Mountain Lion in NY????

[blackradio]

I see the tail pretty clearly. I am going to get my friend to send me the original if he can find it.

[BizCT]

I see the tail pretty clearly. I am going to get my friend to send me the original if he can find it.

 

If it is a lion, its a really young/small one because that creature in the pic isn't cracking 32lbs.

[Rhwrhwrhw0426]

I got drunk with sasquatch last night his wife was a cougar thru the beer goggles

[blackradio]

If it is a lion, its a really young/small one because that creature in the pic isn't cracking 32lbs.

lol ok.

[jjb4900]

blurry pictures of Coyotes and Bobcats almost always look like Mountain Lions..........

[BizCT]

lol ok.

 

Cute little cat. You honestly think that cat/yote is even close to 40lbs?

[WNYBuckHunter]

So, here's the deal. Worked at a camp in my town for a long time. My partner and I heard my boss saying that they were having a problem with kids sneaking out at night through the back gate and that they were going to make sure security went back there more often. My buddy had a trail cam in his back seat and we decided to put it up facing the road that leads to the back gate to see if we could catch kids leaving the property (and to catch deer obviously)

 

We got some pics of bears and then we got the pic of the cat. Night pic is not great as it is a pic of a pic. Not sure if my buddy still has original. Hard to judge it's size. Based on the size of the bear, the cat is a decent size and has a very long tail. Def not a bobcat, looks bigger than house cat but much smaller than adult mtn lion.

 

Cant really use the two pics as an exact comparison for size when looking at them side by side in this post. The one with the cat in it is zoomed in by alot, which makes it look like the cat is bigger than it is. If you use the tree as the point of reference, youll notice the bear is far and away larger than the cat. Id say its a big housecat, it does look like there might be a long tail.

 

[RobC]

A friend of mine and another guy he works with both swear they saw one run across 86 outside of salamanca headed towards alleghany - olean Last summer when they were laying black top and the road was closed all summer.

Edited February 19, 2015 by RobC

[The_Real_TCIII]

I know a woman who spotted one in Colden and called it in, sure enough it was an escaped "pet". Same thing happened in Fort Erie not too long ago. So of course they have been spotted in NY (and Canada)

Edited February 21, 2015 by The_Real_TCIII

[Doc]

I know a woman who spotted one in Colden and called it in, sure enough it was an escaped "pet". Same thing happened in Fort Erie not too long ago. So of course they have been spotted in NY (and Canada)

Lol ..... wait until the day an escaped female cat bumps into an escaped male. Ha-ha-ha-ha .... my goodness, a breeding population of mountain lions.

 

What is with these jerks that want a mountain lion for a pet?

[nyantler]

Edited February 21, 2015 by nyantler

[rotorooter23]

[growalot]

 

What is with these jerks that want a mountain lion for a pet?

Doc there are animal auctions down south...hey..... you can buy a girraff if you want...I had one pet shop owner and her girls hit these every year...they'd come back with all sorts of things from coatamundi to monitor lizards...but one time they came back, proud as punch with a deal...a 3wk old baby ground hog for only 50.00...LOL sad but too funny...sad because I knew they wouldn't be able to keep the thing alive  and funny they had no idea that a groundhog was a common woodchuck and payed $50 for the poor thing.

[First-light]

My sister lives in Bedford, a little town in westchester. Her neighbor is a hedge fund owner and has camels, zebras, buffalo and ostrich. Who knows what else is lurking behind the stone walls?????

[dbHunterNY]

looks like a yote to me.

[wildcat junkie]