Hey Stink, want some of this??
 

140 POUNDS OF FUN!!
The DNR presumed it to be an escape or a release. At Lake West Point (near the AL/GA border).
Although about 10 years ago we did have a pair with radio transmitters pass within 60 miles of us from Florida.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...i3/Cougar1.jpg
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...i3/Cougar2.jpg
http://www.gon.com/article.php?id=1787&cid=158

And then a possible state record gator.
http://www.gon.com/article.php?id=1725
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w...cordgator1.jpg
13'7", 685lbs.
After being harpooned, shot 8 times with a .40SW, gaffed and a 4 hour battle!

We have plenty bobcats here, I've bagged 7 in my lifetime.

He was awfully light for that length. My dad got one that was 13'2" back in the eighties, and it weighed in at 1320 pounds.

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t...ATOR/gator.jpg

FERM, I've seen them dinosaurs ya'll got down there, up close, personal and don't doubt it a bit!!
At the bottom of Lake George, Blue Creek and Hitchens Creek has a couple of monsters in them!!

jeez, none of those creatures up here in N.Y., but, we do have some pretty big snapping turtles

that doesn't look like a bobcat to me, is that a Couger?

Dat be a cougar. Meow!

It's presumed to be a Western Cougar which is not protected in Georgia, considered an exotic and no regulations to disallow harvest.
Genetic testing is to be done to determine weather or not it was a Florida Panther or an Eastern Cougar, which will carry heavy fines.

yeah, thats what I was wondering about, I figured they were protected, but like you say, if it was a non native species, its fare game . Talking about bobcats, last week a freind of mine had a bobcat attempt to climb the tree that he was siting in, waiting on a deer, notice I said the bobcat attempted to, .270 WSM took care of the climbing cat, he did tell me he had to cut his hunting short that day because of something about changing his pants

yep there have been reports of em in LA and headed this way a little closer each year. Ive love to kill one but its actually illegal to killem year...since they are in northen Bama/TN....always been illegal to kill em in alabama.