Have also seen a mountain lion in NH
I have also seen a mountain lion in NH. I was driving to the dump in Merrimack NH during broad daylight and the cat walked in front of my pickup and it was no more than 50 feet in front of me. This was nearly 20 years ago. It was in January, but there had been a lot of rain that turned the snow into a very hard crust after it froze, so there was no chance of any foot prints. The mountain lion was a charcoal gray in color, with no other distinctive markings. My wife was also in the car. It was about 2.5 feet high at the shoulders with a long thick tail. The body was long and muscular and very different from a dogs. We really confirmed our sighting at the Boston Museum of Science. They have a stuffed one there and the one that we saw was virtually identical, except for the coloration. We did not report the sighting to anyone but our friends.
We had one person indicate that mountain lions occasionally come down from Canada.
Many years later, I was talking to a co-worker who also lived in Merrimack and she relayed a similar experience during about the same time frame. Except that in her case it was actually on her deck. So, she got a very good look at it.
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