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26Jul/120

Murder?

Last night my husband and I were awakened by what sounded like a woman screaming. I remembered talking with my coworkers recently about Mountain Lions and, after looking up the sound online, I am sure that is what we were hearing. Watertown, CT near the Morris, CT town line.

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23Jul/122

Big cat in Cheshire CT

Yesterday about 10a.m. I looked out the window and crossing the yard was a very large grey brown cat. Weighed about 70-80pounds and was carrying something in it’s mouth, an animal that was about 5-10pounds and brown. Had a long tail with black underside. There have been bobcat in the yard and this wasn’t the …

Tagged as: Cheshire 2 Comments
18Jul/124

Mountain Lion on Marlborough/Hebron town line

My family and I just moved to Hebron, CT. As my mother and her husband were on their way home from seeing the new house, they both confirm seeing a mountain lion crossing the street. They said at first it looked like a Golden Retriever, then they realized it was a very large cat by …

Tagged as: Hebron, Marlborough 4 Comments
18Jul/124

NEW CAT

There seems to be multiple sightings of large cats with bobbed tails by people with knowledge of the differences, tufts, size, etc. Are bobcats and cougars capable of interbreeding like a “horse/donkey” “dog/coyote” “lion/tiger”? Do we know??

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15Jul/120

Young Mountain Lion while jogging

7/13/12 about 3pm I was jogging on the road but in a heavily wooden area. What I believe to be a young mountain lion jogged unto the road about 25 ft in front of me. It stayed on the road for about 25ft and darted down a rocky driveway. I was on Burr Rd between …

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15Jul/122

I know what I saw

About one month ago, driving on Hurlbutt Street in Wilton I saw a young cougar crossing the road as it leapt into the woods. After comparing what I saw and numerous photos on the web, I confirmed what I saw. This was not a bob cat as it’s tail was not “bobbed”. It was not …

Tagged as: Wilton 2 Comments
15Jul/125

Sighting

Read a story yesterday in the Advocate regarding your efforts. I work in Farmington at the UCONN Health Center and last year while driving into the campus on a Saturday afternoon reporting for an evening shift at approximately 1400 hours, I saw a lion crossing a roadway on the hospital site at a fast lope. …

Tagged as: Farmington 5 Comments
11Jul/121

Young Mountain Lion in West Hartford

I am relatively new to the area and on my way home at 4:50pm today while exiting from I-84 EB Exit 43 to West Hartford Center I witnessed a fairly large cat cross in front of me (I originally thought mountain lion or cougar but was not positive). I am guessing it was young, and …

Tagged as: West Hartford 1 Comment
7Jul/125

spotted cougar while fishing farmington river

June 26th,2012. fishing in the farmington river (new Hartford ) appx. 11:00 am I looked upstream and noticed a large cat standing ankle deep in the water on the west side of river. It stood there for a couple of Minutes watching me (it was appx 125 yards away) Then it decided to swim across …

Tagged as: new hartford 5 Comments
7Jul/1213

Mountain Lion in Chaplin

I spotted a Mountain Lion in Chaplin, CT on July 6, 2012 around 8:30-8:45pm. Earlier in the evening I was cooking with vegetable oil and while I was doing the dishes, that evening, I dumped the oil in the woods, not more than 15 feet from the house. I have never had a problem doing …

Tagged as: Chaplin 13 Comments
4Jul/121

Bloomfield Mountain lion

On 6/21/2012 4:50 in morning , I was driving south on Maple Ave.in Bloomfield. Taking off from a stop sign, with a small land trust area on the corner of Maple ave. and Burr rd. on my r/s some large animal ran out of the land trust and crossed the road in front of me, …

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