Big cats in East TN

[kuger]

Kuger..Ya think ground squirrels are more problematic than tree squirrels when it comes to plague?


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To be completely honest I am not sure........we always monitor through ground squirrels......That is a GREAT question,it is carried in Fleas though....so...?

I will pm you a very good friend (ex girl friend )is a Disease specialist in your neighboring county...and used to live at USC

 

[Tnmountains]

I came across of a friend of mine named Jimmy. We used to have a cabin beside each other up off of the Tn River. I used to take him fishing all the time.
Anyways he a story teller and travels around the country. I happened to catch one of his tales about Cats In Tn on Youtube. His dad worked with me for 10 years.
Thought you might enjoy.

 

[Boatlode]

Well, since this thread has been resurrected I will say that there is a Florida panther that roams the beachs off A1A near Sebastian Inlet. I have not seen him, but I have seen his tracks and even some scat. A fellow I work with lives in one of the beachside communities there and has seen the big cat several times in his neighborhood. The first time he caught a glimpse of it he thought it was a deer until he saw the tail.

 

[squiggy]

BEAUTIFUL Animals!!

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[mtsheron]

There are larger cats in eastern TN. I just moved from western NC that borders your area and when they were constructing the I-26 connector into TN they were seen every so often on the rock tops and running up the sides of mountains there. I don't think they are the same size as cougars but are colored similar and about half the size or so from reports.

They are very elusive and sort of seeing one is like spotting Big Foot because there are folks that just don't believe they are in the area still or again.

So you were more than likely not seeing things. Never heard of one attacking a person but there is a first time I guess for anything.

 

[Robot]

I may have to apologize to my wife!

She was reading the "Little House on the Prairie" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder to our daughter when she read the part of Half Pint being afraid of the numerous "Black Panthers"

I questioned her that Black Panthers were not indigenous to "The Big Woods" in Wisconsin.

And she showed me:
Panther is another common name of Puma concolor, known to most people as mountain lion, cougar, or puma. There are documented cases of melanism in cougars and when this happens the animal is usually refered to as a black panther. The chance of seeing a black panther in Wisconsin would be extremely low. Melanism is very rare in cougars and cougars are very rare in Wisconsin
Black panther, a melanistic jaguar, leopard or cougar or puma. The black panther is a commonly used name for a black (melanistic) color variant of several of the cat family.

Although Black - jaguars and leopards were not found here the cougar or mountain lion was and is available in two colors "Brown" or "Black"

 

[Number9]

I may have to apologize to my wife!

She was reading the "Little House on the Prairie" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder to our daughter when she read the part of Half Pint being afraid of the numerous "Black Panthers"

I questioned her that Black Panthers were not indigenous to "The Big Woods" in Wisconsin.

And she showed me:
Panther is another common name of Puma concolor, known to most people as mountain lion, cougar, or puma. There are documented cases of melanism in cougars and when this happens the animal is usually refered to as a black panther. The chance of seeing a black panther in Wisconsin would be extremely low. Melanism is very rare in cougars and cougars are very rare in Wisconsin
Black panther, a melanistic jaguar, leopard or cougar or puma. The black panther is a commonly used name for a black (melanistic) color variant of several of the cat family.

Although Black - jaguars and leopards were not found here the cougar or mountain lion was and is available in two colors "Brown" or "Black"

Well, kuger will tell you that cougar and mountain lions are not melanistic.

Jaguars and leopards don't have to be born here.. to be here. So just because they're not native doesn't mean they can't be here!

I have about 250 large cats within 50 miles of my home... and I think they were missing a black one about 2 years ago!?

 

[Tnmountains]

https://www.tn.gov/twra/article/cougars-in-tennessee

Confirmed what we saw 10 years ago!

 

[Limitool]

I posted LONG AGO... about what I had seen here also (middle TN.). At the time I had NEVER seen a wild cougar in person ever (outside of a zoo). Without going way back and finding my post here the sighting I saw was sometime in the mid 90's. It ran across the dirt road I live on while I was driving and dove into the ravine below. I jumped out and looked.... but visually it was gone. This was very close to my home. It was within 200-300 yds. from home. I NEVER saw it again. But I know what I saw. I've been a hunter all my life and my mind doesn't "look" for illusions. I'm the first to be skeptical...

 

[Oregon Viking]

I posted LONG AGO... about what I had seen here also (middle TN.). At the time I had NEVER seen a wild cougar in person ever (outside of a zoo). Without going way back and finding my post here the sighting I saw was sometime in the mid 90's. It ran across the dirt road I live on while I was driving and dove into the ravine below. I jumped out and looked.... but visually it was gone. This was very close to my home. It was within 200-300 yds. from home. I NEVER saw it again. But I know what I saw. I've been a hunter all my life and my mind doesn't "look" for illusions. I'm the first to be skeptical...

We can spare a few if you want them...
The current cougar population in Oregon is estimated to be more than 6,200 as of October 2015.

 

[Limitool]

We can spare a few if you want them...
The current cougar population in Oregon is estimated to be more than 6,200 as of October 2015.

While I'm not saying 6000+ cougars isn't a lot of cougars... but for all the square miles in Oregon it doesn't seem like many. But they do need a WIDE range to roam.

 

[coinman123]

I would be scared to have cats around when metal detecting alone in the woods Last time we had mountain lions heye was in the late 1800's. We have loads of coyotes here in NH, which I hear all the time. Around here the coyotes are very shy, I rarely see them. I had no clue that there was a coyote in the woods behind my house until I set out a trail cam and caught one on it last week, along with a grey fox. We have started to get bobcats around here, though I have not seen them.

 

[T.C.]

A lot of those "cats" are being brought up from Southern Cal and are dumped out around Adin, Canby and Alturas, CA....you know up here in the boon docks. People in these areas are furious....that's why they practice the 3 S's....shoot, shovel and shut up!

We can spare a few if you want them...
The current cougar population in Oregon is estimated to be more than 6,200 as of October 2015.

 

[Limitool]

....that's why they practice the 3 S's....shoot, shovel and shut up!

Same goes for finding a "good" treasure... except the shoot comes later.

 

[Peyton Manning]

you chickens.. afraid of a coyote or mountain lion? they are not after you.

the only thing I fear when detecting is getting one of those ugly grubs on my finger!

 

[wainzoid]

And then there is this one. Shot in Idaho I believe.

 

[T.C.]

Yup, that's the one I posted a picture of over on AARC's Random Picture Thread, page 72. Creepy lookin'...