So I guess its up in the air. Then well try to figure out what kind they are and get more evidence.. Those eyes I will never forget as the cars lights stunned it for a moment.. Last night i was driving back to college from home. My wife, dog, and I were walking on a dead end street no houses in Stratford Habour this morning (11/8/07). I live in Southwest, VA. In October & November of 2007, my dogs got to barking. Theres just too few of them. I was looking for a litle solitude so i ventured about a 1/4 mile off the trail and set up camp by a little stream. Sadly, mountain lions no longer live in Virginia. Of course, he has never seen a documented one inthe wild, so I only trust his take so far. I HAVE HEARD OF AN OLD WOMAN THAT HAD A DOBERMAN THAT STAYED ON HER BACK PORCH NEAR ROCKINGHAM CO NC. At a second glance, we knew that it couldnt be deer. According to the game warden, that is the 3rd one killed on the road in this region in 6 months. I remember seeing very large cat tracks(not a normal bobcat track) while hunting the GWNF sw of harrisonburg,va in the mid to late 1980s. Virginia has two different native species of wild cats. The Florida Panther was also listed as a separate subspecies, Puma concolor coryi. I was glad i was in a car, as Im sure it would have been terrified had we been on foot. The DNR maintains mountain lion sightings using a system to receive, record and review mountain lion reports. When Dr. Michelle LaRue began her graduate studies in 2005, the state of Nebraska had virtually no mountain lions. I have compiled descriptions of over 25 sightings in the surrounding area but none of them have produced real evidence in the form of a photo, footprint casting, body part, or scat sample from Virginia. Wolves once thrived in Virginia, but due to the harm they inflicted on farms and livestock, they were hunted by the settlers of Jamestown and eventually became extinct. We know they were two different animals because the tail-tips were different. It was headed north. Yes, it is a cougar, but could the picture have been taken somewhere else??? They didnt waste a bit of meat, it was all consumed in about 1.5 hours and then the buzzards came in to scavenge what they could. But before all this happened I heard them calling its almost like they were planning the hunt to come. Places that will never see any kind of development. Admission is $6 for ages 16 and over, $2 for kids 6 to 15 years old, and free for . Marchibroda wasnt under any illusions that she could catch or in any way interact with the mountain lion she saw on her hike. Calling All Skiers and Snowboarders Home to Massanutten, An Insiders Guide to Mount Rogers and Whitetop Mountain, the Highest Peaks in Virginia. The sad thing is people I know who say theyve seen mtn lions in Botetourt and/or Bedford County, especially raccoon hunters who say their dogs treed a lion, would never come out publicly with such a statement. It was on Rt. Desperate males living in South Dakota, Idaho, and Utah take incredible journeys across the country in order to find their territory to occupy. WVa Sanctuary provides safe home for mountain lions and bobcat. Neither Marchibroda nor her canine hiking companion made a peep, and as soon as the cat caught sight of its awe-struck onlookers, it scampered back into the woods, swift and silent. Theres no guarantee that cougars trekking from South Dakota will stick around, or that the female in Tennessee will have kittens. The girls were young and werent sure what theyd seen. This seems strange for late in the summer. They then have to ensure that the picture hasnt been tampered with in any way, because Peterson said an astounding number of peopleboth misinformed wildlife enthusiasts and tricksters with too much time on their hands and access to Photoshopsend him shots of mountain lions that were clearly either edited or taken in a state out west. Mountain lions go by many names, including puma, cougar, and panther. They could be making a similiar mistake about the cougar sightings. Hey me and my friends go hunting in virginia and theres been some times where we have been hunting and we would here her but it sounds like a female screaming bloody murder and its one of those sounds that makes your hair stand up and if you are tired it will wake you up i personaly know i was hunting in a stand and i saw the hole body but the head it scared the living crap out of me There is no reported melanistic phase of cougars or pumas in the literature. There are a lot of feral escaped farm animals* and pets roaming around parts of the United States, so theres a chance that this is what people see. But really, itll change peoples viewpoints at some point., Experts in Tennessee dont know exactly how many mountain lions are roaming the area, but they do know one thing for sure: at least one of them is a female. My dogs heard it and came running. I am from western North Carolina. Only the cubs have spots and stripes, though adults can have bold black accents on the face/ears. Colby is a freelance writer from Charlotte, North Carolina. About 1987 I lived across the river from Holy Cross Monastery. But the thing about mountain lions is that females dont travel as far or as often, and when