This year in Ohio, a cougar is said to have been purchased at a flea market (!) and then released by its new owner. It was sighted in the vicinity, but to the best of my knowledge, has not been recaptured. More recently another pet cougar got loose and was recovered. Ohio, and until 2008, Ontario, stand [...]
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Ohio is noted for its lax regulations regarding private ownership of big cats. A cougar should not be in a petting zoo.
http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20100808/news01/8080322/1002/cougar-found–returned-to-danville-petting-zoo
Mansfield NewJournal
Cougar found, returned to Danville petting zoo
DANVILLE — A cougar that escaped from its pen at a petting zoo Thursday night in Danville was found and returned late Friday.
The 10-year-old cougar, named [...]
Brown County Ohio cougar was flea market purchase
Posted in Confirmed Sightings, Control, Monitoring, Ohio on May 31st, 2010
Most eastern states and Canadian provinces now ban private ownership of cougars or require the “owner” of the exotic animal to obtain a license or permit or to register the animal with state or local authorities to privately possess the animal. As of 2009, only two states (Wisconsin & West Virginia) and one eastern Canadian [...]
Possible escaped captive cougar sighted in southwestern Ohio
Posted in Confirmed Sightings, Control, Monitoring, Ohio on May 28th, 2010
Georgetown is in SW Ohio near the Kentucky border.
http://www.maysville-online.com/news/local/article_eaaa2e50-6a00-11df-bef9-001cc4c03286.html
The Ledger Independent
Mountain lion believed sighted near Georgetown
By MISTY MAYNARD
GEORGETOWN, Ohio — The Brown County Sheriff’s Office has received two reports in two days of a mountain lion sighting near Georgetown, Ohio.
Police believe the animal may have escaped from a resident on Western Run Avenue in Mount [...]
http://www.salemnews.net/page/content.detail/id/521874.html?nav=5007
salemnews.net
State game officer doesn’t believe Salem mountain lion story true
The story of a mountain lion killed behind the Saxon Club on Friday looks like an Internet hoax.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources District 3 (Columbiana County) Officer Scott Angelo said Thursday, “I have no knowledge of that. I don’t believe there’s any truth to that.”
Salem Humane [...]