[jdm]

Cougar sighting?

[ER Doc]

About 18-20 years ago, an old Ojibwa woman told me she was seeing cougars in the woods in central Minnesota, while the Minnesota DNR was saying the occasional cougar sightings they investigated were large house cats, yellow dogs, and escaped pets. About ten years later, they confirmed there actually was a breeding population of cougars in Minnesota.

[CholeraJoe]

Stiffler's Mom kinda cougar?

[Renfield]

Big Cat ping.

[Smokin' Joe]

Fendry said he has received about 40 calls and e-mails from people in Rock County claiming they have seen a cougar or saw one in the past.

The same happened here in North Dakota, with the claims filed under 'anecdotal evidence' (IOW, generally poo-poohed), until someone brought in a dead cougar.

For the uninitiated, these are beautiful, sneaky, nasty and deadly critters. There is a reason they were eliminated from inhabited areas, like many other predators who will view a human as a hot lunch in a pinch.

[Snickering Hound]

So THAT'S where he's been all these years...

[saganite]

Thought this was a thread about Mellencamp.

[Yaelle]

"Help me, Daddy!"

[SGCOS]

Was it Charlie the Lonesome Cougar?

[lmailbvmbipfwedu]

Cool, send a few to northern Indiana. Maybe they can take care of the deer and goose problem.....

[Corin Stormhands]

Where’s Kim Bauer when you need her...

[righttackle44]

Wait a minute!
Wait a minute!

There is somebody from Washington State University
there?

Is this somehow a big deal?

[weegee]

Mr and Mrs Bin Laden: Rockers in Rome Hoping for Peace and a Meeting with the Pope (Daily Mail February 5, 2008)

Omar Bin Laden, 26, who admits attending terror training with the Al Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, has been interviewed with his wife Jane Felix-Browne, 52, by British Embassy officials in Cairo, where he is currently living.”

[Osage Orange]

The DNA sample came from blood while Fendry and another DNR employee tracked footprints in the snow.

Where did the blood come from?

[jack_napier]

Pffft. I saw a cougar at the bar the other night...

[gnarledmaw]

"If it is determined to be wild, it would be the first [time the DNR is willing to admit] that cougars had returned to Wisconsin since the early 1900s."

There has been some around Rice Lake for at least 20 years and Im aware of at least 1 outside of Pembine. Googling around finds alot of reports, some rather reliable, that they are all over the North half of the state.