they disperse they dont go very far or very well.. Its been about ten years since then and Smith Mountain Lake has become a vacation spot for every northern virginian there is so the mountain lion probably found a more secluded area, there is a ton of it out there, to hunt and live. Why? A lifelong Virginia resident, Beth loves exploring different parts of the world and currently resides in Alexandria. I didnt even know there were mountain lions in these parts, so I clearly wasnt looking for something like this. ANY REPLY IS WELCOME, Dont know if you have any cougar there, but it sure sounds like a good place for wolves. me and a budy were spotlitting for deer [no guns i might add we were coming down off cold mountin fields saw two solid black cats run up some rocks both were about 60 to 70 pounds aim sure it was cougars i hut these mountains all of my life bear hunt coon hunt deer and evret thing eles but i thing its a small population and they move around travling from parts of amherst nelson trew shandoua park and west va beleive me or not i also told peple thre were coyotes in these mountain 26 year ago and peple thout i was crazy. My farm helper saw one at approximately the same location yesterday. Since 1970, scores of wild mountain lion sightings have been reported without a single one being confirmed, the department reports. Based on the photographs and videos we receive, the primary ones that people mistake them for are bobcats. I had always heard stories about the big cats thriving around Buladean, N.C and even closer areas to my home. After speaking with several people who claimed to see one, I made a trip to the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) office in Verona. Forestry rangers say they have spotted several mountain lions in the area. I live in historic Jonesborough, TN. Does anyone know the black bear population in Amelia county? My son and I definitely saw a mountain lion today while I was taking him back to college this morning on I-81 near Buckhannon in Virginia near the Blue Ridge Parkway exit; unfortunately, it had been killed by a car before we saw it. Im thinking they are here though. Does it make a circle on a set time period or does it travel randomly? If anyone is interested, you may write me at thatwhitekid247@aol.com. I really took offense to that.. I am in the Linville, NC area and have had several people tell me that they have seen a mountain lion during the past three to four years. Biologists and wildlife specialists speculate that cougars will reestablish themselves in states like Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia within the next 25 to 50 years. He told me that he was having a problem with coyotes killing his sheep. The cougar has the largest geographic range of any native terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere. The whole encounter lasted about thirty seconds, certainly long enough to know what I saw in broad daylight. We guessed it could have been but have no proof. Mountain lions weigh between 90-160 pounds while bobcats weigh between 20-30 pounds according to an article by the Iowa DNR. Loudoun County Off of Woods road almost every single night we hear a mountain lion , no doubt at all this is what it is. TWRA has had their collective heads up their cloacas for a very long time in denial of these sitings [sic] and reports, reads a comment on a December 2015 article about the video footage. Im not a mammalogist, so Im not going to try to play their role, but I think theyre all the same, Kocka said, adding that differentiating between subspecies may not always be a worthwhile effort. I was leaning against a tree w/my parka hood blocking the wind, when I saw a grown cougar walking straight toward me. Is this thread for real? It looked to be about 90 to 100 pounds. The DGIF is adamant though that the species is not found in the Commonwealth, although it is possible the western subspecies could be moving east. FYI: for those who dont know HOW A COUGAR CRY AND BOB CAT CRY DIFFER: Even thou the cougar is a much bigger ,more powerful fearsom cat than the bobcat , the cries differ this way: COUGAR: the scream is more of a stronger from the bottom pit of the stomach frantic yell(like a 14 yr old thats been tramatized) and it repeats itself over and over and moves rather quickly from one place to the next. I do not know of any dogs in the area with feet that big. He said it was from the Mattaponi Trial in Caroline County. In fact, they are the fourth-largest cat species in the world, behind tigers, lions, and jaguars. In the case where two mountain lions had been found locally, it didn't take long for them to stir up trouble. of Game and Inland Fisheries web site on the eastern cougar. I never had heard anything like it before. "Mountain lions existed statewide at the time of European settlement, but presumably were extirpated from the state by the 1880s," a DGIF blog stated. How did they know this isnt an eastern lion? A huge buck jumo out in front of us right then so we assumed it had smelled cat or that the cubs mother was hunting. An elderly man there once told me a story about a black Mountain Lion living in the area back in his younger days. However, according to growing