Note: this page has been updated as at Sept 15th, 2022 and republished (see update below). Are there mountain lions in Texas? Well, yes but what with continual human population growth, increased human activity (including road building), the horrible practice of sport hunting and decreased mountain lion habitat, I am sometimes surprised. That said, …
I recently received an interesting email from John Goodnough who lives in western Massachusetts, USA. His email is immediately below, word for word. John is a thoughtful person and in my view his conclusions are correct. My response to his email is set out below John’s. Hi, I live in western Massachusetts. I have …
by Ryan Rachman (North Carolina) I live in the state of North Carolina approximately 430 meters from the Peedee river. I own 68 acres of land right next to wildlife. I have been seeing a rather large cat species in my yard almost every night for the past 3 weeks. It looks like a …
There are quite a lot of people in the UK who think that there are big cats roaming around the countryside. One of these people is an “expert”, Frank Tunbridge. I don’t know what he is an expert in but he argues that there are big cats such as pumas and leopards in the …
It is unusual for a state department to become involved like this in taking the time and trouble to prove that a citizen of the state has got it wrong when they say they have seen a mountain lion. In this instance, a woman made a video of a cat walking along the top …
I have a theory which explains why some people are fearful of the domestic cat and the theory links a fear of the domestic cat with big cat sightings. A recent, well-publicised, big cat sighting took place very recently near Paris, France. You have probably have heard about it. A woman thought she had …
I’ll let the graphic do the talking: The NY state Department of Environmental Conservation wisely says that the sighted cat is a large domestic cat. They estimate the weight to be in the order of 20-30 lbs. However, the cat needn’t be especially large if the sighting is misassessed. Any decent sized domestic cat …
Unsurprisingly, I have not been able to find a photograph of a black mountain lion so I created one (or two). They are not that great but they give an idea of what a black puma might look like; not dense black but “melanistic”. Here is another attempt (this is better, I believe): The …
