Someone took a PHOTO of a mountain lion in Newcastle a few years ago.Fish and Game refused t acknowledge it..Wonder why?

I have personally seen mountain lions twice in Maine. Should have asked for a DNA sample, I guess.

My dad had some cat in his back yard that looked like a big panther. It was huge and all black. It was hunting birds. That was just a couple years ago out in Burnham.

Mountain Lion in Maine ehhhh? Sounds about as believable as Big Foot walking through Acadia. These animals have been gone for a long time and they are not coming back anytime soon.

They don't acknowledge past sitings because they don't want to be embarrassed about how clueless they are. Can't these darn animals read the State line signs?

My son and I saw a mountain lion in 2005 at the beginning of Rocky Lake Stream where it dumps out of Rocky Lake in the Northfield/Marion area (between US 191 and 192.

It actually was swimming across the stream, came out and up on a rock, shook itself off and turned and looked at us for a few seconds before disappearing into the brush.

I have spent a lifetime on the water and in the woods and know what I saw and my son, who is employed at a zoo in the midwest and sees them every day, turned and looked at me from the front of the canoe and said 'That was a mountain lion"!

No doubt with the long tail with the black tip and cat like face and ears and tawny coloring.

A while later there was an article in the Machias Valley News about a sighting off the Eastern Ridge Road out of Northfield. Probably the same cat...or cat family?

We actually saw it from a distance and thought it was the head of someone swimming across the stream (it is pretty wide at the mouth....more like a river there). I looked for a boat or canoe real quick to see if someone had overturned or fallen overboard, saw nothing, and as we paddled closer realized it was an animal's head. We had no idea what is was unti it got on that big rock and shook itself off.

i love mountain lions.

Yeah, so where is the story here? I've seen them, my friends have seen them people have been seeing them in Maine for years.

I met a guy recently that saw one a year or two back, he has spent more time in the woods than anyone else I know. As it turns out, the place he saw it was less than 1/2 a mile from where myself and a hunting partner saw one a year earlier. There is no mistaking one with a domestic animal, bobcat, lynx or anything else. If it was not a mountain lion, then none of us have any other explanation for it.

BTW it was between the Studmill Rd and Rt.9 in Beddington where we saw it.

The only thing I saw the other day on the studmill road was 2 bear, 2 trout, 1 rabbit and a bunch of empty miller lite cans hitting the back bed of the truck.

They named that road after me you know.

My cousin and I saw one about 20 years ago in Northfield that far from the Eastern Ridge Road as the crow flies. Nobody can tell me any different . Sounds to me like when they said there is no wolves here then some poor hunter shoots one and the fine him for it. WE have more mountain lions than DWIF says there are or they care to tell us about

Were you headed Dew east towards Danforth?

Was the water that high that you saw two trout on the road??

Mountain Lions roam an extremely large territory and they are very elusive and smart as heck to stay hidden from humans (or scared stiff whcih is also smart).

I do not doubt they've been sighted, but rarely due to the fact that they stay well away from us. But I'm sure they are out there watching.

I was headed west for a while towards Fletcher field, top secret little honey hole.

Then Dew east towards Princeton because the beer was getting low.

I actually caught the 2 trout....

A few years ago the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) told everyone they were nuts when they reported Puma sittings. The public were not smart enough to tell the difference from a pussy cat and a Mountain lion. One finally one got hit by a car and then the DNR announced their biologists had “discovered” Cougars.

I saw Elvis at Dairy Queen yesterday

I have seen a mountian lion on two seperate ocassions in the past. It's not hard to figure out what you have seen when you get a good look.Magnificent animal.

Telefunkin, did you see any pink elephants?

I smell mountain lion tax. Alert Baldy.

I saw what looked like a big cat on Rt 1 in Whiting between Indian lake and Gardiners lake last week it crossed the road about 50 yards in front of my truck I got a good look at thia as did my wife and it had a long tail not a short bob cat like tail

nothing would surprize me it could be possible

That Lady and her kids are very very lucky, The Mountains Lion was most likely stacking the kids, that what they do best, they won't mess with the bigger people, I've seen this behavior in cougar / Mountain lions before, they won't even eyeball an adult with kids, they will be %100 focused on the children. she really needs to becareful, I have a sneaky feeling the crazy cat will come back. I'm not trying to scare anyone, but I'm just calling it as I see it.

I meant Stocking not stacking, it's been a long day due excuss the typos.

I had a Cougar hit on me at the bar last week...

lol RussHermon.

