Saw a Black Bobcat on Chistmas Day! Brodheadsville~ (houses, buy)

[wanneroo]

Originally Posted by Tankarma

Hey, I hope I see a cougar. From my window.

I don't think you'll have to worry about it for a few decades at best, if ever. Mostly out west they only come out at night and avoid humans in most cases.

[Tankarma]

Oh, ok.

[Summering]

Originally Posted by wanneroo

I can because there is no evidence to suggest such.

I'd love for you to sit with my daughters a spell.....perhaps when I return....Just to enlighten you.....
Would you be around in April.....just before dark.

[wanneroo]

Originally Posted by Summering

I'd love for you to sit with my daughters a spell.....perhaps when I return....Just to enlighten you.....
Would you be around in April.....just before dark.

No because

1. there are no black cougars in nature, fact
2. there are no cougars that have pointy ears, fact
3. there are no cougars in PA now and haven't been for nearly 100 years despite much effort to find such on the part of private citizens and the government, fact
4. Cougars weigh up to 200 pounds and are not hard to find in nature where they actually exist out west, fact. They leave plenty of sign in their wake, scat piles, turds, dead half eaten carcasses, paw prints, etc. None of that has been found in PA despite PA being a more urbanized state than many states out west.

No I don't want to hear anymore about their story because by April it will have grown into a Lion. Remember your story started out as a 25 pound bobcat and has now evolved into a 200 pound black cougar. It doesn't take much imagination to see where this is going.

The reason I have stood in opposition to all this nonsense is because people start out with these whispering campaigns gradually changing their story and then everyone else chimes in with their half second story and pretty soon you have people believing bigfoot, lions and unicorns are running amok in the woods of PA.

I think it's better to stick with facts than fairy tales.

[Jungle George]

Originally Posted by wanneroo

The reason I have stood in opposition to all this nonsense is because people start out with these whispering campaigns gradually changing their story and then everyone else chimes in with their half second story and pretty soon you have people believing bigfoot, lions and unicorns are running amok in the woods of PA.

I think it's better to stick with facts than fairy tales.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsGP6HosVlA

[Krisps]

I'd agree that most cat sightings are probably bobcats, but I'll always leave open the possibility that there is a mt. lion population in PA. I've never understood how a state, especially in the 1800s, can claim that every last mt. lion (or any other animal) has been killed. Where is the evidence? And the fact that animals don't recognize state or national borders and that PA has, especially in the north, lots of densely wooded, remote, and rugged land with great food and habitat for mt. lions, it's no stretch to at least consider the possibility of a PA mt. lion population. If you link this to bigfoot well I guess there's no point in discussing any further.

[kinpa]

Wanneroo up in waymart there is a family of them, friends have taken pictures. I am speaking of the regular cougar/mtn lion. I have seen Mountain lions/cougars also, so you are mistaken.
My Husband and his father saw a black panther on rt 447 going across his driveway in 85. He said it was about 9 feet long and amazingly fast. (very long tail.) That is near the town of panther. If you go to the uplander in Blueberry hill you can see a picture of a female mtn lion/cougar that was caught in the village of panther. My husband was there for that as well. These are facts dear, not fairly tales.

[Jungle George]

Originally Posted by wanneroo

I think it's better to stick with facts than fairy tales.

So coming from someone who "believes in God" (though there's no REAL "proof" or "facts") & who believes in a "gay agenda" making the rounds, the possibility of mountain lions or cougars or panthers being seen in Pa is a "fairy tale" even though there's CONFIRMED SCIENTIFIC PROOF of large cats within a 300 mile radius??

Pa must have electric fencing around it's borders that keeps the cats out!!!

The Cougar Network - Using Science to Understand Cougar Ecology

[DavidWebb]

Must be something in the tea she drinks...

[wanneroo]

Originally Posted by Jungle George

So coming from someone who "believes in God" (though there's no REAL "proof" or "facts") & who believes in a "gay agenda" making the rounds, the possibility of mountain lions or cougars or panthers being seen in Pa is a "fairy tale" even though there's CONFIRMED SCIENTIFIC PROOF of large cats within a 300 mile radius??

Pa must have electric fencing around it's borders that keeps the cats out!!!

The Cougar Network - Using Science to Understand Cougar Ecology

And yet in the link you post, no confirmations for PA.