Tracks are common and seeing them live are not all that rare either. I get pictures are the time from friends in the area that catch them on camera or just see them. I have seen many times and have run across their kills a lot.

Good one, Bernie. I usually pull into my garage at less than interstate speed. If you planned to post videos, it didn’t happen.

isn't that why it was in Minneapolis don't the parks and suburban backyards hold the most deer in the state?

that is how Madison is you can see the capitol rotunda and 20 deer all in the same view while coming in on hwy 14

Locals have them on camera from time to time but DNR says they are just transeants and nothing to worry about....

And for now, I believe that.
Seems to always be a young male killed.

the next line when you start getting cubs on trail cams is
" not a significant breeding population"

19 or 20 years ago there was a mother with two kittens south of Long Point shores of Lake of the Woods,those were the only kittens I ever heard of in Mn.

Meeker County. Minnesota. The crow river bottoms have them. Buddy captures them on there cameras all the time. Also his son stuck a deer 2 years ago. Cat got to it first. Had it buried under a pile of leaves and grass.
The kid won’t hunt down there any more. I can’t blame him either.

That's close to me. I've never saw a track or anything. How often do they actually have them on Camera? I can't see a breeding population in Meeker County, maybe a very rare transient but I'm open to being wrong.

a guy show me pic. of a mother with young, he said it was 10 years old pic. 2 miles from Escanaba, where there is lots of houses and people, maybe some of you heard about 102 a cat first tree in wis. the wis. dnr said that the ear tag was from North Dakota, well there was a few pic, of it going across the u.p. there was a story in a magazine about it, about how it was a young male and that it was getting kick out of other males' territory. well, a few years later it got hit by a car on the east coast,

News here says your Minneapolis cat was actually a Nebraska collared cat.
From Lincoln Journal star last night…
Jim

Now you have heard of at least two more sets, just on this thread.

Oh, They're here all right

We have some ranchers we know in North Dakota, and they have their share of cats. Quota there is filled every year in short order.

A bow hunter in WI killed one this fall, it was stalking him in his tree stand. Guess he didn’t get in trouble. If it was a wolf you better have tooth marks in your hide that exactly matches the dead wolf.

yes lots of pics around Kettle Moraine a few years ago so about 45-55 minutes form Milwaukee

I didn’t even think the story was hardly news worthy. Cougar in MN isn’t very rare and several have been spotted in metro previously. DNR hasn’t ever denied a transient population.

"Breeding population" is what they deny

Actually they have clearly stated there is no evidence that Minnesota has a self-sustaining, breeding population. This encounter was just one of many transient males passing through.

Yes, and I’ve heard of a lot of evidence of a breeding population in Mn. You wouldn’t think Mama and kittens would transient too far!