reports, they are here. I didnt think any more of it until we had our coyote visitor but now shes certain what she saw was a little of coyote pups. It was approximately 5 ft. long & 2 ft. high. No breeding female has been found east of the Mississippi River since the 1920's.3. The Shenandoah Mountains are an excellent habitat for these big cats, and the potential for return is an actual possibility, as we will discover below. A litter of bobcat kittens even started living in my friends open barn because they were obviously abandoned. Saturday 27 Sept 08 I found a large paw print in the mud from the recent rains. Cougars, also known as mountain lions, were once common here and they have left a legacy of place names throughout the state indeed, the entire Southeast. The Mountain Lions compete as members of the Mountain East Conference in all fifteen sports. A mountain lion is a wild cat ranging from two to three feet tall, with females weighing up to 120lbs and males up to 200lbs, making it the fourth largest cat in the world. I was so shocked that I could even stop the car in time to see it again. Thank you for reading! I know mom & dad said they saw it & I do believe them but why, if they are, people denying them being here? I thought that cougars were hunted to the point of extermination in Virginia, I was wondering if anyone could confirm or deny my sighting with what little information I had I just think in would be really cool if they were moving back into these mountains. One large paw print about 3.5 to 4 inches wide, three distinct inch+ pads (no claw marks). Reason being: If mountain lions are show to exist east of the Mississippi River, the states game departments may be liable for livestock damages. I was frozen with fear as I realized it wasnt a bear, but a black mountain lion. As we were approaching the Mabry Mill area, my daughter said excitedly hey dad, look, a bullmastiff (we bred them in Ct, and still have 2 adult males as pets). At least, that was the case until recently, when a moose was spotted near Lake Frederick in northern Virginia. We got a phone call last night that one of our neighbors (in Midlothian, VA) saw a lion in the back yard. Fish and Wildlife Service removed the eastern puma from their endangered species list, declaring that the species is now extinct. I see cats and cat signs pretty regularly where I live now, but have never heard this sound again. At the beginning of September there was an article in the Caroline Progress about a large cat in Caroline county with a picture from a game camera. The subspecies would no longer be considered "threatened" once three populations were found or established, with each containing more than 50 breeding adults. I recently sent a comment asking if anyone has seen a wolf in Virginia. I couldnt believe it! i recently moved to Martinsville from Ct. My folks have lived in Stuart for the past 11 years. The cougars wandering far from their original homes in the West are, naturally, searching for three things: habitat, food and mates. i would love their return to our wilds. All the territories are basically taken up so they have to go somewhere else, and somewhere else happens to be the Midwest.. And then my second thought was No, maybe not.. It was in the early evening but well before dark. Nobody even thinks anything of it because of its regularity. like when you see a wolf look at the paws for positive ID. Pretty exciting. In 1994 a friend and I were driving up the Blue Ridge Parkway on our way to Panther Hollow. My husband saw it too. I was like baby look at that big ole cat! Thankfully we were vindicated by a clear trail cam sighting a couple years later. I have been compiling reported cougar sightings around the Bedford, Virginia area and will be manning a booth for them on March 8, 2008 Outdoors Show at the Bedford Armory. Thursday, April 21, 2005. Which could be a pretty big deal, because up until now, the confirmed sightings in the east have been of male cats. The tail was furry but with short hair like the rest of the body that I saw and was round kind of curving down and out like my house cats tail when he hunts birds. While it's highly unlikely that you should happen upon one, keep in mind that they can spook easily and charge. While I was on vacation last summer, 2007, in Sandbridge Beach, Virginia, outside Virginia Beach, I encountered a big black cat. or the puma to make official statements confirming its presence in the Eastern US and in fact might prove harmful to the cougar spur public fear if such a confirmation were made. Harsh winters can[], Thanks for dropping by! I live in Chilesburg, Caroline county. I should have said that I think I may have seen one myself. On thursday October 16,2008 at 5:30/5:45 pm, my folks wanted to show me the Blue Ridge Parkways scenic fall views. "I do believe that the vast majority of people who claim to have seen them honestly believe that they saw them, that they aren't purposefully making up stories. I used to vacation on Smith Mountain Lake Virginia, Good View, and I can definatly confirm cougar in this area. A week later the farmer shot the mountain lion. