11-02-2011, 02:18 PM
QuadCam: I hate to be the one to tell you but yes they are in Florida. In fact I saw one last month in the Grant Florida area crossing Grant road.
They just have a lot of natural predators here and a lot of competition for food here with all the other dangerous animals( croc's, aligators, boars, snakes, panthers, bears, OH MY!).
They just aren't as populus as other animals.
The ranchers around us up north( North Dakota) hate them because they attack young cattle and carry diseases.
They also go after pheasant and quail so the hunters hate them also.
Of course the game wardens up north always kept telling us there were no mountain lions in North Dakota east of the Missouri river until a duck hunter shot and killed one in a cattail slough when he was duck hunting.
He was lucky his dog flushed the lion while he was set to fire and before he went into the slough farther.
I saw one crossing a highway in ND and the game wardens wouldn't believe it and then we found a track in a recently ploughed garden by our house before the hunter shot that one.
Unfortunately down here, almost everything lives that is introduced to the state because they don't have to survive the harsh winters they have up north.
Lee
They just have a lot of natural predators here and a lot of competition for food here with all the other dangerous animals( croc's, aligators, boars, snakes, panthers, bears, OH MY!).
They just aren't as populus as other animals.
The ranchers around us up north( North Dakota) hate them because they attack young cattle and carry diseases.
They also go after pheasant and quail so the hunters hate them also.
Of course the game wardens up north always kept telling us there were no mountain lions in North Dakota east of the Missouri river until a duck hunter shot and killed one in a cattail slough when he was duck hunting.
He was lucky his dog flushed the lion while he was set to fire and before he went into the slough farther.
I saw one crossing a highway in ND and the game wardens wouldn't believe it and then we found a track in a recently ploughed garden by our house before the hunter shot that one.
Unfortunately down here, almost everything lives that is introduced to the state because they don't have to survive the harsh winters they have up north.
Lee