Posted on 10/06/2006 9:11:45 AM PDT by MrNationalist
Yeah,
That book I read said the the Michigan Department of Natural Resources insists there are no cougars in the lower peninsual.
The title of the book was "Beast of Never, Cat of God" or something like that - a new book.
Bet he's part Siamese - a lot of the coal-black pouncers with large upright ears have a Siamese parent. (Genetics too complicated to discuss in detail . . . but if you cross a Siamese with an ordinary tabby cat, the offspring will usually be black . . . unless the tabby cat had a Siamese ancestor too, in which case 3/4 will be black, and 1/4 Siamese coloration.) Lots of cats have Siamese crouching somewhere on their family tree, because the Siamese boys are great lovers and great fighters . . .
Perhaps in this one case, but I assure you that there are many mountain lions in New Mexico, even close to cities.
-ccm
Beautiful dog!
That's a lot of ribbons!
Congrats!
. . . seriously, I lucked out on my very first dog. She's smart and quick and willing, everything a good dog should be.
Right now she's in the throes of jealousy because a new little puppy just entered the household.
. . . doesn't look like the kid's face got shredded, I think Mr. Tabby was paddy-pawing him.
That's funny - we have the same rumor here in PA. I never knew anyone who personally saw a mountain lion until a couple years ago, but since then 3 people I know have seen them - one was my daughter who saw it on our lane. What I've been hearing here is that anyone who calls the PGC (PA Game Commission) is told the same thing - there are no mountain lions in PA; yet if you report evidence (like the one that was killed along Rt45 reported by a guy my brother works with) the PGC collects the evidence then denies it's existence. If you are too persistent, they say the only sightings are escaped pets or zoo animals, and (I've heard a report of) if you say to the PGC "then it's OK to shoot them because the don't exist?" they'll so 'no, don't do that, there's only a couple pair left. I've joined the side that says they are being introduced and the government is lying about it.
The question is, though, what do you do if you do get proof? Pictures aren't enough proof for the PGC. If you shoot one, they'll pick it up and deny its existence to others. If you publicize evidence (like inviting the media to see the carcass), are you inviting the state to declare that you have an endangered species living in your back yard? Or are you better off, as some suggest, to 'shoot, shovel and shu-up'?
LOL! The people I know who say they saw a mountain lion say the first thing they noticed was the really long tail - with that, it kind of rules out bobcat ;-)
It's a Jackalope.
Oh, I know.
I hunt them.
Huh. The DNR said the same thing in Michigan a couple of years back. They just "knew" that there were no big cats in Michigan.
After a farmer paid for an autopsy of his dead horse, (cause of death, mountain lion) they were finally after twenty years of sightings to admit that there were indeed cougar's in Michigan but that, in contrary to everything we know about the wild, the cougars were practicing birth control because they were sure there were no breeding big cats in Michigan.
BTW They also said that you may not shoot the cougar, after all they are an endangered species in this area.
That's exactly what they're doing here. Much easier in the long run....
Not even necessarily large, but a common black cat is what it is.........
Not a cougar because cougars aren't black. Not a Jaguar/panther because they have longer legs and stay in the forest areas. This cat was video'd leaving the vicinity of the farm house and ultimately returning...........Why folks get worked up over this stuff amazes me.......
FWIW, I read an article in my local paper a few years ago about vandals indiscriminately cutting down newly planted trees in the area where I now live but didn't at the time of the article.
The paper posted a picture of one of the stumps of one of the trees cut down and I laughed my ass off. What the idiots never realized was that the trees were being chewed down by beavers!!!!! LOL!!!
Sure enough, about a month later, there was a follow-up article mentioning the same.
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