Ontario Cougars!

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No, not the attractive middle aged women but the cat.

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Cougars+again+living+wild+Ontario+major+study+finds/6311757/story.html

I always believed there was, never seen any myself, but I am glad it is finally proven "scientifically"

Not sure if this is the appropriate forum for it, but thought you would all find interesting
 
People have been reporting sightings for years, but the scietists discarded them as escapees or mistaken identities.Nice to know we have science backing up what people have known for years.
 
I trapped for over 25 years all over Ontario. (south and north) I never crossed a track or scat or a deer kill covered. I have reviewed local sightings closely by talking with the witness. These facts ALWAYS emerge #1: it was dark #2: they were alone #3: during the time of year when there was no snow for tracking #4: over elaborate tales of cat behaviour including stretching and slinking #5: had yellow eyes #6: (no offence) but 90% of people who saw a cougar were female? I feel that if any legitimate sightings exist they were of escaped "pets" or the person just honestly thought they seen a cougar. Just my two cents bring on the flame.

regards, Darryl
 
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I trapped for over 25 years all over Ontario. (south and north) I never crossed a track or scat or a deer kill covered. I have reviewed local sightings closely by talking with the witness. These facts ALWAYS emerge #1: it was dark #2: they were alone #3: during the time of year when there was no snow for tracking #4: over elaborate tales of cat behaviour including stretching and slinking #5: had yellow eyes #6: (no offence) but 9o% of people who saw a cougar were female? I feel that if any legitimate sightings exist they were of escaped "pets" or the person just honestly thought they seen a cougar. Just my two cents bring on the flame.

regards, Darryl
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So you think they are not real? Could it be the dna they got is just from one or two random escaped pets? Or are these things just here in super low numbers
 
I can't say that they are not real. I am just saying that the sightings I have investigated, backed by my woods experience seem some what questionable. I would have to say that DNA proof is proof. BUT I feel that maybe 5% of sightings are legit.

Darryl
 
madtrapper143 said:
I can't say that they are not real. I am just saying that the sightings I have investigated, backed by my woods experience seem some what questionable. I would have to say that DNA proof is proof. BUT I feel that maybe 5% of sightings are legit.

Darryl
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That I could totally agree with, seeing as cougars are not around, most people do not know for sure what they look like or what to look for
 
I have found tracks on my place near Boulter and never said much as I was a doubter. Then my wife and her sister were frighten by one cutting their trail and leaving huge tracks in the snow near our remote home.

Soon there were numerous sightings around the area by locals. Many elk in the area also.

I thought the MNR had already confessed to re introducing them.
 
Someday maybe one will be hit by a car and the mystery will be solved. I sure hope the MNR did not re- introduce a major predator to an eco system already altered by man to make their existance a conflict. They are dangerous to humans your family was lucky no attack occurred.

Darryl
 
I caught a glimpse of one in Muskoka when snowmobileing one day with a buddy.....everyone I told said that it must have been a lynx or a golden retriever....
Glad to hear that my long tailed lynx was a cougar possibly.
I'm gonna give John a call and tell him we were right.

And even if they are escaped pet cougars....they are still here! That's like saying Flordia doesn't have pythons or boa constricters.
 
They say it takes a lot of tracks to make a decent soup, .... but cougar tracks are unlike any other predator's that I've seen in my time. Recently, a good clear set of fresh prints I found, in firm deep snow, and well researched afterwards to confirm, leaves me convinced that this animal roams the Collingwood/Blue Mountains/Meaford/Owen Sound area of central Ont..
Local lore has it that 3 animals were released by "authorities" some few years ago. I have been unable to personally confirm this, however, a local trusted co-worker, living rural, swears to have layed eyes on, a few times, in broad daylight, a mature cougar working the fencerow across from his remote home.
Deer kills, surrounded with tracks in the mud, were discovered 2 years ago by my nephew(a level-headed fellow) out back of Senic Caves on top of Blue Mountain.

Other's claim to have heard the hair raising scream's.

Seems to me the chances are better than even that ... yup, ... they are around.
 
My brothers wife's half sisters brother third cousins friends brothers sisters friend said that her best friends second cousins brothers mother said her 1st husbands brother tom saw a flying saucer while watching a cougar cross the road on his dads brothers farm last year!
 
CROWCA said:
My brothers wife's half sisters brother third cousins friends brothers sisters friend said that her best friends second cousins brothers mother said her 1st husbands brother tom saw a flying saucer while watching a cougar cross the road on his dads brothers farm last year!
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About as credible as they come.
 
I haven't seen any proof but I have heard of a few sightings, one story was a farmer found a partially eaten calf hauled up a tree, and another was a hunter I know told me he had trail cam pictures of one stalking a doe and fawn, I believe him as I don't think he is one for B.S.
 
waltman said:
I haven't seen any proof but I have heard of a few sightings, one story was a farmer found a partially eaten calf hauled up a tree, and another was a hunter I know told me he had trail cam pictures of one stalking a doe and fawn, I believe him as I don't think he is one for B.S.
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So where are the pics now?
 
waltman said:
I haven't seen any proof but I have heard of a few sightings, one story was a farmer found a partially eaten calf hauled up a tree, and another was a hunter I know told me he had trail cam pictures of one stalking a doe and fawn, I believe him as I don't think he is one for B.S.
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Sounds like your farmer friend has a leopard eating his calves or he's BS'ing you. Cougar don't cache their prey in trees.
 
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