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US Officials Declare Eastern Cougar Extinct

Jodie said:
Yeah, they were old snags, I assume it was looking for termites or grubs.
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This brought back a good memory.

This one time, in college, way up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I went to spend a weekend with my roomate and his local friends, at his Deer-Camp, in Mass City, Michigan. We partied a bit. And at one point, I went out side to use the restroom errr, tree.

I walked fairly far away, the snow was probably 2 feet deep in the woods, and as I was facilitating the deed, I heard a large snort. I don't know what it was, probably a deer, now looking back. But as I quickly made my way back to the cabin, I decided to act really scared, and Yelled 'Do you have Moose over here?' they replied that once in a while one would come down from the herd established near Marquette. I said, "Well, i think there is one out there, and it's smashing trees with it's antlers, and stomping around." Anyway, my point is, that every retelling I've ever had of that story I seemed to add another attribute, I haven't told the story in 10 years probably, so it is not fresh in my mind. But, what was probably a deer, turned into a Moose, and that turned into a Moose with antlers big enough to knock over small trees, and the footprints were as big as dinner plates, and it stomped around, pacing outside the cabin waiting for us to come back out. I'll bet the same thing happens all the time, except with Cougars errr, Housecats.
 
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It might with the common folk that rarely spend any time outdoors but not with me.
 
Jodie said:
It might with the common folk that rarely spend any time outdoors but not with me.
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Can you explain this in a better way? It makes no sense.

Do you mean you are an 'Uncommon' person who regularly spends time outdoors?
 
I spend a lot of time outdoors fishing on the river just below my house. I happen to live in an area with a large variety of wildlife that I see on a regular basis. I am not likely to mistake a housecat/fox/coyote for a cougar.
 
Jodie said:
I spend a lot of time outdoors fishing on the river just below my house. I happen to live in an area with a large variety of wildlife that I see on a regular basis. I am not likely to mistake a housecat/fox/coyote for a cougar.
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http://www.damnedct.com/mountain-lions-litchfield-hills

Neither was this guy.
As for what people have seen, he thinks people either mistake bobcats or coyotes for mountain lions. He mentioned that once while on patrol, he thought he had seen mountain lion cross the road in front of him. When he stopped to investigate, however, he discovered it had only been coyote. Other than that, in all his years in the woods and forests of Connecticut, he has never seen one. If an experienced outdoorsman and veteran officer (who is a trained observer) like Officer Hilli can misidentify a creature from a quick look like that, then it's very possible that an untrained observer might also make a similar mistake.
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The Shrike said:
Knocking down trees? Sounds pretty squatchy.
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Always the diplomat.

It isn't the adjective that came to my mind, as you may well imagine.

Also, in a fabulist dictionary, "a lot of time" means "never". But we have such a backlog of claims to prove up on here, don't we? Is DNR still closed or is that cougar investigation report on its way? The picture?
 
They aren't closed, but they haven't responded yet, there is still too much damage for much of anything to get done unless it's a necessity right now. I'm sure my cougar sighting isn't a top priority at the moment.
 
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http://www.damnedct.com/mountain-lions-litchfield-hills

Neither was this guy.
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Officer Hilli might have been a tree stand hunter, that doesn't make him an experienced outdoorsman. Nor does the distinction of "veteran officer" IMO.

The point I was making was that I see foxes around my home all the time. I used to show cats and coyotes hang around the dumpster at work. They are very familiar. I'm not going to mistake any of these for a cougar during daylight hours with a direct view from above the chase.
 
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Jodie said:
Officer Hilli might have been a tree stand hunter, that doesn't make him an experienced outdoorsman. Nor does the distinction of "veteran officer" IMO.

The point I was making was that I see foxes around my home all the time. I used to show cats and coyotes hang around the dumpster at work. They are very familiar. I'm not going to mistake any of these for a cougar during daylight hours with a direct view from above the chase.
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Yes, yes, looking at **** while you're on your porch, hotboxing a smoke trumps the observations of a wildlife professional all right. As reasonable as, I dunno, fantasizing footie was stealing butts out of your ashtray there.
 
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Resume said:
Yes, yes, looking at **** while you're on your porch, hotboxing a smoke trumps the observations of a wildlife professional all right. As reasonable as, I dunno, fantasizing footie was stealing butts out of your ashtray there.
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In this case, it does, since there was more than one of us who saw it happen.

What is hotboxing?
 
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Jodie said:
In this case, it does, since there was more than one of us who saw it happen.
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As I've noted before, there was more than one of us that saw a red three-foot fisher cat, that wasn't a three-foot fisher cat. And there were a bunch of folks that saw an African lion in Milwaukee. A lion that was no bigger than a housecat.
 
And your sighting has variables that weren't present in my experience. I've only met a handful of people from Milwaukee in my lifetime, and based on that limited experience, I'm not shocked that they thought a house cat was an African lion.
 
Jodie said:
And your sighting has variables that weren't present in my experience. I've only met a handful of people from Milwaukee in my lifetime, and based on that limited experience, I'm not shocked that they thought a house cat was an African lion.
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And I am not surprised that a fabulist imagined she saw a cougar where they do not exist, fantasized she was a reincarnate personality at an Abe Lincoln meet-n-greet, and refuses to recognize the common phenomenon of visitation dreams.
 
Oh yeah sure, those other people might not be too bright, but me I'm impervious to the sort of misperceptions that can afflict, you know, all other humans.

There's no bigfoot, but there's no BLAARGing. People really do believe the stuff they claim, they're just wrong about it.

I'm not wrong about mine though. I know what I saw.

I'm outdoorsy, 'cause I go fishing and I'm a smoker. I don't bother myself to know details of things like the range of mountain lions or what fishers are, but I know my wild critters for sure. I used to show cats, after all. So unlike all those other people to really do believe that they've seen something fantastic even though they're wrong about it, I saw something fantastic but I can't be wrong about it because I didn't know it was fantastic and I, you know, know what I saw.
 
Boy, you sure are sore about those posts I dug up in the BLAARG'ing thread aren't you?
 
Resume said:
Yes, yes, looking at **** while you're on your porch, hotboxing a smoke trumps the observations of a wildlife professional all right. As reasonable as, I dunno, fantasizing footie was stealing butts out of your ashtray there.
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LMAO....I had forgotten all about that malarkey!
Please someone dig that up and post some of that conversation in the appropriate thread.
 
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