Well, I have been away for a while, and yet I see things are still the same. The last time I read this inlighting topic it was pretty much the same thing some people belive and some people are skeptical, who can really say for sure weather or not there are cougars in central NY, I know I can't and I don't belive anyone else can honestly say they aren't. If there are cougars in NY so be it! If there aren't well what difference does it really make, It is possible, just like the moose in the adirondacks, animals migrate, habitat changes, people build, inturn running out the wildlife that once lived there, So who's to say it couldn't happen? I just hope that come sept, oct, I don't run into one while climbing into my tree stand. If cougars live here they live here. No need to get all uptight about it.