The cougar debate rages on

[glen]

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.

[Gregger17]

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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[sabmgb]

maybe they take care of the yotes, but then I'd be afraid to sit in the bush.

[brent]

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.

When you say "long denied", how long are you talkng?

[MihajloSimsic]

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.

[Articcat]

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

[MihajloSimsic]

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.

[gibb]

There are no cougar in Ontario.

[fishfood]

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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