Mountain Lions

[SteveB]

Key word is "reported" - nobody has ever put forth a single bit of hard evidence.

Not even with 1000's of trail camera's out there.

[BIGHUNTER2700537]

yea there not here

[WNYBuckHunter]

Hey look, the Colorado porch kitty again!

The day someone provides verifiable evidence of a wild Mountain Lion in NY, Ill eat my words and admit Im wrong. The keywords in that statement are verifiable and wild.

[burmjohn]

Even if someone shoot one in NY it will be the same stuff... Prove it, yada yada.. Only way it will work if someone blasts one on live TV...

[WNYBuckHunter]

No, you can verify by photo or video, you just need to go to the same spot and get measurements of objects near the animal in question for a frame of reference. There was a reported Mountain Lion in the southern tier last year with a picture and everything. The news agency went back to the spot and took measurements which showed that the animal in the picture was a house cat. If there is one killed in NY, verifying that it was killed here would be pretty simple if its true. DNA testing can verify whether its a wild cat or not, the DNA in captive animals is very very similar to one another due to inbreeding, a wild cat would not show those signs.

[BIGHUNTER2700537]

WNY I think were the only ones hear that think there not hear.

[burmjohn]

Good points. That must of been 1 big house cat then?

[WNYBuckHunter]

Nah, the people just wanted to see one so bad that any cat of a somewhat similar color looked like one to them. They did not comprehend size compared to other objects around it. I wish I still had the link to the stories. The first story was the news organization reporting the ML sighting, the second was where they went and verified the measurements and discovered it was a kitty cat.

[BIGHUNTER2700537]

Was that they story about the mt lion in supplosy in coring and that they had the ny plate in the back.

[WNYBuckHunter]

No, the one you are talking about was another set of pics from Colorado, and you could see the CO plates on cars in the photos.

[Daveboone]

A week ago just about dusk, I had a fisher cat run across the road about  30 feet in front of me. At a dead run, as it was, I can easily see how the inexperienced observer may mistake them for a (black) cat...or panther, depending on how mush ...I mean much tape measure you have blin blinjkiinig.

[BIGHUNTER2700537]

Yeah I see what your saying.

[ny hunter]

I heard there was a Mountain lion spotted in Rockland county last year. I was told one got hit by a car on the Taconic Parkway.So who knows.

[Nyhunter325]

just last year me and my buddy tracked one through the snow around feburary we tracked it for about 2-3 hundred yards and saw it crossing a small creek about 80 yards away from us in orleans county in lyndonville

[Larry]

any pic's