DNR hunting for cougar

[hogrod]

This website has some maps of sighting locations and other info.

http://www.uwsp.edu/wildlife/carnivore/index.htm

[LightningBugs Mum]

@Timberline Echoes wrote:

There has been one spotted in the Rhinelander area off and on for the past few years. Our friend who is a county deputy had it jump right in front of his squad car. It’s also been in the paper and on the news up here.
TE

Those silly people. It’s obviously a hodag.

[greyhounder]

Okay, but the real question is…if this animal showed up on my porch, would I try to catch it too?

😆

Bec

[Lostby7]

@greyhounder wrote:

Okay, but the real question is…if this animal showed up on my porch, would I try to catch it too?

😆

Bec

Which beast, the Hodag the cougar or Big Foot?
I think you should count yourself lucky that la Chupacabra doesn’t come knocking.

Also there is another article in todays Milwaukee journal about the cougar sighting….
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=711109

[Trekkin and Birdin]

The comments about this being the first confirmed one make me wonder…..what happened to our plaster casts? They confirmed those, at least verbally.

And to think I was caching in that region, in the woods, by myself, a week ago. I never see anything cool, it almost always runs and hides.

Except for all the wolves.

[greyhounder]

Apparently there has been photographic evidence of a cougar in the Milton area (around Storrs Lake).

Bec

[GrouseTales]

I’ve been a little concerned about the increase of Chupacabra sightings.

Hopefully our colder climate will prevent the expansion of this horrible creature 🙂

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

I still think it may have been Hogzilla!

[LMcGisme]

Are you sure it wasn’t Wisconsin’s Dogman, featured recently on History Channel’s Monster Quest? Dogman

[MikeB]

@Timberline Echoes wrote:

Does that mean if we walk backwards were safe?
TE

No, but if your walk is silly enough, you might throw him off. A little fish-slapping may be advised. Definitely do not attempt to defend yourself with a banana.

[cheezehead]

@greyhounder wrote:

Okay, but the real question is…if this animal showed up on my porch, would I try to catch it too?

😆

Bec

Ya mean if something like this were to happen?

I do not know too much info. All the email said was the pics were taken by a guy in Spooner, WI and that the cat was watching his kids play on the floor. And just to think that one of these cats has been seen just down the road from me! 😯

[hogrod]

@cheezehead wrote:

All the email said was the pics were taken by a guy in Spooner, WI and that the cat was watching his kids play on the floor.

If you check out the link I posted at the top of this page there is a section of Hoaxes, and these pictures are shown. According to this site these photos were actually taken outside Lander, Wyoming in 2005.

http://www.uwsp.edu/wildlife/carnivore/Hoaxes/Hoaxes.htm

[cheezehead]

Well now I feel real STUPID!!! 😳 😳 😳 Sorry never saw your post!

[hogrod]

@cheezehead wrote:

Well now I feel real STUPID!!! 😳 😳 😳 Sorry never saw your post!

Don’t feel bad, these type of emails go around allot. I remember a year or two ago there being an email circulating(with photo) of about a 6ft rattle snake that was caught at badger ammunition near Devils Lake State Park. Turns out the photo was really taken somewhere in Texas.

Even if it wasn’t in Wisconsin it would still be pretty scary to have a big cat looking in your patio doors!

[Team B Squared]

I received that same email twice within a week last year. One of the emails said those pics were taken somewhere in Wisconsin and the other said that it was taken in Laingsburg, MI (downstate). I had to laugh at that. I used snopes to find out that they were taken in Wyoming.

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