SIGHTINGS: Two more cougar sightings on North Shore

Two more North Shore residents have reported seeing mountain lions in the last week or so, in Highland Park and Northfield.

Still no confirmations, however.

 

“What we need are pictures,” Northfield Police spokeswoman Loren Boyes said Tuesday.

In an era when so many people tote around telephone cameras wherever they go, not one of the seven people who have seen something large and cattish has photographed what they reported seeing.

Confirmation through tracks remains a dead end, too. Friday evening, a resident of the 1100 block of Highland Park’s Lincoln Avenue reported seeing a large, tan, catlike animal in her backyard, but police could find no tracks or other evidence that it was there.

 

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NEWSLINK: Senator Kerry Introduces the Big Cats and Public Safety Protection Act

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Tigers, lions and communities across the country may soon receive critical protection  U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) today introduced S.3547, the Big Cats and Public Safety Protection Act, aimed at prohibiting private possession and breeding of captive big cats in the United States. The House version of the bill was introduced by U.S. Reps. Buck McKeon (R-CA) and Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) last March. 

                              
Kerry's action comes on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Zanesville, Ohio animal massacre where the owner of a backyard collection of tigers, lions and other exotic wildlife, committed suicide after freeing the animals from their cages. Local police were forced to shoot and kill nearly 50 animals - 38 of them big cats - before they could enter populated areas.

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I do think this is a good idea, but like the uk it could mean more exotic big cats are released into the wild and left to fend for themselves.

SIGHTING: Big cat on loose in NY Hamptons

A BIG cat has been spotted on the loose near New York's swanky holiday destination The Hamptons.The New York Post reports the State Department of Environmental Conservation officials as saying they'd received several calls around a farm near the Spring Close Highway in East Hampton on Monday.

The reports were of a "a greyish cat-like creature about five-feet long, two-feet high at the shoulder with a long striped tail eating composting vegetables and meat scraps," DEC spokesman Bill Fonda told online news outfit Patch.com.

The cat sprinted into the brush before officials could spot it

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Hamptons Jaguar On The Loose? Officers Investigating Reports Of 'Panther-Like ...
Huffington Post
Patch reports investigators are looking into several reports of a "panther-like" big cat eating vegetables at a farm on 56 Spring Close Lane in East Hampton. Bill Fonda of the State Department of Environmental Conservation said Matthew Lester ...

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Officials looking for possible Jaguar on the loose in the Hamptons: report
New York Post
A big game cat, perhaps a jaguar, could be on the loose and prowling through East Hampton, according to published reports. State Department of Environmental Conservation officials said they've received several calls around a farm near 56 Spring Close ...

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DEC Chasing Reports of Possible Jaguar on the Prowl in East Hampton
Patch.com
Environmental Control Officers were called out to a farm at 56 Spring Close Lane on Sunday morning, after Matthew Lester spotted "a greyish cat-like creature about 5-feet long, 2-feet high at the shoulder with a long striped tail eating composting ...

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Sightings of a “panther-like animal” and a mysterious set of tracks just a mile and a half from East Hampton have local police and state wildlife agents on the hunt for a possible big game cat on Long Island.

East Hampton Police were called to a farm on Spring Close Road around noon Sunday after a resident claimed to have spotted a large panther-like creature, according to Bill Fonda, a spokesperson for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's Long Island office.

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