Sitting in my recliner looking out the window saw what I thought was a fox about 100 yards away. The cougar was not startled when I called the dog and I walked briskly back to the house.Įarly morning saw it sitting next to our fenced pasture. I called my dog that was running around in the pasture. Quiet area.ħ/18/21 Early morning (6:15 a.m) saw it sitting next to our fenced pasture. Walked down road in front of vacation cabin in smokies. I was fumbling with my phone to get a picture when he made a long jump back in to the woods / swamp. color of deer but paws head and tail were classic mountain lion. I slowed to avoid the deer jumping into path. 8 miles west of CR 25.About 4:30 AM with my headlights I saw what first seemed to be a deer just off the road. It wasn’t far from the biking trails that are along the wolf river. It was hard to tell what it was until I got right up next to it and it raised its head. I had just crossed over Germantown Parkway heading north, when I spotted it on the right side of the road. It was tan in color and had a black tip on its long tail. It was three times the size of a house cat. Not sure if this is something that needs to be reported but I am traveling back to Ohio from our camping trip to the Smoky Mountains and just now at mile marker 154 on 75 north there was a young cougar right on the other side of the guardrail in a cleared area. It stayed there and watched us from about 30 yards away for a good 35 minutes. My coworker thought it was a dog but after it came into sight it was a big cat weighing at least 75 lbs. Was at work removing some debris from behind a woman's house in a slightly wooded area in a big neighborhood and across the drainage ditch something big came out. There was zero confusing this animal with a bobcat or domestic cat. I've loved and studied cats, large and small, my entire life. But I could clearly make out the distinctive black-tipped blunt tail. I questioned what I was seeing for a moment, as I'd always read and been told that cougars no longer inhabited the eastern part of the US. It was about halfway up the steep rock face, carefully picking its way upward. In July of 2010, I was driving west on I-64 near the sight of the then-recent second I-64 rock slide when I saw a cougar climbing the rocks off the right side of the interstate. If you believe you have seen a mountain lion, please report your sighting. Every potential sighting is important to the growing data pool of the occurrence of these creatures. The data still indicate there are no current breeding populations of these creatures within the state of Tennessee. Wildlife biologists believe these to be animals seeking to immigrate from the Midwest. However, the cougar, also known as puma, painter, mountain lion and panther, has been documented by trail camera and DNA analysis to, at least in passing, have recently been present in TN. Persistent reports of sightings over the years on this website have chronicled this belief. Though many residents believe these great cats have maintained small breeding populations across the state, data has consistently suggested that cougar was extirpated in Tennessee during the early 1900's. The aspect of the return of the onetime apex predator to Tennessee strikes fear in some and exultation in others. Vocatio Center for Life Calling and CareerĬougar Sightings in West Tennessee Cougars have been documented in Tennessee.Office of Student Leadership & Engagement.
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