Buffalo County Cougar

I guess I’m not sure. I try not to call names or otherwise disparage when engaging in anonymous internet discourse unless absolutely necessary, such as when someone describes covert cougar stocking programs conducted under a level of secrecy akin to the manhattan project. 

So if I agree with CM what does that make me? Or if I agree with you Fish, what does that make me? 

I’ll bite!    F——d up dumb dude?

Ask CM, if your opinion is different from his you are either Fudd, clown, slob, or just plain lazy. 

WTH is a fudd, please someone define what a fudd is.

Your “SoUrCe” is lying and you are the clown for spouting such ridiculous garbage. A cursory search of UW-SP masters thesis papers reveals no such program….because it doesn’t exist. No environmental impact statement, no source population, no disease testing and quarantine. You can’t just go to say South Dakota, trap a couple cougars, then go upon your merry way without approval from that state and the federal government as part of your masters project at a state university. All these actions and approvals generate paper trails and public records, which do not exist in this case. Cougars don’t form “breeding pairs,” males control territories and breed all the females within. All, yes all, of the cougar sightings in Wisconsin are young males dispersing from mainly the black hills area in search of territories with breeding females. Since females do not disperse from their natal ranges, those do not exist in Wisconsin and these young males continue on. One of the confirmed sightings a few years ago was hit by a car in Connecticut three months after passing through Wisconsin. Everybody has a buddy who has pictures of kittens with a female but conveniently never seem to get posted. Nice try Fudd. 

My "SoUrCe" is, the guy was involved with it. I will not be releasing his name. It's been going on for 30 years. First time was in Ackley, with 2 girls doing their masters project through UW Stevens Point on reintroduction of lions into WI. Breeding pair was released. There is enough information right there for anyone who wants to, to find it. But hey, let's believe the DNR and call me dumb for thinking a government agency would lie. LMAO, i bet you clowns wore masks to gun your deer because the deer have covid like the DNR say back in 2020.

04/29/2023
Trail cam pict of a big cat crossing front of the cabin. Not a bobcat,lol.
UP of MI., not far from WI. border.

Agree that appears to be a bobcat.. The DNR has been reporting an average of 15-20 "verified" cougar sightings in the state over the last few years (and some in Marinette County).  I know one was documented all the way down here in Washington County a few years ago.    

It’s Hwy 8 between Dunbar and Pembine.  Also have been told a could times over the past years from people that live in the area that they see cougars every so often 

What convinces me that it is a bobcat are the dark spots on the inside of the legs.  Not characteristic of mountain lions.

I believe that is a bobcat, and what you think is the tail is the right rear leg. Cool picture nonetheless. 

I have no doubt there are more in the state than the DNR will admit to.  

Why would the DNR "not admit" this information, pray tell?

Anyone who thinks the DNR is "secretly planting cougars".....please submit a credible source for your information. (Not "My buddy said")

Wjbk….
Specifically where in Marinette County? I’ve got more to add to this 

And where is this puma hatchery?  Probably right next to the rattlesnake hatchery, the wolf hatchery, and across the road from the black helicopter manufacturing factory.