What was it?

[jimbos43]

Last week my boys and I was going north on us-31 between Carp lake and where 31 ties into I-75 just south of the bridge. About 35 yards in front of me a 40-50 pound cat, golden/yellow in color shot out from my side of the road, crossed in front of me like a shot, then into the opposing lane and proceeded to get wiped out by a R.V. going in the other direction. By that time me and the r.v. was just about even and I never got a good look at the cat. What was it? Lynx,bobcat or are they the same? Cougar? not big enough I think. Never seen one before, whatever it was. It was about 4 times as large as a regular house cat.

Oh yeah, when I looked in my rearview mirror I seen it was dead, but when we came back the same way about 4 hours later, someone had picked it up, and it was gone.

[weatherby]

I would have to say you seen a bobcat get hit.just my opinion by going on what you said.

[jimbos43]

I kind of think so also that's what it was, it was a damn unfortunate thing. See my first bobcat and it gets squashed. None of us where very happy over the matter.

[weatherby]

i had an uncle who lived in baraga county and every year during the winter while ice fishin or rabbit hunting kept seeing glimpses of a big cat with a long tail.he said it was as long as a deer but only half as high. he never got a good look at and hasn't seen it in a couple of years. after him explaining what it looked like I showed him a piture of a cougar and he swore up and down that's what it was, but he never got a good close sighting of it.just a glimps hear and there.and that's the last he seen of the great ghost cat. true story.

[shooter921]

It sounds like a bobcat to me, but trout makes a good point. My friend has 2 cats that are just plain huge! They could eat my cat and he is pretty big. I guess you'll never know.

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[NEMichsportsman]

:eek: I will have to sign on to the Bobcat theory if it was indeed a non-domesticated animal you saw. However, my cousins has a housecat that is 28 lbs... I suppose anything is possible.

Weatherby- I have heard talk from some wildlife biologists that there is a distinct possibility of cougars in the UP...seems to me that I read some statement from the DNR to that effect as well although there are no confirmations tp date.


JP

[jimbos43]

Of course I thought "housecat", the reason i'm 90% sure it wasn't was the muscular structure of the cat. When it took off from my side of the road, it really ripped across my lane, and you could just see the heavy, thick muscles in it's rear haunches working to get itself moving. Has anyone ever seen a bobcat while out deer hunting? Maybe their common, and no big deal, but for all the time i've spent in the woods through the years, I never have.