Dogs usually you can see the claw marks in the print and this I couldn't. It was also at a spot I highly doubt someone would walk their dog.

where is the print from

coyote...their are plenty of them..

Got some big ones that pass through my yard here in central jersey...........

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This cat was never found and this town, a town the cat was spotted in a year ago and the town I was in today are all within a few miles and are connected by woods and farms. I was just wondering if I'm seeing it wrong or I may get another shot at this thing.

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This cat was never found and this town, a town the cat was spotted in a year ago and the town I was in today are all within a few miles and are connected by woods and farms. I was just wondering if I'm seeing it wrong or I may get another shot at this thing.

 

Maybe, not out of the question, only thing this year I would question it more being we had a very mello winter and don't think food was every a problem.

Had a +70 # cat walk out in front of me and my son while deer hunting in somerset county, NJ......made a plaster cast of his right front foot and have it framed in my office......they're here and they've been here a long while.

yup i saw a cat in the barrens off of exit 74 while deer hunting

I know multiple people that saw it and I'm friends with the game warden and he said flat out yeah they are around. I'm gonna head over there again tomorrow and poke around again.

Chupacabra

There's definitely mountain lions around, the F & G doesn't want to officially acknowledge their existence in NJ. I saw one about 20 years ago coming back one night from trout fishing on the Flatbrook. I was driving over the mountain, headed toward Blairstown, on the NPS Delaware Water Gap property and the guy in front of me almost hit it.

 

That track is a little hard to make out in that sandy soil you have down there, but it looks to big to be a coyote.

There was supposedly a mountain lion sighted in Roxbury Twp (where I live) by a police officer in 2006.

i agree it could be a coyote track. To small for a lion track. Was there 4 tracks or two. Lions, wolves tend to run in their own track,

Is everybody talking about cougars or are some people here reporting their personal bobcat sightings? I ask because I see a lot of references to "cats" and it's a little ambiguous to me.

Is everybody talking about cougars or are some people here reporting their personal bobcat sightings? I ask because I see a lot of references to "cats" and it's a little ambiguous to me.

 

They're talking about cougars not bobcats. There have been multiple reported sightings in NJ. The pic above is too wide to be coyote. A coyote is about half the width.

The width is what grabbed my attention

The cat that me and my son saw on the farm we hunt in Somerset Co. was actually feeding on turkey.....least he was eating good.

Found many of the turkey carcases he left daily during the hunting season....also one deer belly hanging off a limb in an Ole' tree....was nice.....the Eastern Cougar.

I am no expert on tracks, but I believe that cats generally have retractable claws, and dogs don't. The mountain lion/cougar prints I saw on the internet did not have any claws showing.

 

Do coyote prints show the claws? The print above does not seem to show any claw marks.

If I can get a good picture of the coyote prints I have here I will take one for your comparison. Found a nice size one today.

There is deff plenty to eat where these tracks were and we're at the base of a 12 cliff.

I am no expert on tracks, but I believe that cats generally have retractable claws, and dogs don't. The mountain lion/cougar prints I saw on the internet did not have any claws showing.

 

Do coyote prints show the claws? The print above does not seem to show any claw marks.

 

That's right. A coyote or dog print will generally show the nails. The difference between dog and coyote is a dog has a wider print with shorter nails.

 

I used to hunt the newark watershed area not far from cherry ridge and the coyotes would be howling up a storm by the swamps. Very eerie.

This is the most pronounced of the tracks in out field. They must have been running the deer path, this is right along it.

 

 

Coyote and fox are happily living in the suburbs by me. The GSP is their only nemesis.

 

Lots of bobcat sightings and accidental snaring's this season in the wilds of N.J., as evidenced on another site, including a few roadside altercations.

 

http://www.newjersey...ticle119099.htm

http://www.newjersey...ticle119186.htm

http://www.northjers...given_help.html

 

 

A large one on camera upstate New York in this link -

http://www.wbng.com/...html?img=1&mg=t

There was a mountain lion sighting in Marlboro last year IIRC. Two blocks from my old office.

I'm pretty sure I saw a cougar in Northeast Bergen County when I was a kid. We had Green Acres behind our house giving it plenty of space to hunt deer and go undetected. My parents dismissed my claim as a dog when I said I saw a lion.

Track very well may have been a bob cat.

As for cougars, wildlife biologists in the state concede there has been no verifiable sighting of one, but that doesn't rule out the possibility that they can exist here. I do find it odd that despite hundreds of trail cameras that hunters and trappers have deployed throughout the state over the years in every management zone, none have ever disclosed evidence of the big cat. The roadside kill in 2009 of a bobcat in northwestern N.J. weighed 59 lbs. That's a very big, and very well-fed bobcat.