Officially,
there hasn't been a documented mountain lion sighting in this part of
Canada since the late 1930s, but many people still swear they've seen or
heard the big cats in the woods of New Brunswick.
Researcher
Bill Betty doesn't think they're all mistaken....he's with the Eastern
Puma Research Network and he tells Tide News there's an even stranger
possibility than a new and unknown species...wild house cats, which have
been documented to get as big as 56 inches after living outside for
generations.
He says
the big black cats people have reported seeing could be the Asiatic
Leopard which are a problem in Europe but haven't been proven to exist
yet here, but we'll just have to wait until one is captured to know for
sure.