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. It seems common knowledge of all the cats that roam the mountains along the Potomac River in West Virginia. Then I heard Coyotes doing their eerie little howls. HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Its a simple question with very different answers depending on who you ask. Sadly, these animals were killed because they were viewed as a threat to humans and livestock. I was camping up there with some friends and we could have sworn we heard howling! This was kind of cool to me so I was on the lookout for any other animals, also keeping in mind that they might run onto the road. In his more than 30 years working for DGIF, he's only been called out for one mountain lion sighting in the area. The bobcat is a resilient cat that has managed to keep under cover and establish territory across most of the United States. Beowolf the key to your sighting is the tail . Pretty much the same thing as we read here. They exclusively populated western states for decades, but according to LaRue, some shifts in hunting regulations began to change things about 50 years ago: lions were switched from the bounty hunter category to a game species managed by the states. A couple of sightings involved captive . Speculation over what kind of animal attacked a hiker near Humpback Rocks on Friday namely, a bear or mountain lion was resolved Monday, thanks to the victim's mother. Thus the tight lips. Cougars used to roam the entirety of North America, making the mountain ranges, woodland forests, and river corridors from coast to coast their homes. In Nebraska, the mountain lion is the largest carnivore. Source: Wikipedia, Cougar. This is not the same picture withe the cat dragging the buck. However, my husband couldnt contain his excitement and called me immediately to tell me he had his own personal proof of the existance of cougars in Virginia! Ive seen a few cougars in the wild, I dont believe the black phase has ever been confirmed in any mountain lion/cougar/catamount/puma. It was the first time I could see it clearly. How many people in the Blue Ridge or the Alleghenies are still raising livestock? It was a juvenile mountain lion. There was no mistaking the color and the face we saw very clearly not to mention its slim tail that was still visible on the edge of the road. We then came upon a very recent deer kill within 20 yards of the sighting. They are very ellusive cats. smokymtman, I expect they will confirm puma presence. According to the Cat Specialist Group, Puma concolor cougar is in North and Central America and Puma concolor concolor ranges throughout South America.2. That would be earth shattering for the depts. Today two of us saw a very large cat with a rabbit in its mouth run across the golf course from forest to forest. I got to see 4 coyotes run down a mature doe and brutaly slaughter her. Look at his PAWS!. Mountain lions live in areas that have ample hiding places. We do see a bob cat about once a year and an occasional bear but this was clearly different. It has to be a good, clear photo, and we get all kinds of fuzzy stuff that could be a bobcat, could be a yellow lab, but its so far away or so fuzzy we cant tell.. The puma can kill and drag prey up to seven times its own weight, the National Zoo said. I have friends in Wyoming and Montana, where mountain lions have always been. cat with a !very long! We do have pictures of that! The West Virginia Wildlife Center . Today is Sept. 29, 2008. I would guess that the overbundance of whitetail deer could have contributed to the return? of the puma. On Saturday, Sept 28, 2008, at 7:20am, I was on my way to Warrenton from Midland (7 miles southeast of Warrenton). I was dragging some stuff behind my ATV down a old farm road in Appomattox Virginia, when this fellow bounced out in front of me about 50 yards ahead. We coundnt believe what we saw. It was, without question, a mountain lion. It Had a very long tail, and had a light brown coloring with black spots. When i shined my mag light acrossed it we noticed eyes and it was like nothing else we have seen before. twice in the last 6 months. Forestry rangers said several ponies killed , others attcked off 811 near Evington, va. Kentucky and N. Carolina. He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News. After that two sets of very large eyes started following me. Be that as it may, I have happened upon a number of large feline tracks similar to those of the cougar, and while rerunning the indelible images of my sighting, can only deduce that the animal I saw was just that. There were 4 different sizes, the smallest was about 2 ft. long. Most occur in Shenandoah National Park and in Bedford, Amherst and Nelson counties. I saw a large bobcat at around mile 205-203 heading south on I-81. My buddy who lives in Floyd heard one, and others I know around here and by bent mountain. One glanced at us. We didnt know what it was, but later walking in the field we found lots of turkey feathers but no specific sign of coyote or lion. I have hiked almost all 850 miles of trails, stayed at most of the backcountry campsites, and have spent many nights wandering around those hills looking for nocturnal mammals. Full grown, the bulls can weigh up to 700 pounds, so be sure to keep a respectful