L. MACUNGIE TWP., Pa. — The animal sighted Sunday in Lower Macungie Township, Lehigh County, was really a “giant feral home cat,” the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) stated Monday.
The PGC stated it was contacted by a “sister regulation enforcement company” on Sunday concerning the sighting close to 1013 Village Round. Pennsylvania State Police initially reported that the animal was a “giant feline, presumably a mountain lion.”
Upon investigation, PGC stated its workers made contact with the person who reported the animal and examined the world for tracks. By utilizing life-size cutouts of a home cat, bobcat and mountain lion, and taking pictures of vegetation close to the sighting, PGC workers members have been capable of decide that the animal sighted was a home cat.
“Based on the pictures taken utilizing the cutout compared to the unique photograph, it seems that the animal in query was a big feral home cat,” a PGC official stated.
PCG stated it has not been capable of verify a sighting of a mountain lion “for many years,” and famous that the final wild mountain lion in Pennsylvania was reported to have been killed within the 1870’s.