Originally Posted by
DougE
It's possible,just very highly unlikely.We had a moose cross the Pa border from new England one time.Thing is,it was confirmed and someone ended up killing it just over the border in NY
I've hunted out west myself.I've never seen a cat but have seen tracks.The guides I hunted with lived in those areas their entire lives and between 3 of them,only ever saw one.They are secretive.Why is that thousand of sightings are reported in Pa,many of which are black?I'll tell you why,people see what they want to see.They see these cats all the time but never any confirmed sign.
Unless your a biologist working with mountain lions,your observations are no more valid than anyone elses's.I have to respectfully chuckle at what you think you saw.
So the only person on earth who can identify a mountain lion is a dedicated mountain lion biologist? Can you not see the stupidity of that statement? So why are people hunting mountain lions not regularly shooting poodles and coyotes instead and checking them in as mountain lions if we're so dumb? Moron suburbanites claiming to see black cats are one thing. To lump experienced outdoorsmen and biologists who don't specialize in mountain lions into the same group with them is just retarded.
What if there were tracks? Only a trained mountain lion biologist can be trusted to identify mountain lion tracks. Apparently DNA evidence from scat is not good enough for you, which indicates you're not interested in rationally approaching the issue.
Some moron suburbanite may see what they want to see, but I have no dog (cat?) in this fight. For two months, sightings started popping up around me. I thought same as you, moron suburbanites seeing things. No video, nothing in the DNR traps. Then I let my dog out one morning, and the darn thing is relaxing in my backyard just inside the brush, twitching that long, thick, tan tail. After awhile I yelled to the dog to get back before he saw it, and it was up and moving like no dog waving a tail like you see on no bobcat.
I take it you wouldn't believe your own eyes if you saw one, since you are not a trained mountain lion biologist?