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Index of Subjects I remember taking a long, careful look at a cougar in Shubenackadie a few years ago - did anyone ever see a house cat as large as a cougar? I don't think I have ever seen any other animal that looks like a cougar, or that sounds like one when they howl at night. It is interesting to see people able to pick out the tiny differences of birds and yet have trouble identifying a cougar when they see one. I am also amused that a government agency is so certain we do not have cougars in Nova Scotia that they have a law that says it is illegal to shoot one. Did anyone read the article in the Sunday edition of the Chronicle Herald a few months ago about the number of cougars that had been reported in Nova Scotia? My guess is that there have been as many more that were seen and never reported. Roland. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederick W. Schueler" <bckcdb@istar.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 10:07 PM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Eastern Cougar > On 2/8/2011 8:04 PM, Gayle MacLean wrote: > >> I am awaiting his downloaded pictures of the paw prints that he took >> with his cell-phone. > > * it's useful to look at the fake (Lodgepole Pine and Blacktail Deer) > Peterborough, Ontario, photo of a Cougar - > http://www.rock95.com/Images/coug.jpg - to remind oneself how > small-headed, long- (and heavy)-tailed, and low to the ground they are. > Without judging the present sighting, I recently was shown a photo of a > "Cougar" from around here, which the Ministry of Natural Resources had > agreed was a Cougar, but which (by head size, height, coat texture, and > tail length and taper) was pretty clearly a mis-scaled domestic Cat. > > fred. > ------------------------------------------------------------
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