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Posted: Sat Aug 27th, 2005 06:01 am |
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My neighbor saw a mountain lion about 2 weeks ago. It ran across their yard, and across the street. I live in the mountains of northeast Pa. , north of Allentown.
Also, my friend, who lives about 15 miles south of here, has seen a mountain lion right across the street from her house. Twice! My son has seen one at the same place.
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Posted: Wed Aug 31st, 2005 09:22 pm |
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 I SEEN THE PANTHER IT STOOD ABOUT 3FT. TALL
AND IT WAS LOOKING OVER THE HILL ABOUT 15 YARDS FROM ME WHEN I WAS DEER LAST YEAR IN 2004. I WAS GONING TO SHOOT AT IT BUT I WAS USING A BLACKPOWDER RIFLE.I DIDNT WANT TO SHOOT AND MISS AND HAVE IT AFTER ME SO I DIDNT SHOOT AT IT.
I SEEN IT IN ROCKCASTLE CO.,KENTUCKY
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Posted: Thu Sep 1st, 2005 06:48 am |
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I don' t know of many animals that are going to come after you if you fire a black powder rifle.....especially in their direction.
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Posted: Wed Sep 21st, 2005 03:40 pm |
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My friend was driving back to Louisville Kentucky (around 11 p.m)from having visited friends of hers that live in West Virginia when she struck a yearling/adolescent mountain lion that was chasing some whitetail deer across a stretch of highway in Pike County Kentucky. She was doing about 70miles an hour and she believes she accidentally killed the young cat (much to her great sadness). She looked back at highway and did not see the animal lying in the road. She told me that it was the size of a dog but was tawny in color and had a long cat like tail. She stated to me that there were deer everywhere that they were bounding across the interstate as if they were fleeing from something. A hundred yards further up the highway my friend saw yet another cat (this one being much larger) presumeably the mother! I called the Pike County Wildlife Conservation Officer and he told me that while my report was a rare encounter; that it was not unheard of and that he had received dozens of sightings within the eastern Kentucky area within the last year. They're back and they are breeding!!! He also stated that they had either traveled east from the western states or that the state of Virginia was re-introducing the cats to its western mountainous area and that the mountain lions had migrated to Kentucky and set up residence here. I guess we do now have a small breeding population of mountain lions in Kentucky. The first of such animals in over 110yrs.  I think its great!
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Posted: Wed Sep 28th, 2005 04:23 pm |
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| I know people in Sunruse Kentucky ( Northern Kentucky ) claim they have seen a black cat. My grandmother says she has heard it scream at night. She said it sounded like a woman screaming in the woods, but could tell it was an animal. My grandmother doesn't make up stories, if she said she heard it, she believes it. Maybe it was just a bobcat, but I think she really thinks there is a black cat roaming the woods in the area. I hope it was only a bobcat, because I don't like the idea of any kind of breeding population here in the state. Sure it would be nice to have the cats, untill your dogs, cats, and eventually kids are killed by them. I know attacks on humans are rare, but they do happen and the loss of one child would be to high of a price to pay just to have the big cats back in our area. However, attacks on dogs and cats would not be a rare thing.
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Posted: Wed Sep 28th, 2005 04:24 pm |
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Posted: Thu Sep 29th, 2005 03:39 am |
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Hey! Be happy they're there...you'll seen be able to hunt for them!
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Posted: Thu Sep 29th, 2005 10:15 pm |
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| If they're here, I'll be hunting for them. That is for sure.
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Posted: Fri Sep 30th, 2005 12:15 am |
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I've never really seen a need to hunt for Mountain Lions because I wouldn't eat them therefore I wouldn't hunt them but I know many people that do hunt them and enjoy it.
Mount Lions can be frightening though, I walked up on one that for some reason didn't hear me and I about shi* my pants when it turned and looked at me from about 30 yards.
On another occasion I was hiking with some buddies during mating season for Mountain Lions and probably came across their "den" (if you will) and we were stalked by one for about 20 minutes. We'd see it walk up on the next knoll above use and hide behind a rock or brush and then it'd show up on the next hill and so on.
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Posted: Sat Oct 1st, 2005 08:36 am |
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I found this website because I was specifically looking up mountain lions. I've never seen one around my house or even heard one, but something seems to be bothering my dogs. I don't really think its a mountain lion, I just started wondering and checking things out on the net. My dogs are inside dogs, I've got a St. Bernard, A White German Shepherd, and a Jack Russel. ( I kinda got stuck with the little one ) Anyway, when I let them out to the bathroom my dogs don't want to go. They've always rushed out the door, now I have had to go as far as to grab my German Shepherd and pull him out into the yard. Its very strange and I can't figure out why they don't want to go out. They're normally fine in the middle of the day, but early in the morning they act strange sometimes and really have been acting strange at night. I live in Frankfort, Kentucky and can't imagine something like that being around here. I live in a neighborhood even, but only four houses away from a wooded area, there are actually a lot of wooded areas and farms in the area. There are deer all over the place here, you can see them just standing in the fields as you drive by, but I don't know of anything that would be in the area large enough to scare my dogs. They are normally not afraid of anything. I used to live close to Lake Cumberland in southern Kentucky and had seen some large tracks around the lake which I didn't know what were, but my dogs were never like this. They spent many nights out running and playing in my yard ( which was surrounded by woods and creeks on three sides ) and never really had a problem with it. It isn't like they don't want to get left outside, because I go out with them and when I come in so do they. My Collie died a few months ago at the age of twelve and these are all younger then he was, so I wonder if that could have anything to do with it, but why would they not want to go out some nights and some nights be ok if that was it? This has had me confused for a quite a while now and I just can't seem to figure it out. Anyone have any ideas?
