Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 10:20 am
It's interesting what people see. I'm the type that needs to be shown this stuff rather than rely on eye witness accounts. My dad's neighbors have been claiming to have seen a mountain lion in his area. A couple of months ago I woke up there and was looking out the window and saw a "dog" crossing the driveway down by the gate. As I watched I realized this thing was moving like a cat. Maybe a bobcat? Color was wrong (yellow) and had a full tail. Hair was too long for it to be a mountain lion, but it was the right color. It is just a freakishly large cat. The size of a medium sized dog. But I could easily understand someone seeing that cat lying in my dad's yard without something to reference to scale the size and thinking it was a mountain lion (as a school bus driver claimed to have seen lying under the trees in my dad's yard).
Wild hogs are claimed to be seen a lot as well. With all the trail cams I've set, I've never caught one of those either. Plus, their tracks are a cloven hoof just like a deer so I think a lot of hog evidence really isn't. Not I'll be hammering the area with trail cams 24/7 soon, so I'll better be able to tell you in a year for sure.