US SIGHTINGS: Corvallis, OR Authorities Kill Another Cougar

Corvallis, OR Authorities Kill Another Cougar

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Wildlife experts along with Corvallis Police trapped and killed a cougar found in a Corvallis neighborhood. Experts say a cougar had been living under the deck of a home in the 4100 block of NW Boxwood Drive for several days.

The animal had dragged and eaten a deer carcass below the house. The cougar had also killed a house cat and attacked dog.

http://bigcatrescue.org/corvallis-or-authorities-kill-another-cougar/

US SIGHTINGS: Dog Was "Fighting for His Life" in Mountain Lion Attack

Dog Was "Fighting for His Life" in Mountain Lion Attack NBC Southern California

A Sun Valley man says he saw a mountain lion drag away his beloved dog Duke, and he believes this attack has similarities with other big cat ...

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US SIGHTINGS: Mystery Animal Seen Lurking In Bloomingdale Preserve

CBS) – An unidentified animal seen on thermal video in a Bloomingdale forest preserve – some speculate it could be a large cat — has people buzzing in DuPage County.

CBS 2’s Mike Parker reports.

The Meacham Grove Forest Preserve is 252 magnificent acres of prairies, fishing spots, jogging and bike trails and thick woodlands.  In those woods, something lurks.

A police helicopter using a thermal imaging video camera caught pictures last month of something alive high in the trees. The camera clearly shows something moving way up near the treetops.  It appears to have a tail.

“They flew over it for a few minutes, took some video of it, and they thought it was some type of possible large cat, on a tree limb,” Bloomingdale Police Chief Frank Giamarrese says.

Could it be a cougar, mountain lion or a large domestic cat?

The chief forest preserve naturalist, John Oldenburg, says as far as he can tell it’s a blob in a tree that moves.

“We have seen no evidence of any large feline cat, bobcat, cougar or whatever,” he says.

Still, what if there is a large cat lurking and you’re confronted?

“I would just keep my distance, maybe notify local law enforcement or the forest preserve or (Department of Natural Resources),” Giamarrese says.

He says he would not recommend calling, “Here, kitty, kitty.”READ MORE

US SIGHTINGS: Florida mystery

A year ago, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission invited the public to submit reports of any sightings or signs of the elusive Florida panther to a new website the agency had created.

The very first one that popped in turned out to be … a monkey. Specifically, a rhesus macaque roaming the woods near Silver Springs.

Panther biologists looked at the photo, looked at each other and said, "Oh, yeah, this is off to a greatstart," recalled biologist Dave Onorato.But among the other 789 reports submitted in the past 12 months, the biologists did see some actual panthers, said Darrell Land, who heads the wildlife commission's panther team. Five percent — about 40 — were sightings of panthers that could be verified through photos or tracks. Some of those verified sightings came with a story. One came from a couple living in the Golden Gate Estates development near Naples, Marc Strzodka and Saskia Fischer.READ MORE

USA SIGHTINGS: Lion on the loose? Local hunter spots large cougar-like cat

Lion on the loose? Local hunter spots large cougar-like catHopkinsville Kentucky New Era

What is thought to be a mountain lion or cougar was recently photographed on the road leading to the Big Walnut Grove Church off Bradshaw Road.

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VIDEO: Rare Lynx sighting in Colorado

NEWSLINK: 'Tiger momma' relishes caring for big cats

'Tiger momma' relishes caring for big cats USA TODAY

CENTER POINT, Ind. —The splotches of blood run deep. They've turned Rebecca Rizzo's camouflage jacket a dark brown. The stains come from the ...

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NEWLINK: Louisiana 'Black Panther' Mystery Solved

According to a news report by Hope Ford of KLFY-TV, at around 7:30 pm, a large black animal was spotted in the field behind a home.

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“You could see it from the fence and it was pretty big,” said Karen Fory, whose brother-in -law first noticed the animal. “So, I came back to the truck and got the binoculars,” Fory explained.

Cathy Irwin, who lives in the home, said Fory called her over immediately to see what they considered to be a black panther. “We were standing about 100 feet away and you could see it,” Irwin said. “It was very large.”

