Sorry - it was just last week that I saw the bobcat.

Yes there are definitely wild cats, Puma, Mt. lions, what ever you want to call them in this region. The DNR seems not to want to admit it for some reason. 3 years ago the St Paul police had to shoot one right in town. This spring we had video of one working its way west toward Stillwater for the metro area. I personal have seen their tracks in the woods where i deer hunt. My brother found a wildcat deer kill in the same area. There is no mistaking a wildcat kill for a wolf kill. Wolves rip the animal apart and eat all of it at one setting. The entire area around a wolf kill is ripped up, skin turned inside out and all the bones are cracked apart so they can eat the marrow. This Hugh buck was dead and a large chunk eaten out of his shoulder and cat tracks all around. trust me not lynx and not bobcat. The area was not ripped up and I back tracked and found where the cat had started to stalk the deer. The cat tracked the deer and after he/she got on the deer tracks he/she walked directly in the deer tracks as if to camouflage his own tracks. As a side note the wild cats are welcome to the deer as are the wolves, first come first serve I say. I'd be thrilled to see a wild cat in the wild.

I've seen cougars in Lester Park.

Seems to me there was a DNT story about a cougar around the lower Kenwood area a few years back?

Humans seem to have a really hard time believing that animals, especially big ones, continue to exist within the confines of our urban dreams. Yep, they are there, and they are big (we've found six-inch wide cougar prints in rural Lakeside (WI) township mud), and we are lucky to live in the same worlds they do. (But I still don't want to get sprayed or eaten by them!) 

Thanks for posting, Rij. I think we could use a new tag topic--this one doesn't belong in "Weird Stuff," but in "Real Stuff," or "Reality Check" or "wild Sightings" or some such--whatya think, Paul?

Yes!  Mountain lions in city parks, cougars in local bars and Trailer Park Boys on Perfect Duluth Day!

Probably Just Steve French, nbd.

About four years ago I was fueling equipment for the contractor building the security road around the airport runways.

 While filling a particularly big tank I was scanning the woods daydreaming and such when I spy a HUGE cat slinking through the underbrush. By huge I mean 150-200 lb. range, dark in color (almost black with tints of gray. Quite the shock I must say for even this semi-outdoorsy wildlife acclimated doofus.

Told a few peeps about this sighting and a DNR type and I got the same response that you will see an occasional mature adult cat expanding it's territory and just passing through.

Then two years ago my daughter and I see a tiny replica of the big cat (huge tail base and hind quarters) crossing upper Piedmont Av. just below Haines Rd. I'm thinking a few call this area home.

I gotta go with another animal based episode: "Where in the F*** is Oscar Goldman?"...but I guess we're getting a little off subject.

I was gonna let it go but I agree with tamara.  I did, however, see a Monster Quest episode about black panther like large cats being sighted in North America.  That's a reputable program.

Well Tamara thanks for setting me straight. I don't make shit up, but apparently can't tell the difference between dogs, house cats and wildlife. Know it alls crack me fucking up.

I saw a couple of cougars @ the Burrito Union last night.

Wow! That's so cool!!! Do you know where the pics were taken? The article just says the bobcat was "on the north shore" - that could be here to Canada.

That shot of the bobcat staring right at the camera is incredible!

Around 3 a.m. last night I heard a series of screams that went on for about 2 minutes. They lasted around 2 seconds each and continued every 5-10 seconds. 

They weren't human but sounded similar to a human howling and we're definitely not a house cat. They had a lot of more volume and depth.

They were coming from the area of Seven Bridges Road near the hockey rinks.

Sometime in July 2011 while  biking near Hawk Ridge I saw a very large cat cross the road ahead of me. Close enough to tell it was a large cat, but not close enough to see colorings or identify it, but definitely a cat and much larger than the average domesticated cat ... just sayin'.