Here kitty, kitty, ...

[North Pack]

http://www.startribune.com/video/78696767.html?elr=KArks:DCiUtEia_nDaycUiacyKUUr

[shadow]

Wow but I'm not surprised though with the critters moving around in town, probably was once their old stomping ground's. That would be a big surprise for me though doing one of my night patrol hunt's and run into this cat.  :0 Ed

[Big_Bill]

You and me both Ed!!!!!

Who is huntin who ??

Hey Ed, stop breathin on my neck ! ,,,,,Ed...Ed?.....Hey Ed !!!!

Bill

[lil'feeby]

hey shadow i imagine that lil kitty would have a nice workout trying to catch you, after all those cups of java.

[shadow]

LOL brother's that Kitty would have me running like a man on fire and there wouldn't be no stop drop and rolling, put em down and pick em up hehe. Ed

[Magnum]

Wow I have wondered what I would do:) I think Ed said it all. Lol  Tony

[Tn.Reb]

I bet i could outrun it!!!!!!







I'll have a clear path to run he will have brown stuff up to his knee's to run in !!!!   hehehehehe

[tunaboat]

I would use the buddy system if I were hunting in that neighborhood.  That way you just have to make sure you can outrun your buddy!

[North Pack]

They can run up to 35 mph but only for a few hundred yards, their preferred method of hunting is to creep up as close to their prey as possible and launch a short spring attack. Panthers do become used to man-made noises and frequently cross roads

[gamo2hammerli]

I don`t think our little "bb" guns going to stop them......

[airiscool]

I had one run in front of me 5:30 one morning. When I got back home, I called the NYS DEC to report it and they told me  it couldn't be a real wild one, must have been a captive that got loose !!!! Then they told me, Oh by the way, a NYS Trooper reported also seeing one 15 miles west of there.  

Didn't know central NY had so many "captive" mountain lions getting  loose. Must be some poorly built cages around here !!!!!

Paul.

[North Pack]

True story, ... back in the third week in February 2006 I was just starting to snowshoe into an area (Pack Monadonck) in SW New Hampshire. (I remember it well) - There's a "seasonal road" that's closed for the winter in late October, - when I saw the LARGE cat tracks, (wider than long = cat) in the snow. It had snowed all night, and was cloudy, no sun to "widen" things. I could put my fist in one, and did, - and could still move it sideways "about another" inch. These tracks went of into the woods, and back onto the road for quite a ways. We DON'T have cats here that leave those kind of tracks. I ran into a middle aged couple coming down the road from the peak, - and the first thing the guy says (instead of hi etc) is - "have you seen those ******G tracks? - "YES" I have!!! ... A few weeks later I mentioned it to a state worker over there, - he said, "yeah, it could have been a lion. We have a few moving through from time to time, - but not a breeding population." ... Never met a state worker that honest about lions. ... I figured if I dragged it in by the tail up at Concord, - they'd deny it and say it was an escaped pet.

[RedFeather]

Gives a new meaning to Gamo "Big Cat". On the Discovery channel there's a show called Monster Quest where they explore weird sightings, legends, etc. It's a bit better than Ghost Hunters since these guys employ professionals and use real surveillance equipment, etc. There was a story about large black cats being spotted in the Catskills where no mountain lions have been seen for years. They concluded it was most likely a pair of black leopards which had been exotic pets and released. Still up there, so far as anybody knows.