cougars in ny
 

hate to start a war but in allegany county there has been two cougar attacks on horses that killed one the other is in bad shape I have heard that the dec has set up traps for them

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You have a news articleto verify this story or a picture of these Cougars?

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Somebody actually mentioned this to me the other day in a bar (always the most reliable stories come out of bars, I know) in southern NY. My brother about 2 years back swears that he saw a cougar while turkey hunting in the catskills. Everyone he has told it to has laughed him out of the room, but I actually believe him. Is the DEC finally admitting that there might be some cougars in NY?

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hmmm hmmm hmmm ...............i love this board!

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charlie no article just a friend who knows the owners of the horses personally I thought he was bsing me but no he was serious

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here we go again :D:D

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Its entirely possible. I won't rule out the possibility. People can laugh all they want. I also would like cold hard truth of this as well, but if we do have them in the northeast, it wouldn't suprise me.

Actually my father claimed to have seen one sunning himself on a laydown a few years back on Beach Creek mountain here in PA. He is definitely not one to lie about anything so his story may hold truth. He just said he can't exactly say for sure it was a mountain lion, but he doesn't know what else in PA that looks like that. He said it leaped off the tree and disapeared into the laurel shortly after he stopped to have a better look.

I can tell ya one thing. If in fact we do have them in the Northeast and we end up with enough of them that they aren't too rare to see, I'll be packin heat come archery season along with the bow. They are nasty critters and have been known to stalk people without you ever knowing they were there. I'm not a cat fan and don't care to have any of them in my home state.

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My coworker lives in Wayne County and said that his neighbor hit a cougar last year with his truck and put it in the back to show his kids. About an hour after getting home, a DEC officer pulled in the driveway and told him he came for the body. I'm guessing they had it tagged and tracked a sudden increase in speed and/or distance and might have thought someone poached it. I don't really know the guy, so I can't say if this is real or not.

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Sorry to hear about the horses, but I have been researching these cougars for a year, started with a killed a fed upon horse, in Albany county area, we are getting tons of sighting reports, and a BIG Laugh from DEC. They are here!!

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actually it is when the heart stops, the tracking device, sends flatline, then gbs finds the animal.......did he get a picture??

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NO!! they like to call them fishers.........or labs.......or bob cats.....or

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no offense art but I 've never heard of a bobcat killing a horse

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we had a horse attacked by a cougar last year............. till they discovered it got tangled in a barbed wire fence, explaining the "claw marks" on it's neck.;).... these stories seem to have a way of growing in infamy, but hey, stranger things have happened

flame away
-moose

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I live in ALLEGANY county.
Have not heard of 2 horses killed.
I know the editor of the wellsville paper well & he is a hard core news person also hard core hunter and he heard nothing & belive me if any horses got killed by a cougar he would run the storey no matter what.

Wev'e have had a number of sitings but when followed up to date nothing.

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it could be true here in massachusetts 2 bobcat or cougar sighting in rochester masachusetts,several people seen the big cat big article about it in the paper and evrything you never know i guess.i know when i lived down south(florida) they sell them down there could have been pets at one time? the adapt to our weather very well.