Comments on: Mysterious Animals Roaming Geauga County, Ohio

By: heidihi

heidihi — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:28:19 +0000

Yep, it’s a moufflon.

By: Lee Pierce

Lee Pierce — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:40:39 +0000

Joppa, lost buffalo? You must live in one BIG neighborhood.

By: 12inchPianist

12inchPianist — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:33:45 +0000

But how does it taste?

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:44:22 +0000

The only thing that I’m wondering is if the one with horns isn’t the male, then why doesn’t the other one have horns? I don’t think they are mouflons, although while googling pics I saw an ad for hunting them in Texas, so they are at least here in America. I was a little curious if there was possibly some interbreeding here. The one with horns definitely looks big horn sheepish, but the other one looks more deer-like. They are only cousins, and usually locale and decent numbers of their own kind keep them from thinking of mating. But if I was the only big horn sheepish thing somewhere in the middle of deer heaven, those does (female deer) would start looking pretty good.

By: fallofrain

fallofrain — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:28:05 +0000

A quick google search of Geauga County, Ohio turned up the business “Maple Hill Farm Exotics” in the town of Novelty (I like the town name). It specializes in “Sport and Exotic Sheep.” That’d be my guess as a place to start if anyone wants to pursue it further.

Geauga Co. looks like a nice place to visit.

By: Munnin

Munnin — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:25:29 +0000

Here’s a link to a page of mouflon photos on the web site of a German farm sanctuary.

http://www.heimat-fuer-tiere.de/english/gallery/mufflon.shtml

The fourth photo down features two individuals, and to me these look fairly similar to the subjects in the photo from Cleveland.

By: bill green

bill green — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:50:23 +0000

hey loren, very interesting new article about mysterious animals prowling ohio forests. thanks bill green. encounters of sasquatch creatures are realy popular in ohio as well.

By: DWA

DWA — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:37:51 +0000

fallofrain: The mouflon is probably the European analogue to the bighorn. Here's a pic of a ram.

By: joppa

joppa — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:23:06 +0000

Actually those aren’t deer, but some kind of goat/sheep – plenty of people raise exotics and plenty escape – we are still looking for an escaped buffalo in our neighborhood, who’s been roaming the around for 9 months now.

By: joppa

joppa — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:18:33 +0000

Blob deer.