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Posted: Sat Oct 1st, 2005 09:15 am |
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Hmm, I'm not sure what could be scaring your dogs.
Do your neighbors have dogs?
Just a question since I'm not familiar with Kentucky, are there badgers there?
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Posted: Sat Oct 1st, 2005 09:43 am |
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No, but badger is exactly what I was thinking when I found the tracks by the lake years ago. They led into a pile of trees that had been bulldozed down to make a clearing for a boat ramp. The tracks were going in and coming out. The odd thing is there were dogs tracks going into them also, but they weren't coming out. I kept looking and looking for more dogs tracks in the mud and couldn't find any.
As far as your question: do my neighbors have dogs. The answer is yes, and one of my neighbors has outside dogs chained inside a fence. ( don't know why they need a chain in a fenced in yard but anyway ) Sometimes their dogs will go off in the middle of the night. I know dogs do that, but the dogs on my street have been doing it a lot lately. So much so that it isn't uncommon to go outside and see one or two other people come out. I myself had two cats disappear a while back and have heard my neighbors dogs not only barking, but growling and yanking on their chains.
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Posted: Sat Oct 1st, 2005 10:08 am |
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In Omaha Nebraska, last week a mountain lion was spotted at the edge of a residentual area...not captured yet. In 2003, one was captured about 3 miles closer to Omaha. It is now in the Omaha zoo.
Unlike wolves, moutain lions have attacked and killed people.
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Posted: Mon Oct 3rd, 2005 06:16 am |
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| It sounds like people in Nebraska believe it though. Here people would probaly look at you as if you said something like ( I saw Elvis in a UFO. ) I guess there could be Mountain Lions in Kentucky, I'd say there could be about anything in these hills.
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Posted: Mon Oct 3rd, 2005 06:51 pm |
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Deer camera got this pic in Wayne County Kentucky, down by Lake Cumberland.
http://www.reh39.com/Big%20Cat.jpg
To be honest I don't know what it is. I had people who have seen them say at first glance they think it might be a dog but then say the build looks like a cat and they just don't know.
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Posted: Tue Oct 4th, 2005 12:03 am |
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rhumble wrote: Deer camera got this pic in Wayne County Kentucky, down by Lake Cumberland.
http://www.reh39.com/Big%20Cat.jpg
To be honest I don't know what it is. I had people who have seen them say at first glance they think it might be a dog but then say the build looks like a cat and they just don't know.
Nice picture!
In my mind that's definitely a cat....
Look at the way the tail curves, and the broad shoulders that protrude up, not to mention the smaller head with what appears to be small ears.
Looks like you guys have got Mountain Lions.
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Posted: Tue Oct 4th, 2005 03:53 am |
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EC wrote: rhumble wrote: Deer camera got this pic in Wayne County Kentucky, down by Lake Cumberland.
http://www.reh39.com/Big%20Cat.jpg
To be honest I don't know what it is. I had people who have seen them say at first glance they think it might be a dog but then say the build looks like a cat and they just don't know.
Nice picture!
In my mind that's definitely a cat....
Look at the way the tail curves, and the broad shoulders that protrude up, not to mention the smaller head with what appears to be small ears.
Looks like you guys have got Mountain Lions.
There is no way that is a dog, not unless someone shoved a candy cane up its . . . Well, never mind. The more I keep looking into this on the web, the more I believe it. Plus it makes since as I think Kentucky is suposed to have something like 2 million deer or is projected to reach that mark. I watched a special on big cats in California. They tracked one cat with a radio collar and it was venturing through the woods into a small wooded area behind a suburb street. There are probably just as many right behind my house, if not more. Plus, just down the road is the Kentucky River and countless ammounts of forest and farm land, which the small area of woods behind my house is attached to. Not to mention, when I say small area of woods behind my house, it is actually probably about two miles long. So who knows, maybe a big cat could really be what is scaring my dogs? I might have to venture into the woods and look for any sings. First I'll have to find out if I can, some of the property is private and I would be more worried of a fellow hillbilly with a gun then a mountain lion. People aren't to fond of other people tresspassing around here.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18th, 2005 09:53 pm |
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epuma wrote: I would like to hear from anyone who has seen the large cats called cougar, mountain lion, puma or black panther. Since 1965, over 7,500 sightings have been recorded from every state east of the Mississippi River.
Every state/federal wildlife agency continues to deny their presence, except to say, they may be relased/escaped pets. If all the sightings are of "released/escaped" pets, from which agency are the cats being released???
Contray to popular belief, 65% of all witnesses are very credible individuals with backgrounds in law enforcement, forestry or wildlife.
We would like to hear from anyone who knows of a report between the 1920s & today.....
If you wish to discuss the issue privately, we can be reached at:
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Thanks,
Johnny
I understand the cats are being deliberately released by forestry or wildlife.Last edited on Sat Jan 27th, 2007 10:42 pm by
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Posted: Tue Oct 18th, 2005 10:01 pm |
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KOF, have any proof to support your theory?
Why would the government do something like that under the peoples noses? There's no logical reason to.
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Posted: Tue Oct 18th, 2005 10:09 pm |
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rhumble wrote: Deer camera got this pic in Wayne County Kentucky, down by Lake Cumberland.
http://www.reh39.com/Big%20Cat.jpg
To be honest I don't know what it is. I had people who have seen them say at first glance they think it might be a dog but then say the build looks like a cat and they just don't know.
That looks like a dog. Tail doesn't look long enough for a cat.
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