A cougar is spotted about a quarter mile from my house. I cross a river to investigate and what I find shocks me. Subscribe to my RU-vid Channel to receive updates.
Great post! Thanks for validating with video! I’m about a 1/2 mile from where your recording over in Coldwater Hills, and about the the same time give or take a day or two, my son discovered what appeared to be big cat tracks right in my back yard. I told him I thought he was nuts! But now I feel I owe him an apology. Thanks again....
You can "feel" like taking a poop too, but hold it in. So maybe you should tell him you think he may be right, maybe give him an apology,----along with a side arm. Oh, the times have changed in Michigan. Doug
My grandma saw one in Mason county around the marshy-long lake area. I can easily take her word for it. I’ve heard cougar sightings as far south as Grand Haven/ Muskegon county. An old man once told me there was a deer carcass hanging in a tree on the dune trails leading up to Lake Michigan. I’ve heard numerous trail cam stories from the area as well. I disagree with the DNR, I don’t think the same animal gets spotted twice EVER. OK MAYBE ONE TIME AT SOME POINT. The first primary instinct the animal has is stealth, over hunting instinct even. There are way more Cougars that aren’t confirmed or even spotted by anyone at all. With that being said I still believe the numbers are relatively low. DNR workers know as individuals that is probably the correct scenario but as an entity together they are slow to catch on for panic control purposes.
I saw a huge cougar inn Cadillac, Michigan around 7:00 pm at night running across 13th Street, north to south, into the industrial park. The area is populated by houses and people and pets. This was five years ago.
I own several hundred acres in Southern Michigan along the Indiana border and have seen a family of cougars (mom and two kittens) during 2013-2016. Our area is surrounded by wetlands and has a steady population of deer. I know that cougars are reproducing...I have seen two litters since 2016... but I will never identify the area due to hunters illegally poaching these animals.
I have studied Mountain lions and around 20 years ago I seen a huge male on the opposite side of the road I-75 N In the UP of Michigan! I slowed down and blew my car horn and flashed my lights but it didn't move and it was not afraid!
I have personally seen one and have shared with few. One stands a better chance of seeing Sasquatch. That cougar has a kill. You judge a cat by it’s gait. Little Toms can have big feet. On a good day that cat will travel 10 sq miles looking for supper and a girlfriend. Stray dogs are more of a threat to you, kids and live stock than lions, tigers and bears. Cougars almost exclusively eat deer, regardless of what part of the country they live in. Hence, the DNR has over a 20 year period allowed the totally unmanaged wolf population to explode. Hence, no meat to eat. The deer and about everything else is gone. Now, the random cougars have been moving south. I know of many. Great post! 👍🎯🍀🇺🇸⛄️👋😷🐅🏹🎣
I live in Sand Lake, Mi. We have a horse boarder across the road. He was having some coyote problems so he was watching around one of the pastures and got a picture of one last year. Was told it was a feral cat! Yeah okay.
Go pet one. I can almost always pet a stray dog. One of these cats is going to take a human on a trail. You know that does happen with Mt. Lions, right?
What county did you say you are in? I saw one yesterday morning on our driveway in the UP, south of Crystal Falls. Of course, we have wolves, coyotes, black bears and bobcats, which I see from time to time. Nice video! 🙂👍
Roland Baker and his Michigan mammal book I used to have years ago he talked about in the 1930s there was a newspaper article from Marquette County talked about something called a catamount being taken in the Huron mountains in the 1930s could’ve been a mountain lion?
Had a lion above me in a tree , I pulled my side arm after it hit the ground. It ran off. There were deer bones under the large limb that it was on. This was a property that I leased for hunting along the st. Joe River in central lower Michigan in 2008. My hunting partner was the first to see it and yelled for me to pull my side arm.
I've legit seen one in Lansing, mi. on the river trail that runs through town. Its heavily wooded and hunting is not allowed. Literally you can walk this trail and come 5 feet away from the deer on the trail. they aren't afraid of humans because they know they won't be killed. Perfect hunting grounds for a big cat.
My wife and I saw a huge cat in our neighbors yard a couple hundred feet away in southern Lapeer County about 2 miles north of Oakland Co. I thought it may have been a huge adult Lynx but the tail was way too long. It may have been a cougar.
30 years ago I read a article in sitting in the dentist office about the DNR and the wolves they wanted 500 wolves in the UPA in 200 in the lower and they said that Michigan could handle up to 100 cougars
Dude I have one in my area called DNR done everything I could to have it dealt with. I finally got a picture of it and it's huge 😱😱 black panther very scary I posted a picture on my Facebook page people talking about it on local radio stations really crazy I don't want anyone to hurt it and I will not allow anyone to hunt it at this point don't know how far you are from me I'm in Kalamazoo Michigan don't know if they got the one your ex wife has seen could be the same one. Check out my Facebook page and you will see the picture I have it's crazy
Would love to see your pictures! But can't find you on Facebook. Is ur profile public? Also What did you mean by, "have it dealt with"? Confused as you said you don't want it killed and u mention u wonder if they "got the one" his ex wife saw. Far as I have heard it is illegal to kill one as they are a protected species,free to roam where they want.
