This is on facebook. They have video of a housecat and photos of pawprints that are less than 2" long. I tried to inject some rational thought into the debate but the cat is out of the bag.
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand
This is on facebook. They have video of a housecat and photos of pawprints that are less than 2" long. I tried to inject some rational thought into the debate but the cat is out of the bag.
Good luck with that
I assume you're talking about the SNF Facebook page. It happens every couple of months or so, and it is maddening. It's a nice group, mostly people posting some often very good photos, but there are a few wackjobs who continue to claim regular encounters with bears and mountain lions but who also are curiously unable to provide solid photographic evidence. Not to mention the Sasquatch chasers, who are at a completely different level of delusion.
It is both amusing and highly depressing.
(Inflammatory political snark)
This is on facebook. They have video of a housecat and photos of pawprints that are less than 2" long. I tried to inject some rational thought into the debate but the cat is out of the bag.
Mountain Lions are pretty easy animals to identify. I'm not sure how people could be so easily fooled.
This is on facebook. They have video of a housecat and photos of pawprints that are less than 2" long. I tried to inject some rational thought into the debate but the cat is out of the bag.
Mountain Lions are pretty easy animals to identify. I'm not sure how people could be so easily fooled.
Lack of pawprints 5 inches wide and 8 inches long is a dead give away. There are 100s of good old boys that would pull over and check out tracks like this in a snowy field. That and a complete lack of trail cam photos as well. That being said it does amaze me we don't get more randomly crossing the river in IL but it doesn't happen but once in a blue moon.
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand
Watch out for those cougers.
Confirmed kitty cat sightings - they're very conservative on confirming. I know there have been many more sightings in Illinois.
zoomable interactive map:
https://www.cougarnet.org/confirmations/
Dr. Clay Nielsen of SIU's Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory
is a leading cougar/bobcat researcher. He estimates that cougars are likely to recolonize areas in the Midwest in the next 25 years.
They’ve been in Randolph county for at least 25 years. A friend who worked for the IDNR said they didn’t want to acknowledge their presence because of all beaureaucritic bullshit involved.
“The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.”
-- Al McGuire
They’ve been in Randolph county for at least 25 years. A friend who worked for the IDNR said they didn’t want to acknowledge their presence because of all beaureaucritic bullshit involved.
Yes. While rare and stealthy, they are here.
March on triumphantly!
While driving up the Bald Knob Cross road in the mid 1970s, we saw a huge, cat-like animal about 50 feet in front of the car. It was at least 4 feet in length with a long tail. It walked across the road with the typical pacing gait of a cat. When we saw it, everyone in the car shouted "what the **** was that." I still remember that sighting, 45 years later. Although it possibly was a mutant, monster bobcat, I always believed it was a mountain lion.
Maybe it was Bigfoot. 😊
I think I might know this cougar. Used to hang out at Merlin's.
While driving up the Bald Knob Cross road in the mid 1970s, we saw a huge, cat-like animal about 50 feet in front of the car. It was at least 4 feet in length with a long tail. It walked across the road with the typical pacing gait of a cat. When we saw it, everyone in the car shouted "what the **** was that." I still remember that sighting, 45 years later. Although it possibly was a mutant, monster bobcat, I always believed it was a mountain lion.
Did it have udders as well as a long tail? 😀
Although I'm sure we brought along a case of Busch qts, and some pot, we usually waited until we got to the top to imbibe. The creature was sans udder.
Cougar sighting in the Shawnee?
likely just a someone who wondered away from the Makanda board walk, but men under 25 should not travel alone.
While driving up the Bald Knob Cross road in the mid 1970s, we saw a huge, cat-like animal about 50 feet in front of the car. It was at least 4 feet in length with a long tail. It walked across the road with the typical pacing gait of a cat. When we saw it, everyone in the car shouted "what the **** was that." I still remember that sighting, 45 years later. Although it possibly was a mutant, monster bobcat, I always believed it was a mountain lion.
Bobcats have very short tails. Way back when I was a kid, deer were scarce. I know that sounds hard to believe, but it is true. My theory is that the predators follow the game, just like in Africa. I used to own property between Horseshoe Lake and the Mississippi River, in Alexander County. Several hundred acres of bottomland timber. About 15 years ago I found the track of the rear foot of a black bear on that property, and have talked to a couple of reliable sources down there who also have run across them. One friend saw a female with cubs. AND there was a mountain lion killed by a train just south of Chester a few years back.
PS- we have armadillos now too!
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James Madison
