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HK

Don White wrote:
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Don White wrote:
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On Tue, 29 May 2007 04:09:27 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
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Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2007 17:29:08 -0000, thunder
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On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:36:38 -0400, HK wrote:

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Was that picture taken in the east? Every year, there seem to be
more and more sightings. Enough that I'm starting to wonder if they
aren't making a return. I personally know someone who swears he has
seen one here in NJ. He's a pretty reliable type, but . . . I
haven't seen any confirmations.
There have been confirmed sightings in my woods and around the
neighboring farms.

They are mountain lions - not cougars. Confirmed by professional
trackers.

Fisher cats are also making a huge come back in this area.
Cougars, mountain lines and puma's are names for the same animal.
Tom,
If you are talking about seeing a mountain lion (also known as a
cougar,
puma, catamount, panther and other names) it is only native in the
western area of the US and Florida in the east. If it was seen in the
NE it must have escaped from captivity.
I've got the god damned picture sitting right on my god damned wall of
the god damned mountain liion walking through the god damned woods of
my god damned property taken by a god damned professional god damned
tracker who told me that this isn't the only god damned mountain god
damned lion in New England and that this is a god damned mountain lion
and not a god damned cougar.

Damn it. :)
Might be best if you deep six Waylon Smithers...your overall welfare will
be the better for it!

Smithers is easy. He wants to post here, but has nothing original to say.
So he uses a search engine to find some "nugget" that might be relevant to
a discussion and then posts it as if it came from his own knowledge base.
That's one, but only one, of the reasons I deep-sixed him eons ago.

My wife was out working in the "edge of the primeval forest" part of her
planting areas yesterday, and was startled by a "huge" rustling in the
large wild bushes and trees about 10 feet away from where she was digging.
She never saw the critter, but says the fuss was too large to be one of
the neighborhood raccoons, and besides, they are too stealthy.
There actually have been reports of small bears in our neck of the woods,
so to speak, but I have no idea what it was, either. There aren't any
feral dogs around here.

No chance on running into a protective mother bear this time of year??

I hope not.