Just remember this. It has no problem hunting you. You don't even want to go out into the woods anymore I bet. I used to hunt,---and I don't. Not too long ago, kids could be out in the woods all day long, camping all night,---and nothing could hurt them. This is dangerous bull crap, and I don't think it is all "nature".
@@EarthSurferUSA We have a lot of cougars in California. I've hiked a lot and am still waiting to see one. You are far more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by a mountain lion...
My lawn guy came face to face with one in the daylight on my horse farm in Livingston county yesterday . DNR seems disinterested. My property boarders a neighborhood with many small children and dogs it’s unnerving.
Back around 2011 in Grand rapids Mi., I saw a car in the Ace Hardware parking lot on Michigan street with a personal license plate that said, "2nd Hamaz". I asked another customer, a sharp looking gentleman walking by also, what he thought of it; "It looks like a liking of that terrorist organization "Hamas.". I thought the same, even if it was a Michigan DOT issued plate. A day or so later I saw a "DHS" van next to a dry cleaner and told him about it. He was not only not interested,---unlike the other customer, he laughed at me saying, "This is the America man!" Like he knows what the USA is suppose to be. "Duty" is brain dead, (or lose your job). That is why Duty is evil.
A conversation with my Realtor when I moved back to Mason county in early 2016: Me) "I hear people have been seeing Cougars in the area." Her) "The DNR says that is not true. No Cougars are in the area." Me) "Does that mean we can shoot them?" Her). "No". Hmmmmmmmm haha
10 or 15 years ago (maybe more now?) there was video footage on local news of a cougar with a cub. They were walking along a wood line at edge of a farm field in southern Monroe County, just a few hundred yards north of Ohio border (Sylvania, OH). Yup, they're here.
However, a cougar has a 3 ft. long tail and a small one weighs a 100 pounds. A massive bobcat might weigh 40-45 pounds and has a stubby tail. Plus, they are spotted. 🐅👋🐆🏹👍😷⛄️🇺🇸🎯🍀💉
@@maryjackson9669 You forgot to capitalize "Bob". haha The lay spot where the animal laid down was even bigger than a full grown deer. That looked bigger than a "Bob cat" to me. "bobcat",---one word. Failed English in HS---gotcha! :) Doug in Michigan
Just seen trail cams of one in luzurn. I seen a dead one on the side of 23 when i was about 17 south of flint. Thought it was a deer until i seen the tail then seen the buisness end w its mouth open. Didnt think much of it because its not a cryptid. Until i heard no no no. Theyre arnt in the l.p. pleanty of sightings. They r here and breeding
I'm commenting in 2024 I live in mid Michigan and we had a cougar right behind our house,within 5 feet of the house. There has been a breeding population of cougar in the lower peninsula since at least the early 1990s. But the dnr for whatever reason continued to deny their existence until just recently. And even now they claim that the ones which have been sighted are just passing through.
@Faber-cator they denied it until I asked if I could shoot it. Since then I have stumbled on 3 of their dens. Near stanwood, east of mesick, and just south of Cadillac.
I swear the state has something to do with dangerous animals in "our woods". It just does not make sense that Bears, Cougars, Wolves, Coyote up the yin yang, (but I know they existed during my 70's trapping days. Very few), and even possibly Black Panthers, which I may have seen myself, and others have verified with sighting also, (North side of Muskegon), from what I understand. I was 10 years old in 1974, just moved to Mason County, and went camping with my new neighbor kid/friend of my same age,--------------------------------------and nothing in the woods could hurt us. Now if they are planted here, (which would explain their protection, and the saying, "they are indigenous", or "Your yard/woods?", (as if the animal has the deed to your property), that makes me wonder. If they can bring a T-Rex back to life, as it once may lived here,---would they put that in our back yards too? If you want to understand if something is moral or not,---take the idea to it's extreme,---and take another look.
By the way. Our woods, were just as safe in 1992 when I moved to Grand Rapids. I moved back exactly 25 years later,----surprise. Several animals that can kill you,----and plenty of turkeys,----so maybe they won't?
Yeah in maple city Michigan in the pinky Peninsuala*? their was a dual and single witness sighting not to metion the chick had seen two times around 2 am and theirs been warning sides for years ... their anti social and alone and only eclipsed by being ganged up on so they hide when their an apex predetor and it brings a sort of peicefullness to them and deep respect... im emotional about them i wont lie lol but i havent seen one
My wife was walking in the field behind our house in Saginaw county she said she seen a cat like animal with a long tail she said it was definitely not a coyote I showed her a picture of a cougar she said that’s what I saw.
Had a lion above me in a tree , I pulled my side arm after it hit the ground. It ran off. There were deer bones under the large limb that it was on. This was a property that I leased for hunting along the st. Joe River in central lower Michigan in 2008. My hunting partner was the first to see it and yelled for me to pull my side arm.
