What are your thoughts on this pic that I got this weekend in Ladysmith, Wi ??

Cougar, no doubt about it. They can jump 25' straight up....not to be fucked with.

i think it is a cougar too.

We have been seeing and game cameras photographing a Cougar East of Hayward in the Moose Lake area for over a year now, DNR says it's not possible, the pictures can be seen at Louies Landing Resort. Spider Lake golf course has pictures and witnesses who seen a Black Cougar on the golf course.

Don

cut that grass down and throw some meaty bones there from the butcher and get him on camera again before he moves along somewhere else... thats a good size cougar!

Wisconsin DNR & Michigan DNR must be reading from the same handbook...Our DNR claims that there are no Cougars in Michigan...B/S...I've seen 1 myself W/out a doubt what I saw at 30ft away.
SOB was 6 1/2' long near Roscommon Mi. We've had lots of sightings here in Cheboygan as well...
Guess you gotta shoot 1 and drop it on their desk to prove they are here...but then they would ticket you for not having a permit to kill it LOL

There was a pair of the seen in Conover WI.

Def a cougar. Saw tracks 2 years ago in Bayfield county.

Had a similar experience with the wardens in maine. Came accross a wolf broadside in the trail while hunting for sheds in north western Maine while sledding this year. No mistaking it for a coyote when it was 100+ lbs, 4 ft plus at the back, and probably over 5ft long . They told me it was a coyote that I must have seen. Sorry been around the woods to long and seen to many coyotes. This scared me it was so big.

Cougar no question.

Had one walk through in front of me opening morning in Cheboygan county 2 years ago.....nobody believed me but I know what I saw.

Had one walk in front of me in Garden michigan hunting opening morning also. I saw it and no one belived me, I know what I saw it was a cougar.

Ya tha is def a couger. The one I seen was walking and it had snowed the night before, just a dusting or so. that thing waas walking and could walk as fast as I could srpint. (I run fast too) After i was done hunting I got down and looked at his prints. the snow was melting fast so I couldn't show anyone. Michigan is the same way the DNR says they dont exist, I think I should shoot one and set in on their desk. After seeing that I went and got a CCW and carry a gun when I hunt now.

sighting here in Ontario are picking up as well and MNR says it's not possible....black cougar spotted locally (never new a blck cougar existed) and a few other sightings???? buddy of mine is a C.O. (game warden ) says sightings are likely real but could be animals that have been held in captivity that escaped....that pics looks awfully big to be a cougar, look at the front shoulder area more like a lion

Hey there, I live in Ladysmith, where was that picture taken at?????? Really interested in knowing! There was a moose sighting up here over the weekend also! Seen the pics, the things was a monster! about a mile from my cabin too!

rare sighting.. look on the net... very few people have ever seen them.. Wildlife managment says they don't exist. A few sighting in NB.

http://website.nbm-mnb.ca/English/stories04.html

I'd love to see one up close.

I'm in central iowa and we had several sightings around our area too. Same story from the DNR, they aren't around here. Well, a trail camera caught one perfectly and the DNR finally admitted it was a real pic and that they could be here. We don't need a special license around here for one, just the normal hunting license and habitat stamp like pheasants or coyotes. That will probably change now.

I saw a very large cougar in Bemidji Mn area about 10 years ago. My son thought I lost my marbles... until he saw it 45 minutes later. Rather than guess how long it was, and no one believe me, just picture this, both of the front legs were on one side of the railroad tracks and both of the back ones were on the other side. When the back legs were across the rails, the tail was longer than the width of the rails. I never worried much before about going to my deer stand in the dark, now I keep looking around me with a loaded rifle.

We are going through the same thing here in NE P.A. sightings and two fuzzy pics and game commission says no way. Last sighting was three weeks ago, mother with 2 young ones.

Yea scary, it bothers me for the same reason, they have seen another one a few miles from the first sightings & pictures,--- don't forget to look up too.

Don

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There have been a handful of Cougar sightings in the southern Rusk/northern Chippewa county area over the last year or so. Population is relatively sparse, but yet there are enough folks around to catch one crossing a road here and there. I haven't seen one myself, but my folks have, as have a few others I know. They've been sightings in broad daylight too, not fuzzy pictures from a trailcam or a sighting in the headlights from 300 yards away. Everyone who has seen one has said there was no question about what they were looking at.

Same deal in Massachusetts. About 10 years ago when I was 6 I saw my friends dog get in a fight with one. My friend was with me and we both saw the thing tower over his german shepherd. Of course nobody believed me until a couple years later when a couple more were spotted in the area. Now there are local sightings at least a couple times a year.

Saw a cougar crossing the orad last labor day in Deer River, MN.

Thats a dog!

I concur its adog

Looks like blood hound

This pic was posted on lake-link...are you the guy whose camera who it came off of?

My memory was DNR analyzed it and said it wasn't a cougar....something about the tail There's a whole thread on it if I recall.

