I JUST SAW MY 1ST MOUNTAIN LION, WHEN YOU SEE ONE ITS UNMISTAKABLE, ITS FACE IS THAT OF A BIG CAT,ROUND AND MENACING, BUT WHEN YOU SEE ITS LONG TAIL AS IT RETREATS THERE IS NO DOUBT!. I KNOW WHAT IM LOOKING AT IN THE FIELD, i have downed much game since 1989-I WAS OUT HUNTING YESTERDAY OCT 27, 2008IN NEW FAIRFIELD, CT. Ive been hunting since 1989, I have seen many coyotes, bobcat, deer, etc. And my neighbor reports that she's seen one, and that there was in fact a mountain lion that came up on her porch one night. I recently heard that there were mountain lion sightings in Southbury, in the vicinity of the dump. I didn't get a good look at the cat's rear end and have no memory of what the tail looked like. (I actually had one disappear once in the split second it took to blink.) But this cat was langourous and decidely unafraid. Bobcats are much more fearful than this cat was and seem to always scurry away from people ASAP. I raced up to the spot where she had stepped off the road in to the woods and she just looked at me when I stopped the car. She just sauntered across the road, completely without fear. I was too far away to see the big cat really close up, but noted that this kitty was absolutely too large to be a bob cat. A VERY, VERY large, unusually long-legged cat crossed the road. Last February I was driving home in late afternoon along Kettletown Road, just across the road from the Southbury dump. The creature sighted was a "golden animal" "the size of a baby deer" and was reported in a tree at one point. UPDATE: I posted this last week, and lo and behold in a hometown paper, the Shelton Weekly, there's a report of a third appearance of a large "cat-like" animal in the White Hills section of town. I personally have done a lot of hiking around the state and never have come across any of these creatures, but that doesn't mean they're not out there. Fish & Wildlife Service has created a site dedicated to the Easter Cougar, and is trying to verify the existence of this elusive creature. Officials at the Department of Environmental Protection maintain that the majority of sightings are either bobcats or coyotes, and cite the lack of physical evidence (no footprints, no dead carcases, etc.). Since the story was published on in 2005, there have been numerous eyewitness accounts posted from people who believe that they have seen a mountain lion here, primarily in the less-populated and more-forested northeastern and northwestern corners of the state.
One of our most commented-upon stories in the past few years is " Seeing Ghosts" by Brigitte Ruthman, which explores the possibility of mountain lions (or "cougars" or "catamounts" or "pumas") having returned to the state.
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