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Cougars in Thunder Bay!
Topic Started: Jun 24 2014, 07:28 PM (505 Views)
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I am not talking about the OMG what happen last night kind. Rumours have been flying around my workplace that a cougar has eaten a 600 lbs cow in the public pasture outside of Kakabeka Falls. The MNR has seen the kill site and supposedly has confirmed it was not wolves or a bear. The tracks indicate a large cat with young. According to cows owner it was a pure neck attack when he initially found the dead cow and witnessed a cougar leaving the scene. Has anybody else heard anything. I never seen one or a track in Ontario. Not saying they don't exist but I am on the rd in the bush at least three days a week. And believe me I look at every damn track on the roads. But some reliable people say they have seen them. One time a truck driver said he saw one on 527 by the mine. i looked everywhere for tracks but eventually i saw big lynx tracks and a few days later i saw him on the same rock. So I believe most sightings are big male lynx in there summer coats. But that's just IMOP. I just need some physical evidence myself. One day. I have seen two wolverines and tracks but these damn cats elude me. One day I'll bang one....
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They are here, no doubt in my mind. We are not talking about bigfoot here, cougars are real and in Canada already so it is no big deal to think a few migrated to Ontario the last 20 years.
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Interesting.
SIT ON YOUR ASS AND GLASS, AND DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK...
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I call Bull shit sorry
another domestic let loose at best
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Saw one four years ago West of Savant Lake south of HWY 516, No more then 80 yards away.Cougar not a Lynx.
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I have heard stories of cougars down are way these animals are free roaming
there is nothing stopping them from ending up in unusual places
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http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Photos+Quebec+cougars/5483280/story.html

They are right across the border in Quebec too.
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there are stories of cougar in the wainfleet bog here in southern ont.

http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/nd07/feature_wildlife.asp
Edited by Mike Warren, Jun 25 2014, 08:01 AM.
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Mike Warren
Jun 25 2014, 07:59 AM
there are stories of cougar in the wainfleet bog here in southern ont.

http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/nd07/feature_wildlife.asp
There's your proof. But the naysayers will say someone planted the cat scat there.
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The scat proves the cat’s back. Confirmation came in May, but the story started in March 2004, when Anne Yagi, a biologist with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, was inspecting a carnivore kill site in the Wainfleet Bog, near Port Colborne, Ont. She was convinced it wasn’t the work of a coyote, so she collected fur and scat samples and handed one promising piece of feces over to Stuart Kenn, president of the Ontario Puma Foundation. It turned out to be the most significant proof, in a field of frustratingly anecdotal evidence, that the cougar (Puma concolor) is reoccupying parts of its former eastern habitat.
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Well if any cougar let go or wild that cant be good a buddy of mine has pics of a tree from the spring
from Simcoe ont and cant tell if it's from a big buck or a cougar i will email him and ask him for the pics and see
what you guys think
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Mike Warren
Jun 25 2014, 07:59 AM
there are stories of cougar in the wainfleet bog here in southern ont.

http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/nd07/feature_wildlife.asp
Thanks for posting this. I live a few minutes from Wainfleet and have heard of numerous sightings here. But I still find it odd that with the heavy hunting pressure here, that no one has gotten a trail cam photo yet. It's like bigfoot for southern Ontario. lol
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Pictures please When I see a trail cam pic from a reliable source, I'll believe it.
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have a look tell me what you think what is this from


http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l337/mikew115/Hunting/Feces_zps8154523f.jpg

http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l337/mikew115/Hunting/Clawmarks3_zps651cbb45.jpg


http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l337/mikew115/Hunting/Clawmarks2_zps145e411f.jpg


http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l337/mikew115/Hunting/clawmarks_zpsca9cddff.jpg
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I think if the scat was taken to MNR they might be able to do DNA test to determine whether it is/was a cougar
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