no cougars in the eastern us any more. yeah... one of them could fuck you up, but there are none in your areal
Just the occasional wanderer. Elusive as the adults are they could be a few around.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/07/mountain-lion-killed-in-conn-had-walked-from-south-dakota/1DNA tests show that a 140-pound mountain lion killed last month on a Connecticut highway had walked more than 1,500 miles east from the Black Hills of South Dakota., state officials said today.
The epic journey was the longest ever recorded for a mountain lion.
"The confirmation of a wild mountain lion in our state was the first recorded in more than 100 years," said Daniel Esty, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. "This is the first evidence of a mountain lion making its way to Connecticut from western states and there is still no evidence indicating that there is a native population of mountain lions in Connecticut."
Male mountain lions normally "disperse" in search of females, but usually travel only about 100 miles.
The big cat, which was fully grown and younger than six, was hit by a car and killed June 11, 2011 on the Wilbur Cross Parkway in Milford, Conn. It had been seen earlier in June in Greenwich.