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What’s the debate?
There isn't any more debate with photographic and first person sightings all over the province. I really question why the OMNRF steadfastly and vehemently continue to deny the fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by 73hunter
I don't think MNRF has denied they are present, the question is are they natural or the product of excapees?
Endangered ... Yes, but they do exist. Much like Bobcats, another elusive kitty. May as well toss in Badgers as another hard to spot critter.
We don't need no stinking badgersQuote:
Originally Posted by longpointer
https://youtu.be/XT8hE7_8BCY
The MNR has long denied their existence. It's only been in the last few years they've dropped this. As far as natural or escapees - there have been collared western cougars wandering as far east as Maine... The most likely source of an Ontario cougar is a wayward western cougar.Quote:
Originally Posted by redd foxx
The MNRF has changed the status from Extirpated (meaning the nuimbers are too low to count) to Endangered:
Status
Endangered
“Endangered” means the species lives in the wild in Ontario but is facing imminent extinction or extirpation.
https://www.ontario.ca/page/mountain-lion-cougar
They had tracked one from the UP in Michigan accross Ontario about 30 years ago that was witnessed in Campbellville Ontario and along the Niagara peninsula.
Interesting read Marker. Doesn't sound like any denials to me. Thanks for posting that. :)
Well fellas, I’ll add my name to the list of those to have seen cougars in Ontario…..this afternoon with my son and my parents on a boat cruise up the South Magnetawan river ….saw one walking along a railway and across the railway bridge. We were a few hundred yards away but my son had the binoculars and saw it clearly. From afar we could tell by its walk that it wasn’t a dog or deer…obviously a surprise to see it and especially at mid-afternoon, but it was a remote area
Mid afternoon eh. Maybe traveling and looking for a place to call home.
I believe one of the reasons the cat population is not increasing is southern Ontario is not very good habitat.
I don’t know, a free meal is a free meal. Look how the coyotes cruz around in urban areas now.
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maybe they take care of the yotes, but then I'd be afraid to sit in the bush.
When you say "long denied", how long are you talkng?Quote:
Originally Posted by werner.reiche
Debate? There's been photographic evidence of them every year for the past two decades all over Ontario. There's sure as hell way more Mountain lions than there are feral pigs that the MNR is up in arms about.
Debate? There's been photographic evidence of them every year for the past two decades all over Ontario. There's sure as hell way more Mountain lions than there are feral pigs that the MNR is up in arms about.
I totally agree with you, when we hunted the Thunder Bay area around the Minnesota border we would see them and their tracks and that was around 1995 but the MNR back then told us there waasn't any around i wish we had cell phones back then as some of the ones we saw were around 25 to 50 yards away
In that case if they technically weren't there you should have made them officially not there ;). I hear mountain lion meat is great.Quote:
Originally Posted by Articcat
There are no cougar in Ontario.
More evidence of Ontario cougars in the past year than the past 200 years of big foot reports lol.
All jokes aside I saw one about 5 ,6 years ago around dulose point off hwy48. .
My grandpa had a mount done of an Ontario bobcat found on the side of the rd in trout creek. The mnr said it was impossible an refused its existence untill they met and got the ok to keep it. It's mounted full body reaching for a partridge.
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