Posted on 08/18/2010 5:07:10 PM PDT by SJackson
Remember that cougar that kept popping up in Twin Cities suburbs last winter, and then crossed the St. Croix and vanished into Wisconsin? Turns out the big cat went on a walkabout hundreds of miles long in Wisconsin looking for a mate.
Wisconsin DNR trackers started keeping tabs on the animal by examining tracks, droppings and DNA evidence, and found it covered an awful lot of ground -- check out this map at the PiPress.
At one point it came pretty close to the American Birkebiner cross country ski race, but evidently didn't have a taste for skinny humans sheathed in Lycra.
"These cats are covering a lot of distance in a short amount of time," Minnesota DNR predator expert Dan Stark told the PiPress. "That leads us to believe that these are dispersing animals coming from the west and they are on the move in search of females. They will stay in a location for a while if there is prey, but unless they find a mate, they will keep roaming."
The six-feet-long beast was first spotted by two Champlin cops coming off the night shift last December as it crossed Highway 169. A dashboard camera in the officers' car captured the cougar as it appeared in their squad car's headlights before wandering down into the woods along the Mississippi River.
Then it was spotted in Vadnais Heights, near the Interstate 35E/694 junction, about 10 miles from downtown St. Paul. A few weeks later, Stillwater police said they found cougar tracks in different places around town after taking two separate calls from residents.
Wisconsin DNR experts picked up the trail from there.
Something light. I'm tired of Democrats and Mosques.
I thought this was about courtney cox.
Oh, and Courtney needs some meat back on her bones. I pick Kristin Davis
The cougar coddling crowd will continue to not respond to cougars around people until someone is mauled in a manner most beastly, killed, and possibly eaten. Even then, they will lie and claim “It IS an endangered animal when they know the DNA work showed way back in April of 2000 that all such cats in North America are the same sub-species.
What is in danger is the cash flow to those government trough feeders who make a living creating a de facto risk to public health and safety by creating a population of cats our ancestors killed off for good reasons.
As the nice trough feeder said, “Gimme my check!”
There was a rash of cougar sightings in southern Indiana earlier this year. The Indiana Dept of Natural Resources put out some camera traps and was able to get one on film and they found the remains of a deer killed.
One of our neighbors spotted a cougar while horse riding in W TN. Ducks, rabbits, other small animals keep disappearing.
The usual people in the DNR wouldn’t know a cougar if it bit them on the ass.
Here in FloriDUH, the idiots in Naples planning decided to use the golf courses as cougar corridors.
When the inevitable mauling occurs, the litigation will be fierce.
Bring on the popcorn!
“The usual people in the DNR wouldn’t know a cougar if it bit them on the ass.”
Down in the Everglades, a five person team of gooberment trough feeders described in their formal “capture report” as a juvenile female, and non-lactating, too. That female cougar was fitted with a radio collar.
The report was signed by a vet, Dr. Blankenship, DVM.
Turns out, the female was a male.
Perhaps the gooberment “scientists” thought the tail was held on by the “nuts” below the tail.
If they are not falsely determining gender on sedated cougars, they are submitting falsified reports of Lynx hair, ad nauseam.
A really beautiful animal if it isn’t looking you in the eye and saying to itself, ah ha, dinner..
University of Houston=Cougar High
SSS.
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