Mountain lions in Eastern Connecticut? 

A mountain lion curled up on my mothers back porch in Avon CT. Her friend got pictures, but DEP said it must have been pictures taken in the Mid West. They lie right to your face.

I had the same experience as the first man in this video had. I was on Rte. 45 in Warren, Ct. & a mountain lion jumped in front of my car & it only took one & 1/2 strides to cross the two lanes. I was able to get a good look at it. A very long body (large) & the tail was about 3 ft. long & it had a distinct black/dark brown spot on the tip of its tail. It was broad daylight & I was going slow. I know what I saw.

I grew up in Terryville Connecticut from 1998 - 2008. my house was in a very wooded area, and one morning as I was going out to my bus stop (I must’ve been 7 or 8 years old) i came across a mountain lion laying across my driveway basking in the sun. My first instinct was to run, so I dropped my backpack and ran right back into my house! I still tell people that story, but I don’t think they understand how surreal it was to see this giant cat just chillen in my driveway

honestly they found that it had DNA that traced back to the Dakotas. I have DNA trace back from Italy... does that mean I made the long trek to CT from Italy! its ridiculous the information they feed you

Just this week at Ward Pound Ridge preservation: I saw one at sunset, leaving a residential area and walking across the road in front of my car and into the bush of the preserve area.

A mountain lion crossed right in front of me at 10:30 am this morning on Rt.69 in Wolcott, CT near Mad River Rd. Came out one side of the road and walked slowly across both lanes. It just looked at my car and didn't seem to care. I had to stop my car to not hit it. Very cool sighting!!

Seeing as how the wildlife authorities released some mountain lions into a remote part of Eastern Connecticut years ago, and kept it quiet - for them to be bald-face lying about it, is not doing anyone any favors. Watch your backs when you're out hiking people - they're out there, and they're waiting to pounce on you. ;)

Uh huh, one was hit in 2012 on the road in Milford. One photographed in the 1980s in a tree in eastern CT, and confirmed by UCONN. Odd they seem to forget...

So many independent sightings almost prove that mountain lions are in Connecticut. As a matter of fact, I’m virtually sure they are all over the Northeast. Most states have landscapes and prey that could or do support these wonderful native carnivores. I sure hope they are in my part of the country so that they would help control our overly populated whitetail deer. And, in conclusion, if you see one, enjoy the sight, but please do not harm it.

We have been seeing Mountain Lions for years here in New York in Columbia and Dutchess Counties. We have sent photo proof to the DEP here in New York with no reply. My friend has taken a photo of one basking on some rocks and I have seen tracks near Taconic State Park near Milerton NY Numerous times. Also have seen Black Bear in that Area.

I saw one on the edge of the state forest in Naugatuck about 10 years ago , it saw us from about 60 feet , took one kings which was close to 10 feet, then 5 seconds later took off running at a seemingly impossible speed. It wasn’t a bobcat I’ve seen multiple bobcats in the same area and this was much faster and bigger

Friend of mine just found a dead deer 30ft up in a tree in Eagle Ville just outside of the UCONN campus. 10/10/2020

About one month before the cat was killed in Westport I was driving on Grey's Bridge Road in Brookfield (one lane either way) I stopped short because about 10 feet ahead of me was a mountain lion just standing in the middle of the road. We looked at each other for a few seconds and then he leapt over the guardrail and ran into the bushes. I wonder if it was the one who later got hit in Westport.

I saw one walking right down the breakdown Lane next to Foxwoods Casino at 2 a. M. Stop the car right in front of it it turned around and growled at me and then just kept on walking. it eventually jumped over the guard rails Into the Woods. I told my first selectman he was full of crap because he claims there's none around. Like you would know.

One walked across the street in front of my car about 30 feet in front of me in Woodbridge back in January. Over near Rt. 63 and Burnt Swamp Rd. It was gorgeous and I was shocked. I never thought I would ever see one in the wild.

They are more common than most know. I have a friend that stopped hunting in a certain area in Indiana because there are too many cougars (hunting with his kids).

I was a teenager in conn in the 70’s . I had gotten my hunting license the state had a booklet saying they had a subspecies of mountain lion living in KENT CT . About the size of a German Shepard dog. I wish I still had that booklet Now they are saying over a hundred years.

Been seen in Litchfield County

I saw my first one in Woodstock 1977,then 2 in Scotland 2000...

100%true. I almost got attacked at the bank in new milford. Looked like a giant pitbull and came up behind me someone was honking and it scared them off.

Saw one in Windsor.