Fory took several photographs of the animal before it wandered behind some trees.
“It’s a very dangerous animal, and anything can happen at any given time with that, especially with the children in these neighborhoods,” Irwin told the TV station. So she called Wildlife and Fisheries agents, who came to investigate but found no trace of the feline, nor were there any other reports of the creature.
The cat does indeed look unusually large in the photographs Fory provided to the news media and wildlife officials. But it’s important to note the image was shot on a high-definition camera, which means it can be greatly enlarged, and that she used a telephoto lens, which magnifies the size of the imageREAD MORE

NEWSLINK: New Jersey: Mystery of the decapitated cats

In a twisted mystery that has spooked a quiet Pemberton Township neighborhood, two black cats were decapitated, their intestines yanked out and wrapped around the animals' hind legs. Then they were carefully placed in the driveway of a North Lakeshore Drive home. 

The woman who found them in her driveway is uneasy. She and her husband have lived in the house for 10 years without problems. 

"This is a good neighborhood. We have good kids live here. I don't understand why anyone would do this to us. Really, I don't," said the woman, who asked that her name not be published. 

"It was on Friday morning," she said. "I was going out to hang my Halloween flag, and I saw these black things in the driveway. I thought they might be raccoons. But I got closer, and I could see they were cat bodies, and they had no heads." 

She called the police, who turned the case over to Burlington County SPCA Chief Richard Forberg. On Tuesday, Forberg led a team of armed investigators through the woodsy neighborhood along Mirror Lake, searching for the missing cat heads, and "possibly other remains of other animals." read more

US SIGHTINGS: Mountain lion reported in Southeastern neighborhood of D.C.

The cats will play while the mice are away (a lame reference to the government shutdown occurring right now.) This story is very incomplete. Mountain lion sighting rumored in SE D.C. – The Washington Post. Unproven reports of a mountain lion sighting in Southeast Washington spread across a neighborhood listserv, city officials’ e-mails and Twitter…read more

US SIGHTING: Big Cat? - Naugatuck's Wildlife - Naugatuck, CT Patch

Big Cat? - Naugatuck's Wildlife - Naugatuck, CT Patch

On one of my short hiking trips in the area I came across these tracks. They were on the edge of the woods and in the mud on the road. Now if you know a little ...

naugatuck.patch.com/groups/naugatucks-wildlife/p/big-cat

NEWSLINK: Mysterious Large Cat Stalks Detroit Neighborhood

http://www.livescience.com/39171-large-cat-stalks-detroit.html

NEWSLINK: Detroit Big Cat, Giant Savannah Breed Animal Named 'Chum', Shot And Killed: Reports

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/detroit-big-cat-giant-shot-killed-savannah_n_3822522.html?utm_hp_ref=animals

NEWSLINK: Extremely rare jaguar spotted near Arizona mountains

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/extremely-rare-jaguar-spotted-arizona-mountains-201801945.html

Jaguar roves near Rosemont mine site
Arizona Daily Star
The remote cameras have photographed the big cat in five locations on seven occasions since October. Three times, the federally financed remote cameras photographed the jaguar immediately west of the proposed Rosemont Mine site in the mountains ...
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Arizona jaguar? Photos show rare big cat near Tucson. Christian Science Monitor The Arizona Daily Star reports (http://bit.ly/12rLi2b ) that remote cameras have photographed the big cat in five locations in the Santa Rita Mountains' eastern flank on seven occasions since October. Those photos were taken for the U.S. Fish and ... See all stories on this topic »Photos show rare jaguar roams S. Ariz. mountains KOB.com Photos from remote cameras show a rare male jaguar roaming the Santa Rita Mountains in Southern Arizona. The Arizona Daily Star reports (http://bit.ly/12rLi2b ) the cameras have photographed the big cat in five locations on seven occasions since October. See all stories on this topic » Jaguar Journeys North To Arizona Global Animal Naturally, the jaguar's arrival in the U.S. has prompted a response in favor of preserving the species, but others believe the rare big cat doesn't warrant a state of urgency. Continue reading below to find out what the future holds for the nation's ... See all stories on this topic » Rare Jaguar Siting in Arizona's Santa Rita Mountains TIME According to a December press release on the federally-funded tracking project, the photos were captured using motion-sensor-activated trail cameras positioned in areas where the big cat was believed to be located. The federal agency began tracking the ... See all stories on this topic » This Is A Picture Of The Only Known Wild Jaguar In The US Houston Chronicle The new photos of a male jaguar in the Santa Rita mountains of Southern Arizona represent the first jaguar to be spotted in the United States since 2009, according to the Atlantic Wire, which noted that several grainy pictures of the big cat were ... See all stories on this topic » Endangered Male Jaguar Cruising Southern Arizona Phoenix New Times (blog) Big cat = big story. The last time any human was aware of a jaguar north of the U.S.-Mexico border was 2009, when a series of total fuckups by allegedly well-intentioned people led to the death of Macho B in southern Arizona. Macho B was 16 years old ... See all stories on this topic »

