Cougar Sighting in Orangeville Ontario

Claybuster said:
The MNR denies everything. When that doesn't work they lie. When that doesn't work they blame you.


Now that is probably closer to the truth.
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Seriously, I have a number of inside MNR contacts, the story is BS according to them. They are having a lot of trouble just keeping the enforcement units running with the budget McSquinty has given them.
 
John Y Cannuck said:
Seriously, I have a number of inside MNR contacts, the story is BS according to them. They are having a lot of trouble just keeping the enforcement units running with the budget McSquinty has given them.
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I have a few as well and the story is BS but I think waterfowlers explanation is better as to why it hasn't happened.
 
Releasing cougars onto populated areas doesnt sound like something the MNR would want to do and get blamed for.

Wow, what is going to happen in S. Ontario next.

Bears and cougars and fishers, oh my.
 
We had a sighting last year with a police officer on scene. I'm not saying the police are necessarily cougar experts but I doubt they would confirm it if they weren't certain.
 
Well out of all the trappers I know, Not one has ever seen a couger paw print not one has seen one at a bait sight or even sign, and these men live in the woods, in the Bancroft to Barrys Bay area, and make a living at this game each and every day.

Not one hunter durring deer /moose bear season has seen one, and not one hound has treed one in these area as well, and trust me 100s and 1000s of square miles get run with hounds up there you would think????

If they exist They are like BIGFOOT. I would need to see one to belive it in these areas anyway.

I think the storries are all B.S myself, Lynx yes bobcat maybe, couger cant say anything but not a chance not in the woods i come from.
 
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gth said:
Thats a little more believable there.

Foleyet is a long ways from where some of these "cougar" sightings are.
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I would love to get a good look at them myself. I wonder how they got there?.

Most of these (the ones around here) were not too far from the Track. I wonder if the cat would of hitched a ride from out west ? :confused:
 
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cougars

For the life of me I can't remember what magazine it was, but last year it had an article about cougars in Ontario. There has been proof that they are in On (biologist have confirmed)............I'm going to have to go look to see if I can find the article, it was very interesting. And back the question of "where did they come from".........cougars, pumas, mountain lions or whatever you want to call them roamed across all of North America at one point in time and I'm sure that they are gradually making their way back
 
gth said:
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"Rural" in southern Ontario context does not mean "in the middle of nowhere"

Near Moonstone. He is in a cluster of a couple of houses and has a mile of uninhabited bush behind his house to the next concession over, and a couple of miles of bush opposite his house.
 
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Cougar Proof

I found the article that I was looking for. It was in Canadian Geographic (Nov/Dec '07 issue. "The scat proves the cat’s back. Confirmation came in May, but the story started in March 2004, when Anne Yagi, a biologist with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, was inspecting a carnivore kill site in the Wainfleet Bog, near Port Colborne, Ont. She was convinced it wasn’t the work of a coyote, so she collected fur and scat samples and handed one promising piece of feces over to Stuart Kenn, president of the Ontario Puma Foundation. It turned out to be the most significant proof, in a field of frustratingly anecdotal evidence, that the cougar (Puma concolor) is reoccupying parts of its former eastern habitat"
 
shimmer said:
I found the article that I was looking for. It was in Canadian Geographic (Nov/Dec '07 issue. "The scat proves the cat’s back. Confirmation came in May, but the story started in March 2004, when Anne Yagi, a biologist with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, was inspecting a carnivore kill site in the Wainfleet Bog, near Port Colborne, Ont. She was convinced it wasn’t the work of a coyote, so she collected fur and scat samples and handed one promising piece of feces over to Stuart Kenn, president of the Ontario Puma Foundation. It turned out to be the most significant proof, in a field of frustratingly anecdotal evidence, that the cougar (Puma concolor) is reoccupying parts of its former eastern habitat"
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I read the full article when it was published. I recall that it concluded that there was no real evidence, and was "anecdotal" at best. Yes, there are some big cats in the woods of ontario, but still no evidence of the cougar.
 
I believe Trent University did some DNA testing of scat sample from Southern Ontario somewhere, and it was confirmed cougar.

Personally, I think there is the odd one around, maybe just released or escaped from captivity though.

Again, as far as the MNR releasing them.......that makes me howl. I think I might start the "Southern Ontario Cougar Safari" for all those believers!!!
 
Last Saturday at about 9:00 on Dwyer Hill Road near Ottawa, I was driving by a field and saw either a cougar, or the largest dog tan-coloured with a long curled tail that I've ever seen. I stopped the car and backed up, but it was then gone.

I can't be sure, but my eyes aren't that bad, and I don't stop like that and look again for a deer or a dog.
 
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