you cant discount i witness accounts of cougars, nothing looks like them and it seems that all fish and wildlife CO's read from the same book when people report seeing them - the following link is a story in the local papers of southern rhode island - the beach area - where several people had been reporting seeing a cougar - DEM fish and wildlife as do all of these agencies issued the standard deny deny deny - then just over the border a cougar was hit and killed by a car, in your face evidence. the official story then turned to "it was someones pet" - that was before the necropsy was finished and they found thru DNA testing that this cat was from south dakota and had actually been tracked up there. it traveled a long way to be here.
i think what im getting at is i see deer on a daily basis here in southern rhode island but when im up in alton i rarely see any at all, are there less deer in nh? i doubt it but they have a lot more places to hide from view and so it would be with an animal like a cougar that is ultra privateby nature. also there is no way in hell that a person with any common sense at all could mistake a bobcat/coyote/golden retriever for a cougar, nothing looks like them at all - i have been able to cross them off my bucket list having seen one in the canadian rockies and i will tell you they are something to see.
now as to the new show on tv about searching for bigfoots.......
http://southkingstown.patch.com/arti...esses-disagree
http://www.newstimes.com/news/articl...ot-1423074.php
http://southkingstown.patch.com/arti...ginal-position
http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?a=4013&q=483778