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Originally posted by trekkor
How many people have cougars within sight of their front door?
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Heck -- I live 40 miles from Boston and had an (unverified) Mountain Lion spotted on the corner of my property, not even 100 yards from my house. There were a number of (unverified) sitings in my town and the town south of us. I'm pretty sure that my wife and I heard it one night. As we were sitting in bed reading, we heard a lot of the neighborhood dogs barking, and what what sounded like one angry house-cat. Only later did we learn that mountain lions don't roar -- they are actually relatives of the house cat and can only purr and meow.
I don't know about any attacks in the area, but I can tell you that most people in the area that summer did not let their children play outside around sunset.
PS: We've also got cayotes around here too, I passed a family of them once in broad day light, during afternoon rush hour as they were calmly walking along the edge of Mitre's property in Burlington as if they owned the place.