Cougars in Indiana

I am not an american but what I think you guys are doing is great.:yikes: just my neck of the country by fort erie they had sightens last year.

 

Earlier this year there was a sighting @ Eagle Creek Park right here in urban Indianapolis. It was from a retired reputable business man and his wife who were on a walk one evening. While camping in some remote locations fishing some of Indiana's rivers and streams, I have heard the screeches of what I assume to be from a big cat (Cougar) Not going to swear that's what it was since I never had visual confirmation.



Sincerely, Ray Rigby

 

There have been several suspected sightings over the years in SE Indiana, but none that I know that were confirmed. My late father-in-law swore up and down that he had seen a black bear several years ago in Switzerland County on SR250 near Pleasant. Just last year there was a confirmed bear sighting near Muscatatuck.

Woody

 

My son-in-law and others have seen them recently in Branch/St.Joe counties, between Bronson and Sturgis. Some say DNR are stocking them in Michigan to reduce the deer herds. Of course, DNR denies the claim. Either way, the sightings I believe. But then I came face to face with a wolverine :yikes: here in NE Indiana in the mid 80's, and look how the coyote have flourished in recent years. They are all learning to adapt to the human population. Where else are they to go?

I am an outdoorsman and a hunter. I have a strong opinion that too much of our wilderness is going under the knife. They have no choice.

 

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YOU can see BIG CATS in chat room nighty...8 to 10pm is best time for sighting.

 

I'm sure some will think i am crazy, but i saw a panther about 10 years ago out by Brush Creek Res. in Jennings county. Had two other guys in the car who tell people about it, but I normally keep the story to my self.

 

there have been several sightings here here, one in miami county but the youth pastor from the church by my house. The sighting wasn't too far from here. The pastor and his wife were taking a walk so they saw it for a bit running, and the dear in a nearby fence(pets), were going nuts...

Alan

 

I have a friend who works for his cousin down in Boonville IN. They sware there is a black one on some reclimation property that his cousin leases. I think they said they spotted it 3 or 4 times in the same patch of woods.

 

i don't know where your located but the outdoor writer for the evansville newspaper has accumulated a lot of sightings some confirmed with scat and video. he had an article last yr but i don't remember which week it was about big cat sightings here in indiana. it would be my guess he could give you some good info or some contacts about sightings on big cats.

 

Cougar was seen in Whitley county by 8 or 10 people in the last 2 years. One family's children was going to get on the school bus and the cat was laying by the drive way in the tall grass. An another family watch the cat as it lay in there yard. They do not believe in having a gun in the house.

 

If you were on Private Property, could you shoot one if you saw it?

 

What happen here is a man had them in a cage with no permit to have them so he just turned them loose. I think it would not matter where I seen it I would shoot it. We have livestock and he could easy take down a calf, pig, goat or about anything.

 

I agree with ya 410, if I were to see one while I had a gun I would probably take my best shot at it. My thinking is, if the DNR officials deny that there is anything like that in my area and I see one, who is gonna miss the cat if it's not there,(in theory). (Not that all DNR officials are gonna lie to me) Furthermore there are all kinds of livestock around here, and i'm shure my uncle would appeciate me more if I shot something like that around here, for the sake of his livestock.


Alan