Mountain Lion tracks found in Du bois PA
01-11-2010, 12:16 PM
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Spike
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Would they of gone out and investigated them tracks though DougE?
How many reports do they get and just brush it off as a dog or bobcat?
Those pictures that was in the first link was as crisp as a bell and you could see they was not a K9 and was a very large cat print compared to the shoe print left for comparison.
How many reports do they get and just brush it off as a dog or bobcat?
Those pictures that was in the first link was as crisp as a bell and you could see they was not a K9 and was a very large cat print compared to the shoe print left for comparison.
01-11-2010, 01:58 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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Would they of gone out and investigated them tracks though DougE?
How many reports do they get and just brush it off as a dog or bobcat?
Those pictures that was in the first link was as crisp as a bell and you could see they was not a K9 and was a very large cat print compared to the shoe print left for comparison.
How many reports do they get and just brush it off as a dog or bobcat?
Those pictures that was in the first link was as crisp as a bell and you could see they was not a K9 and was a very large cat print compared to the shoe print left for comparison.
Those pictures were not crisp as a bell.They showed a large round print,which is indicative of a cat as compared to a canine.What wasn't clear was the actual print of the pad.
01-11-2010, 02:09 PM
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I can guarantee you that this WCO would have went and checked it out,especially since the tracks were less than a mile from his house.I was with a different WCO this past summer when he got a phone call from a state rep's office concerning a phony mountain lion attack that he just checked out.In fact,he went to that call several different times.
Those pictures were not crisp as a bell.They showed a large round print,which is indicative of a cat as compared to a canine.What wasn't clear was the actual print of the pad.
Those pictures were not crisp as a bell.They showed a large round print,which is indicative of a cat as compared to a canine.What wasn't clear was the actual print of the pad.
Then you could see there was no X on the pad to make it a K9.
I should of saved it when it was first posted.
It was crisp to see that it had no X and was round and way to large to be a bobcat. Did you see the size of it compared to the boot print?
It was not a K9.
01-11-2010, 03:00 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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I saw whatever pictures were in the courier express and none where clear enough for me to identify the pad.
Those tracks were about 1/2 mile from my back door.There's 1800 houses in TL.The undeveloped land had 200 hunters all through it this year as well as 4 different logging crews.If there were any large predators roaming around,there would be evidence.Does this elusive cat eat?Where are the rest of the tracks?
Those tracks were about 1/2 mile from my back door.There's 1800 houses in TL.The undeveloped land had 200 hunters all through it this year as well as 4 different logging crews.If there were any large predators roaming around,there would be evidence.Does this elusive cat eat?Where are the rest of the tracks?
01-11-2010, 04:08 PM
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How many pictures was taken? I don't know.
These was not professionals at all. They have no idea about cats and that is for sure from their comments.
But they did get clear photos of the tracks and the size of them.
If you have any idea about K9 tracks and cat tracks you could see from that photo they was not K9s.
K9 tracks are not rounded and you could see that there was no X on the pad.
How many people see a beer every year?
How many hunters even see a bear in PA wilds?
We are not talking about 1000s of bears in PA that very few hunters actually see.
We are talking about a handful of mountain lions.
What are the chances of anyone seeing a beer while out in the woods.
I don't know where that pic went,
But I am sure I can find someone on go Du Bois with a copy of it or even the original person who took the pictures of those tracks.
These was not professionals at all. They have no idea about cats and that is for sure from their comments.
But they did get clear photos of the tracks and the size of them.
If you have any idea about K9 tracks and cat tracks you could see from that photo they was not K9s.
K9 tracks are not rounded and you could see that there was no X on the pad.
How many people see a beer every year?
How many hunters even see a bear in PA wilds?
We are not talking about 1000s of bears in PA that very few hunters actually see.
We are talking about a handful of mountain lions.
What are the chances of anyone seeing a beer while out in the woods.
I don't know where that pic went,
But I am sure I can find someone on go Du Bois with a copy of it or even the original person who took the pictures of those tracks.
01-11-2010, 09:22 PM
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[QUOTE=DougE;3552709]I saw whatever pictures were in the courier express and none where clear enough for me to identify the pad.
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That is why they wasn't clear to you. They was printed out in the paper and you didn't see them here on the net.
The first link I had posted showed the tracks crystal clear on the net and are clear as a bell compared to a black and white non high difinition local news paper.
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That is why they wasn't clear to you. They was printed out in the paper and you didn't see them here on the net.
The first link I had posted showed the tracks crystal clear on the net and are clear as a bell compared to a black and white non high difinition local news paper.
01-12-2010, 04:59 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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Would they of gone out and investigated them tracks though DougE?
Far better story without the risk of what an investigation might have shown - think Amish farmer "attacked" in Lancaster Cty.