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http://s14.postimg.org/fd0mm1vm9/20150316_163648.jpg This one looks to show the 3 lobes pretty well, or atleast as well as one could expect given the crap it was made in. The deeper track was made in fresh mud(And didn't show the lobes worth anything) and this one was made on ground just hard enough I couldn't leave a mark in it if I hopped around on one leg(I tried), but just soft enough I could make marks in it if I pushed my fingers into it hard enough. Deeper track is throwing people off because of the shadows cast on it and just the overall lighting(Phone camera is aweful with this crap). It is indeed a cougar, I knew that as soon as I saw it, I just wanted to hear other people say it and see what people would say in general. Funny how there "Aint no cougars round here"...Just gives me something else to do in the woods, keep a eye out for a photo op on this bad boy

The lack of discernment on reading the encounter database is a very hard thing to overcome, especially if the reader hasn't identified the deficiencies to begin with. I am convinced some have the ability, and some simply do not. Still, it can be learned. As a young law clerk i would summarize depositions for a very skiled trial lawyer. He would read them and often rewrite the summary. I was always amazed at what he could tease out of something i saw as very flat testimony, but i learned. This is a lot like that. Most read those and only take away the obvious, which is more easily waved away. The ability to really understand takes diligence and a bit of art as well. When you read that an E. European likens the smell to the moldy interior of a travel caravan, for instance, you have to know why that matters. That and a thousand other details that are all there for those with eyes. This is not so handily dismissed, i don't care much how the world has defeated your own personal expectations and timetable for confirmation. There is a greater perspective demanded.

I think that Yuchi1 overlooks an important reality concerning public opinion about the sanctity of BF life. Do we need to be reminded at all that John Q. Public doesn't give a furry rat's posterior about BF? Is that suddenly and remarkably going to change because Norseman or anyone else plugs one? If there was that potential for outrage out there, we'd be seeing a magnitude larger interest in just the idea of the animal roaming wild. In this BFF bubble, some might have lost sight of the fact that this issue doesn't matter to the vast, vast majority who Yuchi1 is predicting will mutate into a howling mob clamoring for vengence. You've got to give a rip before that happens. (Nearly) nobody does.

Call me wild and crazy but I'll be watching for the news story when they lead you downtown in cuffs (and bulletproof vest) while an angry crowd screams murderer and spits in your face. Your home will be besieged with protesters, the media and every form of nutjob imaginable to haunt your family and friends. If the DNA results come back as lower primate you will likely only be charged with felony animal cruelty, but probably lose your home, guns, job and the right to vote. Should the results come back as a level of homo sapien classification, the charges will only escalate and the pain level even more intense, for you and yours. After the criminal case is concluded, the raft of civil actions will commence, effectively wiping out any remaining assets you have worked years to accrue. If the kill occurs on federal lands, amp up the ante exponentially. Then, a few years later while you're standing on top of the bridge railing, looking into the murky water below, a sparrow alights beside you and without a sound you hear the words, I told you so....