distance should you see one of these beautiful creatures! The likelihood of seeing one is incredibly rare, let alone interacting with them, she said. I knew not to run, so I just stood there and waited. My 70lb lab is 24 at the shoulder for comparison. We were too busy looking at each other asking, Did you see that? We should have ben focusing on details. Given my report in spring of 07 of a lion sighting could this be a return of the catamount? just wanted to know more about wolves in Virginia. My uncle always swore he saw a mtn lion on the family farm in Montvale in the early 1990s sitting at the treeline across a field watching him as he worked with his pigs. Hickories and pecans seem sparse this year. Because they are lone animals that are not breeding. In 1979, The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries cited the mountain lion, or puma or cougar, to be an endangered or threatened animal in Virginia. This picture seemed to have been at night. . But recent expert-confirmed sightingswhich have involved photographs, videos, and DNAin Tennessee support a theory that mountain lions, whose populations out west have continued to expand, are slowly making their way back to this side of the country. In fact, there have been 121 reports that are likely to have been true mountain lion sightings. Mountain Lions at the West Virginia Wildlife Center. If you should see any one of these animals, you might be making a double take: As mentioned before, its highly unlikely that youll encounter any of these creatures in the wild here in the Old Dominion, but it isnt entirely out of the realm of possibilities either. So the tail of the catamount continues. Various wolf packs took up residence in the nearly 900-square-mile area over the years, and this pack settled atop a massive, rocky cliffside. The cougar (Puma concolor), also known as mountain lion, panther, painter, puma, and catamount, is the largest feline animal in North America.. More than 300 cougar sightings have been reported in West Virginia since 1975, according to the Eastern Puma Research Network. . For years people have reported mountain lion sightings in the Valley, but, according to local DWR officials, they've been extinct in our area since 1882. I am concerned since that pond is a source of water for my horse. I went on line and llistened to mountain lions and cougar screams and it sounded exactly like that. As we rounded a curve in the road, we saw the cat jump out of a overhanging tree on the left hand side of the road and landed in the middle of the road. Tried to track it with the game warden but never found it. Could this be possible?? the cougar tail almost sweeps the ground and might have some markings on the tip of gray/white, the rest of the tail looks like short hair and is not bushy. Good luck, I think and hope theyre here, its interesting to consider. Last time I heard it it sounded like it was 30 50 yards away and then I heard a dog bark then yelp and one last scream from the animal and then quiet. It is the timeline that is in dispute. This lion was hit between Cherry Reservoir Road and High Knob area Not high pitched like a house cat but low, sounded like whatever it was had some size to it. Without as many wolves around, coyote populations began to thrive and expand eastward. It took another 3 minutes or so before all the fogs quieted down. It was just on the side of the road walking into the long grass, it didnt even seem to be starlted by a loud car so close. 111 1. Until you have seen everything, it is naive to assume that your opinion is the correct answer. 29 and crossed the highway. There have been 121 mountain lion sightings in Virginia since 1970. We stood there listening to them, it sounded like they were answering each other from 3 different places. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. A co-worker and I had a run in with a very large black cat in Floyd, VA in 2002. The dog was close enough I could open the door and bring her in. He said, I went out at about dusk and I was looking around my property and at the edge of the woods I saw a mountain lion with a half dead groundhog in its mouth and it was tossing it into the air and catching it.. Could it be? My grandparents lived most of their lives near Summersville, WV, in Nicholas County. It would disappear and then reappear on the other side of us it did that 3 times. Im not sure if they really believed us but a few years ago the lady and her friend rode their horses off into the battlefield trails which begin in a field directly across from our front door. Above post by Rob about a Lion in Wise virginia is a hoax! Yet, this evidence has never been documented by biologists. Mr. Lutz do you have internet picture of the Virginia cougar that you show arround? Bobcats, yellow labs, and feral house cats are all common culprits for mountain lion mis . Probably 10s of thousands across the Appalachian regions of the state. News outlets picked up the story and the video went viral, and its easy to understand whyaccording to TWRA regional manager Alan Peterson, that video marked only the second confirmed cougar sighting in Tennessee in more than 100 years. 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