"Mountain Lion in Maine ehhhh? Sounds about as believable as Big Foot walking through Acadia. These animals have been gone for a long time and they are not coming back anytime soon. "

You might want to rethink that, Maine62. Look up the big cat problems they are having in Britain. Over there, it's likely to be pets that were released into the wild which have probably gone on to breed. Those cats can survive nearly anywhere. Here in Maine, we do have confirmed cougar in some of our Canadian neighbors. Perhaps they crossed the border like the few wolves that show up once in a while or they may even just be leftovers that weren't hunted out of existance. There are also some pet cougar that have lived in Maine. Could be escapees or released by someone that couldn't afford to feed theirs all the raw meat that they need.

I've saw one on Rt 9 in Beddington about 3 years ago, it ran down a bank and then across the road and up over the opposite bank right in front of me. There was no mistaking what it was, it was huge and fast.

I saw one back in the 1990's while hunting behind my inlaws home. I was sitting on an oppossite trail when it came out from behind the trees, sniffing the ground. It never noticed me. I looked at it through my riflescope, no mistaking the black under its eyes, the long, muscular tan body and the long tail. It continued up the trail across from me until it went out of sight. I left in a hurry, didn't want it to come out from behind me! I called the wardens and they said I must of seen a house cat! You don't say, here kitty, kitty, to something like that! People wondered why I didn't shoot it. No. 1-against the law, 2- it didn't attack me, so no reason to. If I had shot it, I would have had the proof but would've been in big trouble. The state and the wardens want to stay clueless, that is until someone has to shoot one in selfdefense. Too bad if would have to come to that to make a believer out of them. Sorry if this gets repeated on here, sent similar one earlier today but didn't make it on here for some reason.

Telefunkinu47, I doubt you saw a rabbit, as the rabbit population has retreated south below Thomaston. You probably saw a snowshoe hare.

No pink elephants.

Thanks for clearing up the rabbit/snowshoe hare issue.

I could not tell the difference I call them all a rabbit.

Didn't see Elmer Fedd.

Good one Hippy Kicker, LMFAO

begformercy & hippy - LOL!!!! Too funny!!!

Last time a Mountain Lion was killed in Maine was 1932...If there was truly a population, carcasses would show up. Cars would hit them, hunters would shoot them and they would die of natural causes. I'm not doubting a couple have wondered down from Canada, but it seems like everyone thinks they're in the backyard....

20 years ago there was one in the Calais area, my son saw it behind our barn, and it was sighted near the hospital and down along the river.

You seem to hear a lot of sightings from down east/washington county. I have heard of numerous sightings around princeton, perry, pembroke. Even my grandmother said that one leaped the entire width of the road in front of her car one night. There is a lot of spooky sheit down east. I know if i see one I'm gonna blast him and get some evidence. A lot of people didn't believe me when I saw a praying mantis one day in central maine.

About 3 years ago, I saw a gentleman walking a trail and coming toward him in the opposite direction... was a long, lean, light colored, LARGE cat with a long tail. Looked like a mountain lion to me! The thing just eyeballed him for... well... longer than I would have been able to stand there for... and then continued on another path on the trail. I was inside and almost had a heart attack watching this whole scenario play out. Happened in Rockland, Maine to be exact. With all these sightings... I'd say we have mountain lions in Maine!

BTW... this was no house cat!!

I lived in Southern California in the 70's .We hiked in the San Gaberial Mountains into very remote places, saw a bear once.The books we read about wild life stated that the last mountain lion in the area was shot in 1908.everyone believed that there was no mountain lions. Since the 70's there have been attacks and a few deaths from the big cats in that same area.Don't discount them here.

I hope they're out there, being smart and staying away from humans.

The department of Inland fish and wildlife will never acknowledge mountain lions in Maine until there is a population large enough for them to manage. It seems to be "policy." In the late 1970's and early 80's they were still saying that we had no coyote population either, it was just a few hybrid "coydogs." And we all know how that turned out! Give it another 20 years, then they'll acknowledge it.

I was staying with relatives in Northern Maine and I reported what I thought was a mountain lion sighting on the morning of July 29th, 2009. I was so surprised and not really sure what I had seen I ran to my neighbors.

When I first saw it I thought "oh a domestic cat", but what grabbed my attention was how big it was and I knew it was not a house cat. The tail was the thing that stuck out, I have seen bobcats in this area before and I am familiar with what they look like. I was so surprised we reported it to the game warden. We were not able to find any tracks but mind you it rained non stop for days before and and hour or so after I spotted what may have been a mountain lion. I have been researching since I had this unusal sighting and I am surprised how most do not believe they exist in Maine, I really wish I could have gotten a photo. I forever will carry the photo of what I saw in my frontal lobe.

Today I read a story on mountain lion sightings in Bath. I decided to research an old sighting I had and came across this page. I just wanted to add that I saw a mountain lion in topsham in the early to mid 1990's. I never reported it but, I am sure of what I saw. I am unsure of why these sightings are hard for people to believe. It is not like I also saw Big Foot, an alien and a Zebra; as these live in other places!