Just Great.... I thought Coytoes were bad....

[RetPara]

Spoke with a neighbor across the road yesterday that raises full size Collies. She was hesitant to tell me about it, but last week she had seen from her 2nd floor bedroom window, this cat put its head up in the tall grass behind her house (just across the property line). Didn't look like a house cat as it was kind brown, like the dry grass. Then it ducked back down. A few second later it pounces above the grass and nails a rabbit. It was sandy brown and had a very long tail the same color with a 'knot' at the end.

It was probably a damn cougar. We've had sightings and livestock attacks reported all around Jackson County (MI) now for about two years now.

Wonderful... just wonderful.

[RIFLEMAN24G]

Possible. I know there are a few in Wisconsin in the Bluff country. They like huge hills and cliffs for some reason. I have seen them personally in the wild, which is kinda odd they arent native to the midwest. I keep hearing they escaped from game farms but thats BS. They were either here from the get go and are populating or are migrating all over. Moose and elk are being spotted outside their normal territories as well.
Which got some people thinking they are migrating because they sense there is going to be a great change in the eco system or a natural disaster is on the brink... fricken weird but makes sense.

[RetPara]

They were native up around here till about the turn of the 19th Century when they were hunted down. With the population denisty in Michigan, especially Southern Michigan I think they're just becoming visible and the increased use of the web is having more sightings reported. In Sleeping Bears Dunes State Park in Westen Michigan they have posted signs warning people that Cougars may be in the area....

[CAL]

Shit, I'd love to have a crack at shooting a cougar!

[SpongeBob]

Reminds me of Ricky Bobby....
Take it on your next road trip!!!!!

[RedFalcon]

The wife swears she saw one cross the road in front of her car one night as she headed home from work. This was in Holly, MI. We've had sightings in the Flint area for years. I remember back in high school, a Mt. Morris family caught a black one on video tape - it was prowling around in the trees behind their place.

Wouldn't surprise me in the least. Somebody recently hit a black bear with a car on the express way outside of Flint.

With all of the development, the animals people usually don't know are there are being pushed out into the light of day for all to see.

[VoTrooper99]

Them Panthers is takin' over!


(watch out for the black ones...they're the most fearsome kind!)


Good ole RI and Southern MA. There are no wild animals that want to eat or kill you around here.

We're spoiled.