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Post by ibugly on Mar 13, 2011 19:42:29 GMT -6
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Post by caretaker on Mar 13, 2011 19:59:10 GMT -6
Hard to say if they are or are not. I do know I have seen a big cat on the app. trail. That was most on to 40 years ago. I have heard and seen tracks of what I think were big cats. This now puts a new spin on things. Where as I would not have said where or when if I saw one to protect it. I now would probably have to report it to protect it.
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Post by ibugly on Mar 13, 2011 20:06:27 GMT -6
One could be 5 feet away in some places and even trained eye could easily miss it. There's a lot of back country in the national forest for them to be also. Likely not more than one or two families of them in each state along the mountains though. Did you read that first comment the guy seeing the cat at point 19? Sounds like somebodies {pet} mountain lion got loose.
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Post by caretaker on Mar 13, 2011 20:12:50 GMT -6
Yea, I would say most sighting in around simi-populated areas are escapes or turn loose.
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Post by ibugly on Mar 13, 2011 20:21:22 GMT -6
Yea and some people used to keep bears behind their house.. I'm glad it never escaped on him LOL..
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Post by caretaker on Mar 13, 2011 20:30:09 GMT -6
back then most of the neighbors woulda either caught it or had him come after it. Now days it wouldn`t have survived more than a day or two.
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Post by ibugly on Mar 13, 2011 20:35:24 GMT -6
Yea. I'd like to know what all he did keep. I found some big cages back up in the woods.. The concrete slab is still there where the bear cage was though.. I don't have anything powerful enough to move it..
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Post by caretaker on Mar 13, 2011 20:44:10 GMT -6
Ain`t no tellin what he had or did.
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Post by ibugly on Mar 13, 2011 20:58:50 GMT -6
Well a barrel with ax marks in it one thing was kinda easy to figure out. I'm not 100% sure it was his as it was on the property line where that house is now.
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Post by caretaker on Mar 13, 2011 21:05:56 GMT -6
Sure glad we got ours hid better than he had his.
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Post by ibugly on Mar 13, 2011 21:21:36 GMT -6
Yea and hope the neighbors don't figure it out.. I used to see my uncle walk up the road when I was a kid and we lived in the trailer. He'd turn up the road I live on now..He was going to see my friends grandfather and they were going across the hollow.. Didn't piece it all together till we bought the place..
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Post by mason0366 on Mar 16, 2011 0:10:15 GMT -6
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Post by mason0366 on Mar 16, 2011 0:12:22 GMT -6
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Post by ibugly on Mar 16, 2011 19:41:23 GMT -6
The Cumberlands and Appalachians have the most remote areas in the eastern U.S. It only makes sense some cats are around. I would expect to see some on the Cumberland Plateau as well.
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