Cougar sighting

Cougar sighting on home surveillance camera near Milwaukee. I wonder if the DNR is going to say it was a pet that escaped. 

The difference between now and 10-15 years ago are the one billion trail cameras deployed throughout the state making detections of a small number of cats much more likely, and more importantly much easier to substantiate and confirm. 

What's with all the logic?  There is zero place for that in a conversation about cougars in WI.     

Edit:  The "crying laughing" emoji is one indication that I'm joking.  

-The drunker fool

They’ve probably been passing through here and there for pretty much ever. I’m not really up on the cougar population trends out west but I’d guess they’d be relatively stable to slightly increasing. Young males disperse looking for new territory or else face death. They just keep going since they can’t find females, which don’t widely disperse. The difference between now and 10-15 years ago are the one billion trail cameras deployed throughout the state making detections of a small number of cats much more likely, and more importantly much easier to substantiate and confirm. 

the_dude, it is "too early" for me but, later, tonight...I might try and spread that..."cheers" (insert drink emo thing here)

Do you really believe that the DNR brought in wolves/cougars? Even though I am no fan of the DNR leadership,do you really believe that out of the many people that would have to be involved no one would leak this info? Please this story has been spread by drunks and fools for years!SMFH

Do you really not get jokes?  

Signed, 

A drunk fool.

My Father and Grandfather were deer hunting by Star Lake in 1955 , they heard wolves howling and there were tracks

There are plenty of cougars roaming around bars if memory serves me. 

Dude.       Quit going to bars.    CARPIO 

I think it is a Pug..

Told my neighbor that the next time I see his dog in the yard I am going to shoot it..

I heard in the bar that the DNRs reintroduced cougars and wolves to kill deer because the insurance companies made them.  

One was seen today in my sister in laws backyard.  North of Sussex . She does have chickens  , but they were still in the coop . Maybe came to the scent ?

Fish, For the record I wasn't poking you in the eye. I've seen numerous comments that the cats spotted are males seeking their own territories and females to breed. I've always thought that the adult females must also be territorial to protect limited food resoursces for themselves and their offspring, and that young females, or even adults, would disperse in hard times to find food and/or their own space. I think over time the spread of females into the currently male dominated outlying areas will increase and that breeding populations will be established or grow from their current range.

I’ll amend my statement to 95% chance they’re all males. The breeding and dispersal habits of cougars do not require female cougars to disperse very far beyond their natal range. No one is saying it will never happen but even with western populations stable or  increasing, the chances of breeding populations popping up are still pretty slim with the wide swath of poor habitat between wisconsin and the nearest breeding populations. And they’ve probably been passing through for years. The difference now is detection is much more probable with the billion trail cams that are deployed that weren’t around 15 years ago.