Mountain Lion in NY

[mxsmitz201]

Not a fisher or a lion of any kind but my tenant 9 yrs ago called to say there was a kangaroo on the backyard fence.

All i could say was take a picture and how much have you been drinking. Think she claimed to see something else a few yrs ago but i think then she was on meds lol

hey a few years ago a game farm that had exotic animals was broken into and some PETA enthusiast tree huggers let all the animals loose and for weeks there were reports of a kangaroo being seen along the nys thruway near canastota.... then my dad came home from work one day and said "hey guess what i saw on my way home from work?" yea... a damn kangaroo.

[irish_redneck]

Someone shot one near nelson. Had been released from "the wild" in chittenango. Think it was a wallaby not a full kangaroo

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[Suilleabhain]

Steve, pics are on my friend's IPod or whatever that thing is called. I'll email him at work tomorrow and see if he still has them.

[KenAxe-7]

My father spotted one while hunting on Fort Drum no less than 10 years ago. I trust his judgement he said it was within 50 yards of him.

[Pygmy]

My father spotted one while hunting on Fort Drum no less than 10 years ago. I trust his judgement he said it was within 50 yards of him.

My Dad saw one in the road in the town of Woodhull about 30 years ago..

I trust his judgement as you trust your father's.

I also think he was mistaken.

A good friend of mine who is a retired State Trooper showed me a picture of a black one with a radio collar on it... I looked at it and nodded...It was SO obviuously a big housecat wearing a red collar..Somebody's pet.

Sometimes very honest folk's judgement is not accurate...

Shucks...If my judgement was always accurate, I'd still be happily married...<< grin>>...

[WNYBuckHunter]

There was a story about a "mountain lion" complete with a picture down in Belmont or Belfast a few years back. After people contacted the newspaper, they went to where the photo was taken and did some measuring of other objects in the pic. It was a house cat. The people swore up and down it was a giant mountain lion. People misidentify animals all the time.

[AaronBlaine]

omg this was so much fun! I have not laughed that hard in a long time! Well these are all very good points and i would love to see a picture! I never saw any mountain lions on the trip however the big ass buck i took a shot at and missed stood up on two legs and gave me the finger as he walked off smirking in my face...god damn deer

[verminater71]

tell me what this is

[AaronBlaine]

oh damn! OK we got a pic! Tell us more about this photo was it taken in ny? What does everyone think!?

[waterweasle]

at most the worst pic I could imagine, zoomed in on it, brightened it up some, snout looks longer, more canine to me................though its a piss poor pic at best

Edited December 5, 2012 by waterweasle

[cynthiafu]

looks like a brown bear with a dead moose

[AaronBlaine]

hmm interesting the snout may be tucked behind the carcass which could lead to coyote or could very well me a ml!

[New York Hillbilly]

Holy smoke................a gargoyle!

[AaronBlaine]

could be the chupacombra! Back for more!

[waterweasle]

whats with that pic anyways??? looks odd with the dark halo around it......................though that halo doesent go all the way around the pic, the top of it is flat..............seems odd to me

[verminater71]

it's a bad picture for sure...but for a cell phone and a spotting scope what can you expect

the point is most people see it and want to beleive it's a lion....WRONG

just a bobcat

[BizCT]

Exactly.

[waterweasle]

cool, a cell phone through spotting scope.never woulda guessed that.................I had thought bobcat, but wasnt as sure as just saying I didnt think it was a cougar

[New York Hillbilly]

You won't believe it but with the tuft ears that's what I was thinking. I just surprised myself.....lol

[waterweasle]

I wasnt sure if I was seeing ear tufts or not.......one reason I didnt say bobcat

[AaronBlaine]

oh very cool! Thanks for the post!

[verminater71]

it sucks...I have to travel 2 hours to hunt them....and see more at home than I ever do up north

had a beauty walk under me during bow season

[BizCT]

Im going to Minnesota to get one in a few weeks.

[waterweasle]

it sucks...I have to travel 2 hours to hunt them....and see more at home than I ever do up north

had a beauty walk under me during bow season

where do you live/hunt?

[verminater71]

I live in dryden and hunt 7R, mostly

however I hunt from tioga county all the way up to watertown