[QUOTE=Bruce Day;128531]
The way these big cats have been spreading, people may be seeing them back east.
Bruce, they are already here, despite the naysaying of the DNR's. I own an old farm in eastern Ohio and a patient who lives in that area showed me a picture of a mountain lion standing on her patio. A few days later, another patient who is a preacher told me one jumped out in front of him on a back road and crouched down in front of his car. Why would a preacher lie to me? He is also a bird hunter.
In Wheeling where I live, there have been some deer kills that were deemed to be cat kills. A patient and friend of mine who is a very proficient outdoorsmen had a mountain lion come past he and his son on the other side of the hill from the reported deer kills.
The Michigan DNR denied for years the presence of mt. lions in the UP, but now admitt to a growing population. Two were seen in Marquette County when I was there this year and was hunting in that county that day. I was hunting grouse around Republic in Marquette County 2 years ago when I ran into a gentleman hurrying out of the woods as white as a ghost--he claimed that a mt. lion had crouched down on the trail in front of him and had started stalking toward him, but then ran when his dog came running in.
They are here.
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