These 2 pictures were taken by a man in Grenola, KS. ( about 12 miles from me)
He said they were taken with one of those new night cameras you leave in the woods.
The date was October 2008 at about 10PM according to him.
The area was South and East of Mulvane, KS. ( about40 minutes from me)
Game wardens have always said to all the locals that there ARE NO long tails in this area. ( I know different cause we saw one a couple years ago up in the rocks while deer hunting) Lots of guys have seen them .... but no pictures..
G Wardens also said it is against the law to shoot them too ( why are they worried about anyone shooting if they claim that there aren't any
But these pictures pretty much proves it once and for all..that the cougars are alive and well in our area...
DNR says the same thing here about the big cats too (panthers in this neck of the woods).........but I've seen too many tracks and a few tail-ends moving in the woods over the years.
They say there are a couple dozen left in the north Florida area but they would never venture up into south Georgia (didn't know the animals could read maps).
My great grandmother told me when I was a small child that there were 'panthers' in the woods down on the Little River and along the creek behind our property.
DNR also said there were NO bears in south Georgia, but I've saw tracks on the river banks. And, a few years ago they even caught a black bear in town in a trash dumpster. Then the next year a black bear got hit by a car while crossing a bridge on our county line.
Experts don't know everything.