Comments on: Track of the Cat

By: CryptoInformant 2.0

CryptoInformant 2.0 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:52:53 +0000

Well, hopefully the photo will eventually circulate onto the internet.

No plaster copies, huh? Sounds like someone isn’t taking the whole “collecting evidence” schtick seriously over in Winslow.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:49:57 +0000

Weird. In a version of this posting, I had noted “no photo image is available.” I see it didn’t get saved to the blog.

Anyway, here’s what I know. While the photograph of the track was in print editions of this story in Maine, no online versions of the picture of the “paw print,” as the local newspapers called it, have shown up.

To the best of my knowledge, only one photo of a track was taken and no plaster copies were cast.

By: CryptoInformant 2.0

CryptoInformant 2.0 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:23:55 +0000

I wonder… was a cast made of this print? Were photos, at the very least taken? It would be nice to see the print for ourselves.

By: DWA

DWA — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:40:51 +0000

Well, at least Maine has a point person on mountain lions. And they seem to be going about this in the right way.

It’s fine to be skeptical…just so long as your brains don’t get squeezed out through your ears.

And for those who don’t know: “fisher cat” is a misnomer. The fisher - no “cat” - is more a big weasel than any sort of cat, and no one will mistake a fisher for a mountain lion who has any idea what either one looks like. I for one would love to know how “common” that mistake is. It sounds like a “common” toss-off by game folks who presume the public knows nothing. (One will see a fisher about as often as one will a mountain lion.)

The size difference alone would tip just about anyone off, besides which a fisher looks more like a fox than it does a cat.