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If a cougar was going to live in Southern Wi the hills of grant county would be where I'd guess one to be. Been some legit cougar sightings around the state lately.
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Interesting side note. At my daughters hunter safety class this fall, the DNR warden made a point of saying wolves and cougars were not non-native invasive species and could not be shot. 
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its a frikkin house cat.. it aint that far from the fence.. cmon people...
AND thats REALLY a unicorn in the pic.. his horn just froze off.. +1 Look at the grass/brush to the right and left behind the fence. The land rises. That cat is right beyond the fence and unless those are real tall fence posts and about 4' in between the wires....
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Domestic shorthair cat, warden was right tail is way too short for a Cougar. Nice optical illusion though.
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Interesting side note. At my daughters hunter safety class this fall, the DNR warden made a point of saying wolves and cougars were not non-native invasive species and could not be shot. That is correct...you can shoot them in Iowa
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Domestic shorthair cat, warden was right tail is way too short for a Cougar. Nice optical illusion though. What about an accident? Maybe the cougar lost part of its tail when it encountered a coyote, wolf or bear when it was young. Maybe it's tail got caught in a trap. Maybe it bit part of it off while chasing it's own tail.
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Friggin' house cat...some people just want to believe...
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If a cougar was going to live in Southern Wi the hills of grant county would be where I'd guess one to be. Been some legit cougar sightings around the state lately. A day or two after this picture was shot, a county road crew were cutting and burning brush near a county road bridge approx. 6 miles west. They stopped work to watch a large cat working its way along a timber/brush hillside.
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Cougars have been spotted in southern Wisconsin as of late. I think the count is up to three now.
I think your neighbor's wife is more reliable than the DNR. The DNR held a cougar identification seminar last December for wildlife and law enforcement personnel...hopefully the DNR can make good use of it in the future. The seminar was held at Crex Meadows Center, Grantsburg, WI. The host was Dr. James Halfpenny and agenda item was: "Cougar Ecology and Verification Workshop." My verification education consisted of: If it walks like a cougar, sounds like a cougar, craps like a cougar and looks like a cougar...it must be a cougar.
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Roundoak, listen, if you want to verify the possibility of that cat being real, just go to where that picture was taken. Should be easy to find. Then go over to where the cat was, you can see how far to the left of that fence post and you can see where it's feet were in relation to the bottom wire. Put a rod in the ground, go back to where the picture was taken and see how far up the rod until it meets the wire that is bracketing the top of the cat. Measure the rod from wire to wire in relation to your view from the vantage point.
If it's 12"-18" it's a kitty. If it's double that, you got a big cat. Layman's photogrammetry.
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The wardens here in Minnesota routinely dismiss cougar sightings as "not a cougar" or "just a transient loner passing though." BULLPUCKEY! Heck, they've even shot a couple of them and they still won't admit there's even the slightest possibility they might actually live here. They're here. They've probably always been here, and they will continue to be here. Is it time to enlist the black helicopters to control their rampant population explosion? Heck no, but fercryin'outloud, admit a few of the big cats call this area home.
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Body is all wrong also. ![[Linked Image]](http://animal.discovery.com/mammals/cougar/pictures/cougar-picture.jpg)
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Sure looks like a lion to me.
In the photo I think it may have been "switching" its tail, so the tail is not straight out behind the cougar but to one side, making it appear shorter than it really is.
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Around here it would be passed off as a house cat enveloped by swamp gas or a large dog with light from the planet Venus reflecting off it. Bricktop?.....  Casey
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Roundoak, listen, if you want to verify the possibility of that cat being real, just go to where that picture was taken. Should be easy to find. Then go over to where the cat was, you can see how far to the left of that fence post and you can see where it's feet were in relation to the bottom wire. Put a rod in the ground, go back to where the picture was taken and see how far up the rod until it meets the wire that is bracketing the top of the cat. Measure the rod from wire to wire in relation to your view from the vantage point.
If it's 12"-18" it's a kitty. If it's double that, you got a big cat. Layman's photogrammetry. Foxbat, do you work for a CSI team? I will forward your post to the landowners and see what they think. In the context of the picture, you can see the cat is bracketed by the bottom and second wire. The fence consists of four barbed wire strands. Typically the distance between the wires is 10 to 10 1/2 inches, which is the length of a fencing plier. Mine are all Diamond pliers, which are 10" long. Is there a mathematical solution here? The cougar can be 24 to 30 inches at the shoulder. At what distance from the camera would the cougar appear 10 inches high?
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Sure looks like a lion to me.
In the photo I think it may have been "switching" its tail, so the tail is not straight out behind the cougar but to one side, making it appear shorter than it really is.
Casey I like your thought process...I and others did not think of this possibility.
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Around here it would be passed off as a house cat enveloped by swamp gas or a large dog with light from the planet Venus reflecting off it. Bricktop?..... Casey LMAO Yep.... we need an expert here. Hemi
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Dude, cougar for sure!! ![[Linked Image]](http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e364/northerndave/cougar.jpg) check it out, i zoomed in. ![[Linked Image]](http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e364/northerndave/zoomcougar.jpg) you got cougar trouble for sure.
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