Lion after Boneyarder near LA

[mauconnfan]

Agreed, but bobcats account for 90% of mountain lion "sightings". Surprised your sighting wasn't confirmed since so many others saw it.

Like the bear, moose and even fischer cats, it'd be amazing if a few lions could re-establish a stable presense in CT or at least the Northeast.

Yeah that has to be true at times no doubt. The bobcat (s) I've seen in my yard are obviously very big in comparison to domestic and could fool some. Have not seen a fischer cat but have heard the SOB and that's an eery freaking sound.

 

[RichZ]

Have not seen a fischer cat but have heard the SOB and that's an eery freaking sound.

I thought I was hearing a fisher cat up in the woods behind my house for quite a while -- usually heard it in the hour or two just before dawn. Not every night, but sometimes two or three nights in a row, then I might not hear it for another week. Horrid sound. I could only describe it as an angry, hissing, growling, screech.

Anyway, one night, it woke me up. Sounded like it was right outside my window. Neighbor has a cat that often craps in the flower bed there, so I figured it might have just met its maker at the teeth of a fisher cat. Got up, went to the window and hit the back light. Bobcat. And not a very big one. It ran into the woods, stopped and screeched. Turned out my fisher cat was a bobcat all along.

Talked to a wildlife biologist about it, and he said most of the fisher cat "unseen but heard" stories in CT are much more likely bobcats than martens.

 

[pj]

I'm still waiting for the conclusion. Did the fire department to help that kitty down from the telephone pole?

 

[Hoophound]

It's a cool thought but the mountain lion was from South Dakota. Probably looking for new fracking territory.

That's a bs DEP story. The mountain lion having DNA of a South Dakota lion is irrelevant. Any lions that migrate east will have the DNA of western lions for the rest of time. The only thing the DNA in the dead lion proved was that the lion is a descendant of a western mountain lion.

What DEP is saying, "there are no native Eastern Mountain Lions", means that the original Eastern Mountain Lions are extinct. It has no bearing on whether or not western lions have moved east and are reproducing here or for how long they've been doing so. There are mountain lions all over New England or thousands of people, including wildlife officials in Haddam CT, don't know what a mountain lion looks like.

Nobody knows exactly why DEP officials deny lions in New England despite constant evidence, including the CT carcass, but they do.

 

[RMoore1999]

Live on Provin Mountain which in my area separates Feeding Hills, Westfield and Southwick pretty much. There have been sightings of a mountain lion and it was confirmed by our friend last year on her way to work as it came out of the reservoir area to cross the street in from of her. I asked if it could have been a bobcat because I see them in my backyard 2-3 times a year but she said way too big and no doubt in here mind.

They're around here, not sure there's many at all but I am sure they're up there in the sticks. Also our road separates the mountain and a huge state park so they can be anywhere. I know between those guys and the black bears which are in my yard more often than the bobcats, I walk the dog with a walking stick that has some punch to it just in case, never know. They're gonna get a beat down before they get my dog LOL

Hope your stick is big and firm...

 

[superjohn]

Agreed, but bobcats account for 90% of mountain lion "sightings". Surprised your sighting wasn't confirmed since so many others saw it.

Like the bear, moose and even fischer cats, it'd be amazing if a few lions could re-establish a stable presense in CT or at least the Northeast.

It was close to 15 years ago, not sure about where the "sightings" go since ai never reported it to the DEP or newspaper but I certainly saw it and a buddy of mine happened to be in a car on the other side of the road and he saw it. There were several cars stopped in both lanes.

 

[mauconnfan]

It was close to 15 years ago, not sure about where the "sightings" go since ai never reported it to the DEP or newspaper but I certainly saw it and a buddy of mine happened to be in a car on the other side of the road and he saw it. There were several cars stopped in both lanes.

Where was this sj?

 

[8893]

fischer cats

Fisher cats are nasty -ers. Like honey badgers, they don't give a .

 

[mauconnfan]

 

[superjohn]

Where was this sj?

On route 202 in Litchfield, right by Wamogo high school.