Updated: Cougar in Woodbury?
One resident thought so, and took a picture of a paw print she found in a wooded area behind her home.
Updated: 10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15 Patch contacted Dan Stark, wolf specialist with the DNR, about the print. Here's what he said: This is clearly a canine track. Probably a large dog. The nails are very obvious and are relatively blunt compared to the razor sharp claws of a cougar. Cougars usually do not leave claw marks because they walk with claws retracted like a domestic cat. Also the track is very symmetrical (i.e. the inner and outer toes match up). On a cougar track the inner middle toe leads slightly and then they arch to the outside. Original post Celeste McTighe says she and her husband see plenty of wildlife in the woods behind their Boulder Ridge Road home. “You name it, we get it,” she said. But the Woodbury resident and her …
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Kris Janisch
10:35 am on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Wait, a kangaroo? (Maybe I'm missing something.) There was this one over at Prestwick: http://patch.com/A-jZpp more ›