Moose Hunting 2009...possible cougar in ONT?

Couldnt get a pic since the camera was dead and I didnt even have time to get binos up on it. I saw it from about 150yds away on the opposite shoreline of my watch. I thought maybe a fox but it looked bigger and the tail was smooth and rounded at the end. This is up around Chapleau....we also found cat tracks in the area a couple days later. Not to mention the wolves going crazy not too far from our camp in the bush....pretty intense first hunt for me but we didnt even see any moose.
 
It might of been a lynx, Ive seen a lot of big ones this year..one of which is on my trailcam..IM two hours from chapleau . It could of also been a cougar , Ive heard of some sightings near here too.
 
Their have been A few confirmed Cougar sightings in Manitoba, and a cat was harvested be a farmer not to long ago, the story was in Outdoor Canada. One lady got pictures of one in her front yard, the pics were in the Winnipeg Sun about a year ago so I would believe it
 
It had a very long tail and looked to be clear of any bars or spots was more of a sandy kind of colour than a grey, it's driving me insane not knowning....or maybe I was day dreaming who knows
 
There are Courgars in Ontario according to the Puma foundation and they have been spotted in and around apparently. No one ever gets a pic though.
 
Funny thing, a buddy of mine was driving down the hwy from North Bay to Temiscaming Quebec when he saw what he thought was a cougar crossing the road very slowly. He grabbed his camera on the seat and when he got to the spot he saw it cross the animal was off the side of the road laying down. He said he was in absolute shock at how much a wolf dying from a severe case of the mange looked like a cougar crossing that road. He said the skin colour was dead on and the tail having no hair on it appeared perfectly cat like right down to a dark colouration on the end. He said that animal was so sad looking he was sorry he didnt have his rifle along to put it out of it's misery. He said it was there in that spot hours later when he returned home just laying there barely able to lift it's head.Maybe with all the wolves you heard, maybe just maybe saw one with without fur, maybe one with the mange.
 
I've seen a mountain lion in 35 (Ranger Lake Road to be exact) and I've heard of others seeing them too! Cool stuff if you ask me...

Where were you in 35?
 
I would say Cougar----Lynx has a bobbed tail.
My son and I saw a Cougar cross the road in front of us just after dark 2 years ago----I had got off a set of day shifts and we were on our way to the Hunt shack in mid November. At first I thought it was a doe or yearling deer that was crawling across the road on it's belly for some reason---just as I noticed that it also had a tail that was about the same length of it's body, it was disappearing into the bush.
This was on the Flemming Road about 1 km from the Off Lake Road for anyone who knows the area.
I thought about calling the MNR but it seems that anyone who claims to have seen a Cougar in Ontario is an instant laughing stock!
 
my cousins chased a cougar up near Red Lake Ontario a couple years ago. It jumped out in front of them on a logging road right at dark. They kept following it (doing about 40km) until the water ended in the ditch and the cat turned on a dime and leaped about 15 feet across the ditch into the bush.
 
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