Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2007 17:29:08 -0000, thunder
wrote:

On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:36:38 -0400, HK wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/2wxdg3
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.

On Tue, 29 May 2007 04:09:27 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2007 17:29:08 -0000, thunder
wrote:

On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:36:38 -0400, HK wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/2wxdg3
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. :)

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 29 May 2007 04:09:27 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2007 17:29:08 -0000, thunder
wrote:

On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:36:38 -0400, HK wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/2wxdg3
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!

Don White wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 29 May 2007 04:09:27 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2007 17:29:08 -0000, thunder
wrote:

On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:36:38 -0400, HK wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/2wxdg3
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.

"HK" wrote in message
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Don White wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 29 May 2007 04:09:27 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2007 17:29:08 -0000, thunder
wrote:

On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:36:38 -0400, HK wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/2wxdg3
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??

Don White wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
. ..
Don White wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 29 May 2007 04:09:27 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2007 17:29:08 -0000, thunder
wrote:

On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:36:38 -0400, HK wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/2wxdg3
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.

HK wrote:
Don White wrote:
"HK" wrote in message
. ..
Don White wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 29 May 2007 04:09:27 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2007 17:29:08 -0000, thunder

wrote:

On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:36:38 -0400, HK wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/2wxdg3
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.

Hopefully, you have stopped feeding the wildlife.

On May 29, 6:12?am, HK wrote:

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.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

In the eastside suburbs of Seattle there are frequent reports of bears
wandering through suburban neighborhoods. About a week or so ago, one
of the elementary schools over there was "locked down" for an
afternoon after a bear was seen on or near the playground where the
kids take recess.

Fewer people hunt these wild animals these days and we have inserted
cul-de-sacs and McMansions into many areas that were formerly remote
enough to provide habitat for bears, cougars (also seen with some
regularity in the suburbs), coyotes, etc. The wild animals aren't
suddenly coming to town, town has instead gone out to them. With
regular exposure to humans many of the species will begin to lose
their natural fear of people and begin foraging through garbage cans,
etc.

If you still have that housecat, Harry, keep him locked up. The big
cats find little cats a very tasty snack. Locally, the cougars often
haul the little cats up into the trees to eat them.

Chuck Gould wrote:
On May 29, 6:12?am, HK wrote:

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.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

In the eastside suburbs of Seattle there are frequent reports of bears
wandering through suburban neighborhoods. About a week or so ago, one
of the elementary schools over there was "locked down" for an
afternoon after a bear was seen on or near the playground where the
kids take recess.

Fewer people hunt these wild animals these days and we have inserted
cul-de-sacs and McMansions into many areas that were formerly remote
enough to provide habitat for bears, cougars (also seen with some
regularity in the suburbs), coyotes, etc. The wild animals aren't
suddenly coming to town, town has instead gone out to them. With
regular exposure to humans many of the species will begin to lose
their natural fear of people and begin foraging through garbage cans,
etc.

If you still have that housecat, Harry, keep him locked up. The big
cats find little cats a very tasty snack. Locally, the cougars often
haul the little cats up into the trees to eat them.



Our pets never ever go outside, unless they are being taken to the vet.

We adopted this fellow last fall. He was just a small kitten then, the
son of a stray we had tried to adopt earlier. Anyway, after I caught him
and took him to the vet for a checkover, he decided indoor life was more
to his liking. Now, if I even open the screen door to step outside, he
runs like an antelope away from the opening. There's no way he wants the
wandering life again.

http://tinyurl.com/2krsnu

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Animals................... wife just paid $100.00 for a good pair of
thinning shears for our Springer Spaniel.
Next will be a $200.00 motorized clipper plus a good pair of straight
shears.
Should eventually save us money on grooming @ $50.00 a pop.