caused some confusion. While I am flattered that Neville felt the material was worthwhile to reproduce and share with this Forum, I regret the message was not more clearly characterized by him at the time. Please also note that I erred in that message, mistakenly assuming Jim Slinsky had written about a particular case with which I was familiar involving a sighting report of a purported cougar killing a deer in PA. He did write in one of his newspaper columns about a sighting report, but it was not the same oneI thought it was.In later messages he and I clarified things. The case I knew of---and referred to in the Neville message that appeared in this string above---actually involved a state employee who watched what he felt was a mtn lion attack and kill a smallwhitetail buck. However, evidence at the scene, includingmatching the canine teeth (fangs) of a male bobcat skull with the puncture marks on the deer's neck, as well as documentation of bobcat tracks in the area of the attack, incriminated a bobcat.
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Dr. Jay Tischendorf DVM
Great Falls, Montana USA
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