woodmort
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First I doubt there are mt. lions in VA. Second check the size of that animal's head compared to the body and then look at those OP's photos again. Oh yeah, find the strip down the Mt. lion's tail.
There are most certianly Mt lions in Va. LOL thanks for thinking I was being untruthful though.
Read this. then tell me there are not Mt lions in VA LOL http://www.btcent.com/CougarQuest.htm
There are not a breeding population of Mt. Lions in VA or WV or any place in the Northeastern part of the USA, they were exterminated before 1910. I am familiar with CougarQuest it is like the UFO sites except they use the occasional freed pet or transit animal to make the point that they exist in this area. Usually simple DNA samples prove that any captured or killed animal is from another population outside the area. As far as your post is concerned, what I find fault with is your statement "We have trapped and unfortunetly neighbors have killed mountain lions." I'd like to see some support for this because I doubt it unless you and your neighbors have moved into VA from some western state.
ETA This is from CougarQuest site: " In all fairness, there has simply not been enough "hard evidence" to unequivocally prove that Cougars do roam and are permanent residents in the Northern Shenandoah Valley and elsewhere in the East. " Enough said. Most sightings turn out to be something else--dogs, coyotes, bears, bobcats even large house cats. Imaginations get stretched sometimes--at one point there were reported sightings of an African Lion in the Scranton area of PA that was unfounded too. There just are no pictures or bodies to back up these sightings and tracks either vanish or turn out to be of something else.
First I doubt there are mt. lions in VA. Second check the size of that animal's head compared to the body and then look at those OP's photos again. Oh yeah, find the strip down the Mt. lion's tail.
There are most certianly Mt lions in Va. LOL thanks for thinking I was being untruthful though.
Read this. then tell me there are not Mt lions in VA LOL http://www.btcent.com/CougarQuest.htm
There are not a breeding population of Mt. Lions in VA or WV or any place in the Northeastern part of the USA, they were exterminated before 1910. I am familiar with CougarQuest it is like the UFO sites except they use the occasional freed pet or transit animal to make the point that they exist in this area. Usually simple DNA samples prove that any captured or killed animal is from another population outside the area. As far as your post is concerned, what I find fault with is your statement "We have trapped and unfortunetly neighbors have killed mountain lions." I'd like to see some support for this because I doubt it unless you and your neighbors have moved into VA from some western state.
ETA This is from CougarQuest site: " In all fairness, there has simply not been enough "hard evidence" to unequivocally prove that Cougars do roam and are permanent residents in the Northern Shenandoah Valley and elsewhere in the East. " Enough said. Most sightings turn out to be something else--dogs, coyotes, bears, bobcats even large house cats. Imaginations get stretched sometimes--at one point there were reported sightings of an African Lion in the Scranton area of PA that was unfounded too. There just are no pictures or bodies to back up these sightings and tracks either vanish or turn out to be of something else.
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