HomeAvon Sighting
On Wednesday, March 10, 2010 I left Huckleberry Hill Road and turned onto Chevaz at about 7:10 a.m. About 2/3rds of the way down something leaped from a residential lawn into the road and then took a second leap which put the hugh animal on the other side. At first I thought it was a deer, but then realized it was lower to the ground and had a pretty long tail. When I pulled up along side of where it landed, it was walking away from the road into the wood line. It was a large cat, having a tail that appeared to be almost as long as its body, sweeping downward, almost touching the ground with a slight upward twist at the end. I believed I had seen a mountain lion. We have bobcats in our area, but this definitely was not a bobcat. I called the DEP who questioned me at lengths in particular about the tail, and finally said he really thought I had seen a large cat, but couldn't confirm that it was a mountain lion.
July 7th, 2010 - 22:11
This is nothing new in this area. On sachem rd there are sightings by the Mailman who delivers to this area. Also New road before the new construction
July 23rd, 2010 - 12:45
I saw something that looked like a mountain lion on Old Farms Road - run over - about July 20th. Anyone else see it? long long tail, lion color and huge catlike body.
June 30th, 2011 - 18:30
pretty sure i spotted a small mountain lion crossing Hollister dr near Lovely st at about 5:45 tonight. vIt was some type of feline with very small ears
July 6th, 2011 - 22:16
A few years back I was driving south on Lovely Street with my mother and wife coming back from Canton, and we saw a large mountain lion and 2 large cubs slowly crossing the street in front of us. All three of us got a good visual as they all slipped into the woods to the side of the house just past the entrance to Farmington Woods. When I told my mom and wife they were mountain lions, they agreed that is what we had seen after we had pulled up pictures on the internet.
My mom has the exact date that we spotted them because she wrote to a few people the next day only to be completely dismissed. It was probably about 4 years ago. No doubt in mind there had to be at least 4 mountain lions in CT (including the one that fathered the cubs) only a few years back but based on all these posts I will go so far as say that there are dozens.
My wife just clued me in as to why the DEP categorically denies their existence. Apparently if the State acknowledges they do exist, because of their endangered status, environmental protection/ conservation issues could cause a significant impact to the State economy i.e. certain land would have to protected and would be unable to be developed in the future. I find that plausible.