Was watching this post for a while biting my tongue, glad others also see the skinny assed hound I saw at first glance.
Cougars are around the countryside but are extremely rare and mysterious outside of there home range, hence the optimistic interest!
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This is a skinny assed hound eating cougar!!

WOW!!!!! i would have crapped my pants if I would have seen that on my porch!!!! Would have grabbed a GUN TOO!!!! Thats insane!

Wow, that is awesome. Did you put some tuna out there for the big kitty? I think I would want to be on his good side.

Here KITTY KITTY! Do you want some milk!

Looks like a cougar to me.

That pic has been around michigan-sportsman for quite some time. It's a hound on the bait pile!

We had a cougar or something like that run accross the road in front of our truck in the Norhern Wisconsin area around 2 am last year on our way to the UP......

definetly a cougar i had one pass through my yard a week ago in bessemer mi on the western end of the U.P.

Its funny that the DNR says that there not around. There was a cougar that was shot and killed in downtown Chicago this past week. http://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/20...ts/sports11.txt If there are cougars in Chicago, there are definately cougars in the UP.........

the reason the DNR will not acknowledge them is because they would have to start managing them and possiably open a season. We all know what that means more MONEY!!!

Most likely that it came from canada?

I talked to a guy that collared some cubs or kittens,whatever there called in the black hills several years ago.Last he heard from the guy that was actually in charge was one was lost(possibly dead batteries in collar.One was hit by a train in kansas.One was in canada and last but not least one was near big bay in upper michigan.Pretty amazing that those 4 traveled that far to set up house.

We,ve had a # of different sightings near gobles.. My son. the guy next to him..And evidence that one attacked a horse two miles up the road from us... My wife and I heard it one night.. That unmistakeable shreek that they make........ MMV.

we've got a couple that like to hang around where i live, only seen two during the day, one crossing our highwayand another walking on the rock in my abck yard. Nothing freakier then sitting around the fire outside and hearing the crazy shreek those things let out. I wana set up a trail cam on my deck and try to get a few good shots

My 31 year old daughter and her hubby and two friends saw one yesturday 1 mile from her house here in SW mich... They stopped the car and watched it for a few minutes.... Yup!!! here kitty-kitty. MMV.

I relative of a coworker of mine (the story has to be true when it starts like that LOL) told the dnr he saw one and was laughed at, after seing it enough that he could pattern it he talked (anoyed) the local dnr officer into going back there to look for tracks and they found a den with live cubs and it was never publicly aknowledged, because as he put it, The dnrs offical stance on them is that because of the extreme distances and large home range they may wander into MN from Canada but there is not an active breeding population. But basicaly off the record he told them they have ben around off and on for years

next time go pet one there probly tamed

Hey North Twin....remember the cougar sighting in the tree outside the church in Rhinelander? That pic was used 5 or 6 times in different parts of the US....i dont truly doubt we dont have one over in this region but very very unlikely....and that cougar on the porch...idc where you are i woulda been loading the gun....

I'm in Rice Lake and there's been at least 1 sighting of a black cougar/panther looking cat north of town. That was last summer (or the one before maybe), and 3 different people saw it at the same time....coming out of the woods I hunt too . A relative of mine has a deer farm right across the road from where that sighting was. They've had many dead deer that were obviously attacked by a big cat, looked up photos of cougar deer kills on the internet and they match perfectly. They even made moldings of paw prints found in the dirt. The disturbing part is there have been a lot just killed without being eaten at all.

When they brought the photos and paw print mold to the DNR they just continue to say no cougars exist in the area. I guess you can't go to jail for shooting something that doesn't exist? I'm assuming they deny it so the government doesn't have to compensate people for livestock kills like they do for wolves?


Some friends of my brother were camping somewhere in southern MN along the mississippi river in the bluff country. Just before dark most of the group decided to go for a short hike, but my brothers friends wife was tired (she was pregant) and decided to take a nap at the camp. She was sleeping face down on a blanket on the ground, not in a tent. She woke up to a cougar sniffing the back of her neck. She layed there frozen for a while before the rest of the group returning from the hike scared it off. Needless to say, she didn't stay in the woods that night!

So, they are definitely around. Probably not in great numbers, but around.

we have them here in the Adirondacks....along withe black bear and Gray Wolves. DEC says cougars do not exist here. one was killed by a car not to far from here. i saw it. it was not in the papers. why?

Was deer hunting last november in maine and had a deer walk out at the edge of a beaver bog. It was very skitish coming in, unlike any deer movement I have seen. All of a sudden as I try to scope the deer, it leaps drasticlly to the right . I pull the scope down upset not to have a chance and the next thing I know a mountain lion jumps right onto the spot where the deer was standing. Crazy stuff. Couldnt believe what I was seeing. Had been lots of talk of sightings crossing the roads but never thought I would get the chance to see one in the woods.

I live in western NY and have been hearing talk for the past year or two about cougars being seen in NY. Does anyone have any trail cam photos of cats in Wester Ny area?