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That Gainesville resident was right, how is it that you constantly hear this shit but nobody ever seems to get a picture? Eastern Puma = Bigfoot.
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I tend to agree about most of these sightings and role my eyes when we are told it's a black panther, but there is certainly a possibility there's a big cat or 2 roaming here, pet or otherwise. There have been confirmed puma in the East (besides FL) and even a few killed East of the Mississippi in recent years, so the Bigfoot thing isn't a good comparison.
ETA: Ill ad that when we speak of potential puma sightings you have to understand these cats have been radio tracked traveling over 450 miles. There's a lot more places to hide here and obviously exponentially less cats in the East, so expect come and go and then disappear if we actually have had encounters. We've had~ 50 free roaming bison slain Virginia in the past few years and yet I don't see anyone demanding pics that the herd(gone wild) actually existed for few months in Loudoun, or the few loner bison that have appeared in other counties.