Mountain Lions-Thunder Bay

My most recent sighting was while driving back down south from visiting my folks near Thunder Bay. Was on highway 11 about 45 mins west of Cochrane when a big cat walked across the highway in front of me, close enough I had to get on the binders to make sure I didn't hit him. I couldn't get over how big the thing was!

I've seen one or two over the years growing up a little east of TBay, and several family members that have made sightings as well. They are unquestionably roaming around, but still few and far between. They probably will fade a bit in my neck of the woods, deer populations took a sh!t kicking a couple winters in a row now, lots near town, but out in the brush, not nearly as much sign as there used to be.

Hopefully these cougars don't get a taste for moose meat! With the wolves being pretty thick up there, last thing they need is another predator thinning the herd.
 
I saw one about 20 years ago near Carleton Place, ON. I was with my teenage son and we stopped and had a good look. Of course if the MNR say there aren't any, then my eyes deceived me.
 
I seen a bobcat cross a logging road once my buddy was convinced it was a couger 3 years later he still tells the story of the cougar that crossed infront of us...but i know it was just a big bobcat.
 
several years ago, i shot and killed a cougar from about 5 feet away that had been following me for enough time that i was concerned that i was on his dinner menu. called the rcmp to report the shooting and was told by the member that they were considered dangerous pests that harassed people in the area several times. was told to go out and shoot a few more if i had any more ammo. i also reported the incident to fish and game who came out the next morning to retrive the carcass.

this was in northern alberta in an area in which officially didn't have any cougars. and yes, i have several pictures of the killed cougar. extremely silent, big teeth, needle sharp claws, fast moving, and showing little fear of humans, they are not animals you want to bump into if you are unarmed.
 
I know of two both shot responding to an elk call that refused to back off after hollering and arm waving. SSS.Another followed a guy I knew for a km along a cutline shadowing him until he turned and faced him ,then strode towards the cat that was crouched under a balsam,whereupon it fled.
 
Saw a big cat crossing the Canam north of the McLennan River Recreation site in Sask a few decades ago. When I stopped in LA to take on fuel at the Shell I mentioned it to the guy running the till and he looked at me like I was crazy.

Saw one there too, back around 2005ish. Maybe same cat.
 
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