NEWSLINK: Panther sightings spark skepticism, wonderment

http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/x480782513/Panther-sightings-spark-skepticism-wonderment

NEWSLINK: Canada Lynx conservation in USA

Helping To Save The Canada Lynx
WGRZ-TV
The Canada Lynx is one of the last of the big wild cats left in the United States. Although their population is robust in Northern Canada, their numbers are considered endangered in the States, with only a few hundred in the wild. In East Aurora, Hawk ...

SIGHTING: Cougar in Washington

Cougar spotted in Bonney Lake yard
TheNewsTribune.com (blog)
A man spotted a cougar in the backyard of his Bonney Lake home this morning, and state wildlife agents have been called into to investigate, Bonney Lake police said. The man, who lives in the vicinity in the 8200 block of 191st Avenue East saw the big ...

NEWSLINK: More on campaign to outlaw private big cat ownership in USA

US ban sought on big cats
Mansfield News Journal
States that allow private possession of big cats with a permit: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Mississippi, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Delaware. Ohio and 27 other states and ...

Downes and Lutz: Federal Legislation Needed to Protect Big Cats ...
Almost one year ago, Zanesville, Ohio, suffered a terrible tragedy. Before committing suicide, the owner of a backyard menagerie opened the cages of his exotic ...

NEWSLINK: Tiger attack in Bronx Zoo

Bronx zoo tiger attack: Man lives, big cat is forgiven
Christian Science Monitor
The acknowledgement that the 26-year-old man was the culprit and the big cat was only acting out its nature isn't uncommon in tiger attacks. In a long line of tiger attack cases, survivors tend to blame themselves or other factors, not the cats. Some ...

Man mauled after jumping into tiger pit at New York's Bronx Zoo
Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Siberian tiger critically injured a man who jumped into the big cat's den at New York's Bronx Zoo on Friday, retreating only after emergency workers scared it off with a fire extinguisher. The man, 25, was riding the zoo's ...

Man mauled after jumping into tiger den at Bronx Zoo
TVNZ
A Siberian tiger critically injured a man who jumped into the big cat's den at New York City's Bronx Zoo today, retreating only after emergency workers scared it off with a fire extinguisher. The man, 25, was riding the zoo's elevated monorail in the ...

UPDATE 1-Man jumps into tiger pit at New York's Bronx Zoo, gets mauled
Chicago Tribune
man who jumped into the big cat's den at New York City's Bronx Zoo on Friday, retreating only after emergency workers scared it off with a fire extinguisher. The man, 25, was riding the zoo's monorail in the afternoon and leapt from a car, clearing a ...

Man Mauled After Jumping Into Tiger Den at Bronx Zoo
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The episode unfolded when the man apparently jumped from the monorail that traverses the big cat den at the zoo at about 3:23 p.m., New York Fire Department officials said. The man, who wasn't identified, suffered injuries to his left leg, right foot ...

NEWSLINK: US Legislation outlawing big cats as pets

Tell Congress: Big Cats Are Not Pets
Care2.com (blog)
U.S. Senator John Kerry recently introduced a Senate version of the Big Cats and Public Safety Protection Act (H.R. 4122/S. 3547), which is intended to protect big cats and the public by putting an end to the private ownership and breeding of big cats ...