US Officials Declare Eastern Cougar Extinct

Jodie said:
Oh well, it has no relevance to my son's experience. So would you say the DNA evidence from the dead cougar shot in the Atlanta Metro area was a hoax?
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Normally it would be funny to watch someone flailing like this.
 
I know what I saw, there is proof that it's possible for cougar's to be in SC. I'm not seeing any problem on my end of things.
 
When real cougars appear in the East they get dead. That is a problem for the thousands and thousands of people claiming to be eyewitnesses for many decades throughout the East. You seem unable to grasp the significance of this.
 
Not only did a cougar drift a thousand miles from his home range, but he ended up on Edisto, and Island with few entry points, and just happened to be sighted by someone who also happened to have a previous cougar story... Very likely.
 
William Parcher said:
When real cougars appear in the East they get dead. That is a problem for the thousands and thousands of people claiming to be eyewitnesses for many decades throughout the East. You seem unable to grasp the significance of this.
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No, what you seem to be unable to grasp is that not everything behaves according to set rules. For every cougar that was hit by a car, how many made it across freeways to end up, say for example, 1500 hundred miles away from home in Connecticut? The possibility is there for one to be in SC, if only transient.

Some people do lie. I will say some people reporting these black panther and cougar sightings are a result of misidentification simply because most people spend the vast majority of their time in the house. I'm not one of those people and I happen to live in an area on a river that has abundant wild life that I've been watching for years. I know what I saw and I'm not lying.
 
Maurice Ledifficile said:
Not only did a cougar drift a thousand miles from his home range, but he ended up on Edisto, and Island with few entry points, and just happened to be sighted by someone who also happened to have a previous cougar story... Very likely.
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Those are tidal islands, when the tide is out you can walk across most of these areas from island to island. There are also many bridges to accommodate traffic, traffic is lighter at night, cougars tend to be crepuscular and nocturnal. I figure the cougar followed the coast line to end up that far north. The shore line is riddled with chain islands, salt water swamps, it wouldn't be impossible.

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/byways/byways/73595/maps
 
Jodie said:
Those are tidal islands, when the tide is out you can walk across most of these areas from island to island. There are also many bridges to accommodate traffic, traffic is lighter at night, cougars tend to be crepuscular and nocturnal. I figure the cougar followed the coast line to end up that far north. The shore line is riddled with chain islands, salt water swamps, it wouldn't be impossible.

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/byways/byways/73595/maps
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Not physically impossible. It just didn't happen.
 
Jodie said:
Like I've said before, I'm tech NO. I don't have the ability to trace a photo posted on the internet back to the source. There are plenty but I have no way to verify what I'm looking at.
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Jodie, I right clicked on your avatar image and got 923 results in .98 seconds.
All humor, funny, silly animal pics.
One had the "not my monkey, not my circus" meme on the same photo.

It was easy, maybe you can try to right click on the image, and then select
"Search Google for this image"?

If you don't trace it back to its source, you will certainly get enough background
on the image to make a decision about its credibility.

So far, what you have posted in the way of boosting your claim of cougars
in South Carolina is not convincing to me.

The experts quoted seem to agree that there is no evidence, and the
people with sightings say "I know what I saw."
 
Jodie said:
I know what I saw, there is proof that it's possible for cougar's to be in SC. I'm not seeing any problem on my end of things.
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Well, it's possible for a cougar to be in my backyard, too.

I just can't seem to find one there, though.

The thick grass doesn't show tracks well, either.

So far, the cat has been avoiding the game cam, too.

Sneaky Pete, I call him.

My tribute to Pete Puma.
 
I believe there is solid evidence of Wolverines as far east as Minnesota, which is pretty far outside of their range.

It was almost certainly a misidentification however it is barely possible that it might have been a cougar.

Of note, I have seen black bears in the Great Dismal Swamp. The ones I have seen are really small and one might consider them to be a dog at first.
 
snoop_doxie said:
Jodie, I right clicked on your avatar image and got 923 results in .98 seconds.
All humor, funny, silly animal pics.
One had the "not my monkey, not my circus" meme on the same photo.

It was easy, maybe you can try to right click on the image, and then select
"Search Google for this image"?

If you don't trace it back to its source, you will certainly get enough background
on the image to make a decision about its credibility.

So far, what you have posted in the way of boosting your claim of cougars
in South Carolina is not convincing to me.

The experts quoted seem to agree that there is no evidence, and the
people with sightings say "I know what I saw."
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Thank you Dixie, I'll remember that. That's fine if you don't believe me, I realize that cougars don't officially exist here.
 
Desert Fox said:
I believe there is solid evidence of Wolverines as far east as Minnesota, which is pretty far outside of their range.

It was almost certainly a misidentification however it is barely possible that it might have been a cougar.

Of note, I have seen black bears in the Great Dismal Swamp. The ones I have seen are really small and one might consider them to be a dog at first.
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The only reason I could think of why a cougar would range that far is because it was looking for a mate. If it doesn't find a mate it might keep traveling as long as food is available.
 
Jodie said:
The only reason I could think of why a cougar would range that far is because it was looking for a mate. If it doesn't find a mate it might keep traveling as long as food is available.
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I have a simple question for you. . . .Why don't you think is is a Florida Panther?
A lost Florida Panther in South Carolina makes a lot more sense if there is something to the sighting.
 
I use the word cougar to mean a tan cat like a mountain lion or puma. I looked at the picture for the Florida Panther and it looked like a cougar to me. I'm assuming that's where it came from, that's what the SC DNR guy told my friend.
 
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