I saw mountain lions three times in Devil's Den, Weston. One time on a nature trail I walked up behind it and stopped. It turned around and we faced each other. This is typical of government workers. They aren't worth a tinker's damn. All idiots. They prey on ungulates; aka deer and they originally came to NA following them, but these Government employees believe that the overabundance of deer is no longer an attraction to them. I'll bet they all have PhD's that are freaken worthless. Trust the government they never lie.

saw one in thomaston ct last year. it was just walking across the street. my bosses wife also saw it next to the dam.

Deep won't tell the truth maybe to protect them I don't know but if you go back to the early 80s Dep fishing guide there is a article about how they were reintroducing the fisher cat back into the state today they say they migrated down from Vt and I'm pretty sure my memory serves me correctly

I have seen pictures people took of the mountain lions. My co worker took several w/ his cell phone on Mohawk Mountain in Goshen, Ct. They were camping & this was in 2019. Broad daylight pictures.

One was also confirmed killed off the ramp going to Bradley bowl in east Windsor back prolly 5 years now . My mom and sister and many headed to bowling saw it , photographed it and called it in

Have them absolutely here in Scotland ct ; near Norwich and Willie . Heard them , neighbors have seen them , town aco has had them in her barn , many residents have pics of them on their trail cams ... DEEP still is filing enough to deny it

I saw one in Rhode Island and it was quite large and agile as it ran across the road at night. This was in a residential area. DEM just wants to wait until something awful happens before they admit they are in the area.

I was shown pictures from my friend of a huge one in barkhamstead new hartford area earlier this year

We saw one last summer in Mystic on Shewville road

In view of the abundance of deer in the New England states, it is probable that those predators are returning to the area - perhaps they never were completely exterminated.

I pulled up right behind one right next to foxwoods at 2:30 in the morning one night. It was walking down the break down Lane.I pulled up behind it and it turned into snarled at me and jumped over the wire guardrail. No reason to make it up

They've been saying for decades that there haven't been any here in WNC since I was a kid, I'm 60 now, but I've seen them many times. Others have too.

I saw one in Marlborough Ct two years ago in the afternoon.

Seen one in NY while I was hunting.Sitting in a stand 3-4hrs in very thick brush.Never had I seen one ever.Been hunting 40Plus years.Reached in my pocket to get a pic.it seen me.What A animal fast, jump6to8 ft over brush,no noise not twig break nothing.So impressed the way it walk in the woods.Know yr hunting area.

I saw one in Franklin near the Baltic town line.

I have seen two of them on the Metacomet in Connecticut.

My neighbor has pics of them in ct

Saw one in Woodbury near the Sawmill antiques

Saw one in Woodstock in 77,2 in Scotland in 94 and a dead one on RT9 in Middletown...

Got 1 in RI game cam

Saw one in Eastford

still here in 2019, ct has mountain lions.i am known as the bobkat. i know what a bobcat looks like. don't trust deep, they don't know. dna dna, it takes 2 mountain lions to make a population. i've seen one, last summer,the other got hit by a car. our deer population can support mountain lions.

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Young male pumas will leave their mother at about 18 months old and start to wander with some going over a thousand miles it has been documented. Look at a map and trace from where definite cougar populations are to the east, CT is right in the 'bullseye' of the eastern migration route. Bears often do the same. Without females, who rarely wander that far from where they were born, there is no chance of a breeding population. But if females were stocked, say as a deer control measure, then there is a very good chance they could get reestablished with a ready supply of deer at hand.

like 10 years ago a mountain lion crossed the road in front of my mothers car in middlebury

Rumor is some mountain lions from PA were traded to CT for some Turkeys

I guess it told him his weight?

There here all state s are doing same thing. Well believe it here to stay long time to come

There here in kent and warren too.seen them

Game brings predators... The successful re-introduction of wild turkeys into CT is attracting coyotes and now mountain lions...

Yes there is indeed. Mountain lions and as I was getting home from work I heard one from the distance and as it was screaming the ting was getting closer and the faster I ran. They're scream scared the holy mess outta me and you ain't never seen a chunky short woman run so fast to her house!🤣I'm sure the neighbors got a good laugh .

the eastern puma is on the prowl.

They are everywhere’s! So are smartphones and trail cameras. Please show us non believers just one picture.

There has been recent sightings in Chaplin and Ashford. These people know the difference between a bobcat and mountain lion

Females don't go that far males go out far but that far come on people it was brought here by truck.

STOP CALLING THEM MOUNTAIN LIONS!!! CALL THEM COUGARS ONLY!!! THEY ARE NOT LIONS!!!