ORIGINAL: sproulman
there was a cougar shot in chicago,ill.
they had blood from femalecougar , i believe in south dakota.
they took blood from cougar killed in chicago and it MATCHED.
SO, THEY FIGURE THAT THIS cougar COVERED over 930 miles in 9 months to chicago.
this may answer why we see cougar in so many places here in pa ,they may be passing thru.
i think if COUGAR stayed in area, we would have more pictures and sighting in certain area.
i believe now, they are on move always from state to state.
This was a young male cougar from the Dakota's. He was spotted by a farmer in Wisconsin and the cougar cut his foot on a piece of sheet metal. When the cops unloaded on the thing, (which is beyond me why they did) the blood from Wisconsin matched that of this cougar. He was just looking for new territory and got stuck in Chicago and was trying his hardest to find a way out. I feel the same way everytime I have to go visit the arm pit of America. IL. has produced three dead bodies of wild cougars in 5 yrs. It would not suprise me at all to see a small breeding population of cats in Souther IL in my lifetime.