O.K. guys... You got me.... That's my 100 lb. Yellow Lab "Moses" at camp.
I guess my point was that sometimes people see what they want to see. The mind somehow takes control of what is actually there, because we wanted to see something other than what is or was there. I feel this is probably the main reason people get shot in turkey season. Someone wanted to see a turkey so badly that they actually thought they did. Maybe kind of ties into the main topic of this post, do you think?
A real quick glance at the camp picture with the tpoic of cougars under discussion, and woah!! There's one!! Just some food for thought.
Thought you might want to see the "cougar" during one of his hunting trips.....into dreamland!!

Beautiful dog!! and I can keep my reputation

Cougardaville

if it took anyone more than 8/10ths of a millisecond to identify the yellow lab in the pictue , well, i just don't know what to say!

tplank,do you really think thats a COUGARr?what is your reason to think it is?maybe i missed someting,not being smart!

the cougars we are seeing have tail that is longer and will reach ground ..tails we are seing are ROUND not flat like dog in that picture..

when cougar runs tail will twist in the air behind cougar..legs are much different than lab..

color is not bad but ones we are seeing are more of ORANGEISH color or some said TAWNY..

thanks for picture but i have to say that is not COUGAR..

How big are thetracks those tawney cats are leaving this winter?Oh,that's right,they don't leave tracks.Just funnin with ya.

everyone i talked to douge, has not seen cougar in winter other than people in LYCOMING CO..they are seeing cougar,they say now..

this is why i threw out the theory that cougars may be leaving our harsh winter areas for better hunting grounds,i dont know..

i dont believe they are WAYBACK as no food is wayback..

almost all our local sighting have been june to dec,but that is also time hunters and fisherman are out..

most were seen in middle of the DIRT roads in remote areas..

there is farmer in hyner,pa.farmed his land for 60 years..he knowswhat a bobcat looks like..he said that cougar came right out in his field while he was plowing,he got good look at it..he reported it to PGC..

these people i trust with my life..when they say it had long tail and big, thats no DOMESTIC PET..

I have a different theoryand thecougars aren't heading south for the winter.Do you honestly believe that could be possible?

Gee, the cougars in other parts of the country, with much more severe weather don't go south.........
Seems they are different in Lycoming County. Bet that would be a good spot to check the "middle of dirt roads" for tracks now that there is snow on. Should be tons of them since reportings are so hot there. I wonder how many of those reporting cougars are out there looking for tracks.....

And are you saying that cougar pets released have different tails than wild cougars?

And the farmer saw a cougar in a freshly plowed field -- how about tracks? Or didn't the cougar step into the plowed part? Maybe they don't like stepping onloose dirt or snow -- yes, that is tongue-in-cheek.

i only offered the leave area thing here in wmu2g,i dont know if that happens..there really is not much to eat here in winter with game scare and less deer..

i agree, pgc should be able to get tracks in LYCOMING CO..

as for farmer, i understand that the pgc DID investigate this farmers property..i will try to see farmer and ask him what they found..