Reported mountain lion in Hancock Co. just house cat

MOUNT BLANCHARD (AP) — Wildlife officials are tamping down rumors that a mountain lion is prowling in a small northern Ohio town. They say it’s a cat, all right — but just a large house cat.
The (Findlay) Courier reports that the rumors started recently when the cat was photographed by a motion-activated trail camera strapped to a tree in Mount Blanchard. People started talking, and some of them started calling state wildlife officials. But state wildlife official Bob Flickinger told the newspaper that further study of the photos showed the animal is just a big domestic cat.

Posted by Daily Chief on October 5, 2012. Filed under State News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry