DNR hunting for cougar

[LightningBugs Mum]

@hogrod wrote:

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

Yeah, that first picture especially gives me the shivers!

[cheezehead]

Ok, Feel free to jump in if this not right but here is the email I received with the details.:

This lion was hit between Eagle River and Woodruff, Wisconsin, by a

car. Fish and Game had to come and put him down. He charged at the Fish and Game guy in the process.
Look at his PAWS!.

I’d hate to have that thing hunting me for lunch!
I’m told this is true, but……..I have been proved wrong before.
So I just say “It is what it is!”

[Lostby7]

Is this story legit?
WOW LOOK AT THOSE PAWS!

[Timberline Echoes]

WE live in Eagle River and have never heard about one being killed… just some crossing roads or seen around the area… where is the info coming from?
TE

[cheezehead]

I just received it from a friend of mine. They said is was confirmed. So I dunno?

[Timberline Echoes]

When I googled it this was the most info I could find
http://dnr.wi.gov/org/land/er/mammals/cougar/photos.htm

I wonder if it is from Oregon or Montanna, if you look at the first photo and in the back room there are quite a few racks that look like possibly elk.

Just a thought.
TE

[cheezehead]

He could be a Taxidermist. He is wearing an apron and if you in the back room there seems to be a lot of antlers hanging.

[cheezehead]

LOL, Well the cat is from Prescott…..Arizona. Here is the link to the paper.

http://prescottdailycourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&subsectionID=1&articleID=51766

[Lostby7]

@cheezehead wrote:

He could be a Taxidermist. He is wearing an apron and if you in the back room there seems to be a lot of antlers hanging.

That was the impression I got as well.

[furfool]

I know two things about mountain lions. If attacked, fight like hell because they are not interested in anything fighting back. A friend of mine was told to do that when he worked in Washington state doing a spotted owl census. And, they make aweome sausage.

[labrat_wr]

Spotted Owl Sausage??????

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

[furfool]

Why do you think there are so few of them left? Jimmy Dean will vouch for it.

[PassingWind]

I’ve done a lot of remote hiking in the Anza-Borrego Desert of Southern California and often ran across fresh Mountain Lion tracks and old sheep and deer kills. The Mountain Lions really blend in well with the desert surroundings and utilize the mountains and large boulders to hide themselves well. There were a few times where I felt I was being stalked.

Mountain Lion Research in the desert

Since then this is all I’ve seen around here…LOL!!

[furfool]

I haven’t read anything in the paper, but on Wednesday or Thursday of last week, there was a report on the news about the cougar. Apparently the dna tests say that it was not a released “pet” and that it appears to be a natural wild cat. The dna is consistant with that found in wild cougars from South Dakota and the DNR figures that it migrated to Wisconsin. And, judging by the size of the tracks, they guess that it is a male.

[Toecutter]

Oh no, no , no , no…the DNR wouldn’t LIE about something like this, would they? Denying that cougars might be roaming the forests and fields of Wisconsin? There were reports of cougars in the 1800’s…why not now?

That’s just like this CWD thing…I think there’s something fishy there also…I’ve noticed, you don’t hear much about it on the news anymore…

Oh well…

Phil

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