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‘Mountain lion’ noticed in Lower Macungie decided to be a feral home cat

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A big feline noticed in Lower Macungie on Sunday that police believed could have been a mountain lion was truly a feral home cat, in line with officers.

Tom Keller, furbearer biologist for the Pennsylvania Game Commission, stated fee officers went Monday morning to the 1000 block of Village Road in Lower Macungie to find out if a mountain lion had been noticed there.

State police reported a resident had seen the massive cat within the space Sunday morning.

Game fee workers have life-size cutouts of a home cat, bobcat and a mountain lion that they’ll place within the space of the unique image to find out what the animal was. They additionally examined scat and tracks within the space.

“Based on the photos taken using the cutout in comparison to the original photo, it appears that the animal in question was a large feral house cat,” he stated.

Keller stated what occurs in these conditions is that individuals will take footage of an animal by zooming in, which might usually throw off the sense of scale and make the cat appear larger than it truly is.

“We get hundreds of these every year,” Heller stated.

It has been a really very long time since a wild mountain lion was discovered within the state. The final recognized jap mountain lion was killed in Berks County in 1874. The sport fee has not been capable of verify a mountain lion sighting in many years.

In this occasion, as a result of the general public was notified, the sport fee acted rapidly to find out what occurred.

“For those specifically, we need to get out there and clear them up as soon as we can,” Heller stated.

He inspired anybody who thinks they might have seen a giant cat to contact the sport fee first to allow them to decide what the animal was.

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