It’s definitely up there in the best top 10 things I’ve ever seen in my life. But this was a time before cell phones and everybody could whip it out and take a picture. Definitely not a bear, definitely not a dog, I don’t care who you are you know a cat when you see one even if it is bigger than you. ![]() There was no mistaking the tail for a leg we all saw the same thing. This animal didn’t even move when we came in and the floodlights all turned on. It was one of those your rub your eyes 1 million times kind of moments because you do not believe what you’re seeing. Needless to say we did not get out of the car until it decided to get up and disappear off into the woods. When we first pulled in the ENORMOUS cat was literally laying down like it was the thing to do. All of us excluding my husband have grown up in New Hampshire we know what wild life looks like. I’m not talking Garfield fat I mean a beautiful majestic animal and it was black. My husband, myself, and two of our closest friends were in complete shock when we pulled into our yard and they’re on the brick patio near the open fireplace, Was an extremely large black feline. Coming from I’m the traffic circle if you’re heading towards the speedway there’s a diner on your right hand side it’s right before that on the left. This particular situation happened about 20 years ago in Lee NH. We’ve had coyotes there so I thought it was probably that that she smelled. Previously that day I saw my dog acting very skiddish in the back yard. It never seemed panicked, just moved away until out of sight. It was not a great big animal, but it definitely was a cat and definitely not a housecat. It moved away from me until it was out of sight, and I moved to the high area it had left and it appeared from a low area going up a field until it crested the hill and I no longer saw it. The body was about 3.5 to 4 feet long, and the tail was about 2.5 to 3 feet long, and looked to be about 2 inches in diameter and held just off the ground. At about 50 feet away it climbed up a banking and I was able to see the length of its body and its tail. It was narrow from behind and about 2 feet high. I left my car running and walked to the chicken pen and at about 10 feet away I saw what I thought was a coyote walking away from me and the chicken pen. It was dusk and I drove my car down to the chicken pen upon arriving home in order to close it for the night. ![]() Last Wed 9-9-2020 I saw a mountain lion in my back yard. On Septemat 12:07 am | Reply Betty Fifield, Canterbury, NH We’ll keep an eye out for it and leave the handycam on the kitchen counter, ready to go if we see it again. now that I know something’s around, I’ll take the game camera (cheap Tasco one) and set it on a tree pointed in the direction of where this animal was and hope that it is on a perimeter walk around it’s present territory, unless they are just wanderers and don’t stake out a defined area and we’ve likely missed an opportunity to document this sighting in Sandown. Unfortunately, I didn’t grab my handycam on the way to the kitchen, otherwise I could have caught a decent hi-res zoom of it as it passed along the treeline. She had 8x binoculars and got a decent look at it, but when I got there, it had started moving along the treeline, she handed me the binocs and unfortunately they weren’t adjusted for my eyes, so I looked at it for a few seconds, then tried to focus the binocs, then the adjustable eyepiece, but by the time I actually got a good look, it was walking away, up the bridle path behind the house, so I got a good look at from around 200′ with my eyes, then just a look at it as it was walking away from me up the bridle path, so I didn’t see any details clearly till it was just it’s rear end/tail by the time I got the binocs focused.įrom what I saw, I think it’s a mountain lion, had to be at least 100#, probably more, maybe 120 or 130#, but just wondering what the experience has been with true mountain lions in this part of NH. She said she saw it turn toward her as it was sitting there before I got to the kitchen and she at first thought it might have been a wolf or coyote/coy dog, but when it turned to her it had a cat’s face, not a dog’s, so she knew it had to be some form of large cat. ![]() It was definitely a large, stocky cat of some type, medium brown, about 4 to 4.5′ long with a long thick tail slightly shorter than the body. The location is about 200′ from our kitchen window at the edge of our mowed area, walking along the edge of the woods. This morning, around 7am, my wife called to me from the kitchen to identify some big cat in the back yard.
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