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Cougar Killed In Troup County
November 18th, 2008 NewsEngine Posted in Wild Animal News |

FORT VALLEY, Ga. - Hunters around West Point Lake might be led to believe that Georgia has a new predator roaming the woods - the cougar. A Sunday kill of a male cougar on U.S. Army Corps of Engineer land at West Point Lake, south of Hwy. 109 seemed to verify that thought. However, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division, this simply is a one-time experience.

“Though cougar and panther sightings persist in Georgia, there are no known native populations of these animals roaming the woods,” advises Wildlife Resources Division Region Supervisor Kevin Kramer. “There is no reason to believe there are any more cougars out there. This likely is a unique experience and while exciting, is not something for which we should be concerned.”

The cougar, taken near the Abbottsford community west of LaGrange, was a male, 88 inches in length measured from the nose to the tip of the tail and weighed approximately 140 pounds. The hunter who took the animal was legally hunting deer from his tree stand at the time the cougar approached.

Initial external examination by Wildlife Resources Division biologists found no tattoos, tags or collars, and the cougar had not been declawed.

Further examination by The Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study in Athens Monday afternoon confirmed the cougar to be healthy and well fed. Researchers determined the cougar had a very low parasite level and that the pads on all four feet were scuffed. According to SCWDS staff, these findings are consistent with a captive reared cougar, not a wild specimen.

Due to the fact that there are no known native populations of cougars in Georgia, no permitted cougars in this area and that the closest Alabama facilities permitted to house cougars (in Elmore and Macon Counties) have accounted for all permitted cougars, the animal taken Sunday likely escaped or was released from a non-permitted individual.

There currently are no leads as to who may have most recently held the animal, but the Division will continue to look into all possibilities.

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Registered: Dec 2006
Location: Brantley, Co. Ga.
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That goes to show you how much our Gov. knows| I've not seen one but have talked to several people who have. Some young boys were out hunting and shot a deer and walked home to get lawn mower and trailer to haul it back.They said when they got back to the deer a cougar was draging it into the woods. This was on the big power lines in south Ga. It was a 1/2 mile from my house. I can only take what they told me as truth for they had nothing to gain to lie. Lester Holton.

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Registered: Oct 2008
Location: Ohio
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Did the hunter that shot this cougar get fined.Since there is no open season on them there or is there.

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Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Chambersburg, PA
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Why would he be fined for killing a feral cat?

I looked through the Georgia DNR site and can't find anything stating they are responsable for establishing any seasons on any feral animals. I can't think of any states where eradication of feral species isn't the first action. Usually they are considered invasive species. There's a reason some animals require a permit to own and raise...

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Registered: Aug 2006
Location: North GA
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there was one killed in bartow in north ga.

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Location: North GA
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Originally posted by aaron moorehead
there was one killed in bartow in north ga.

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