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- From: "David Skofstad" <dbs54neigh@earthlink.net>
- To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:31:39 -0600
You didn't expect a reply from the Chicago, IL, area but here it is. A Cougar was shot and killed by Chicago PD in a north side neighborhood this year. DNA testing indicated the same cat had been confirmed in the area of central Wisconsin some months before. There have been reports for a couple of years of cougar sightings in northeastern Illinois, some of them from reliable observers. A casting of a footprint was taken about 18 months ago by a wildlife biologist.
Perhaps cougars are taking the evolutionary path of coyotes...formerly highly shy and secretive, now not so much.
As a side note, local animal rights crazies have been very critical of the shooting, stating that cougars "never attack humans". This cat was a couple of blocks from a grade school. My opinion, it would have been irresponsible in the extreme to pass up the chance to contain the threat.
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Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings
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- Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings, Thor Burfine, 08/19/2008
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Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings,
Una Smith, 08/19/2008
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Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings,
ALLEN SNYDER, 08/19/2008
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Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings,
Philip & Bonnie Easley, 08/19/2008
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Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings,
IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN, 08/19/2008
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Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings,
Thor Burfine, 08/20/2008
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Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings,
Kinch, 08/20/2008
- Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings, Una Smith, 08/20/2008
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Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings,
Kinch, 08/20/2008
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Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings,
Thor Burfine, 08/20/2008
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Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings,
IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN, 08/19/2008
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Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings,
Philip & Bonnie Easley, 08/19/2008
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Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings,
ALLEN SNYDER, 08/19/2008
- Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings, Philip & Bonnie Easley, 08/19/2008
- Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings, pennbo, 08/19/2008
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Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings,
David Skofstad, 08/19/2008
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Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings,
Una Smith, 08/19/2008
- Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings, Laurie, 08/19/2008
- Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings, Pennbo's, 08/19/2008
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Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings,
Una Smith, 08/19/2008
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[MSAR] cougar sightings,
David Leadbetter, 08/20/2008
- Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings, Thor Burfine, 08/20/2008
- Re: [MSAR] cougar sightings, Una Smith, 08/20/2008
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