They been running around Chicago-land for years now. With Michigan right around the corner, and better landscape. would not suprise me. would love to see that pic

 

According to the Illinois DNR those are "pets" someone released not wild cougars, Illinois has no cougar population.

They also have no crooked politician population either..............

 

ill look for the memory card but the pic we have is a printed copy

 

I got a picture of bigfoot on my trailcam, never printed it out but im looking for that memory card too.:thumb:

 

We have them in MN but no population according to the DNR. They are here but mostly in the north, northwest, and northeast. A trailcam snapped a pic of one only 12 miles southwest of our cabin up off the northshore north of Duluth a few years ago.

Many have been spotted in Wisconsin and actually filmed. A buddy I hunt with has pics of his co-worker with a big dead male cougar he hit with his Chevy truck over in Wisconsin. The DNR actually let him keep it. The paw out stretched is larger than his head!

My friends in Northwest Bemidji MN see one at least once a year.

I believe it very possible for them to be even in mainland North Michigan.

 

I don't know, I think the cougars on the west coast are hotter.....oh wait, wrong forum...

 

Since you aren't known to have a "breeding population" you don't have real cougars but an imitation cougar.
Apparently they are completely harmless with rubberized teeth and child safe blunt claws.

I would like to understand their definition of "population".

But, they won't be concerned. There could be a thousand males as long as there are no females, there is no "population".

They just don't like women.

 

Actually, they just don't like men. Only the females count, the males don't.

 

Michigan DNR didn't want to acknowledge the existence because if they did then they would be forced by some federal law to initiate a conservation program and that costs money. Notice I said "Didn't want to"?

 

I'm a cougar. But I am not in Michigan.

 

.......Cougar Alert!!!!!.......

 

I don't understand.
Michigan DNR does admit we have cougars in Michigan.
What makes you think they are lying when they have entire web pages about them?

Cougar info and reporting links

DNR Verifies Cougar Tracks, Confirms Location of Trail Camera Photo in Eastern Upper Peninsula

-HikerDad

 

Yeah, according to our DEC in NY the only cougers here are found at "Fridays" after 9:00PM!

(however the ones that eat horses and cows are often spotted by us country folk)

 

Most of the time from what I've seen you can't trust the DNR. I know for a fact that we have cougars in downstate Illinois. The DNR says otherwise.

 

they say we don't have wolves either:taped:

 

Im pretty sure I saw one thirty years ago around the Roscommod/ West Branch area in Lower Michigan. My brother and I were logging in that area and were riding down the road, I glanced out the window and swear I saw a cougar standing by a small creek. My brother kind of laughed at me and said there werent any cougars in Michigan but thirty years later I still believe what I saw was a cougar.

 

yes they are around!

 

Am I the only one who saw "Michigan Cougars" and thought, porn title...?

 

As far as i knew, Michigan always had cougars. I live in the state and I've always heard about them. I ran into the tracks of once when hunting when there was snow on the ground last year. It was either that or the largest house cat/bobcat in existence

 

One was just in the news in Ontanogon County ,caught on trail cam with collar and tag visible.

 

We had them around my family's farm growing up in NC. Our DNR has repeatedly said the Eastern Mt. Lion was extinct, but multiple trail cam pics over the years say otherwise.

 

West side of MI has all kinds of cougars. I'm a big fan of fast driving Asian ones.

 

You owe me a new keyboard!:

 

There have been sightings in the twin cities metro area here in MN. One was captured on trailcam down by the river feeding on a deer. The most recent metro sighting posted in the news was in the northeast metro in Vadnais Heights near I-694 a couple years ago. I am sure they are all just passing through but with all the deer we have it's kind of surprising there isn't a breeding population. The food and northern habitat is prime for them.

 

Because cougars are "protected" animals by the tree hugging left leaning folks. If there is a breading population the state would have to pay to protect them. The most recent one filmed was radio tagged in North Dakota.

 

They tell us the same B/S in Texas. I personally think they have planted them in many places to help deal with the wild pig infestation. If they went public with the news they had released Cougars They would have a angry public on their hands.

 

There was a cougar spotted her in Iowa City a few weeks back. A few reports with 1/2 dozen adults saw it, but the DNR refuses to acknowledge it was a cougar because they found no scat.

DNR...geesh.

 

Here in Virginia, along the Blue Ridge people have seen tracks/sign, and the animals themselves, yet the Dept of Game and Inland Fisheries is the same way. They maintain that there are "no cougar or mountain lion in Virginia." I asked a DGIF employee about this, and he replied that they need to have "verifiable record" of "numbers" within the state to change their status. He said that seeing one or two every now and then could be "migratory" cats. Maybe your state is the same way.

Is that crazy or what?!?

 

Same in Pennsylvania. I have relatives who have seen them firsthand up in the remote Northern parts of the state, yet officially they don't exist here. I would suspect there is a healthy population along much of the Appalachian mountain range.

 

I went up to my land in east central MN yesterday and found this picture on my trail cam. Is it a cougar? I thought it was a fox at first on my tiny LCD screen, but I don't think so now. The first shot is just of it's ears, the 2nd of the whole animal.

Seems the attachment system is broken right now, so I'll try to link to Flickr


whatisit1crop by Dillio187, on Flickr


whatisitcrop by Dillio187, on Flickr

I can send the fullsize pictures if anyone cares.

 

Bobcat, nice though.

 

that is a big cat though it might be a bobcat i can't make out the tail

 

you're right, it's a bobcat, MN DNR says no lynx south of the canadian border region.