Cougar captured in southern Ontario

[Blackleaf]

My wife bought herself a classic car last fall.
1967 Mercury Cougar. It had to be a 67 simply because it's older than I am. Funny gal.

Guess who gets to do the mechanical and pay for body work?

That's a "classic car" in North America.

To Europeans it just looks like a clapped out shoebox.

 

[lone wolf]

Yeah ... about the size of a European apartment ... or it that flat?

My wife bought herself a classic car last fall.
1967 Mercury Cougar. It had to be a 67 simply because it's older than I am. Funny gal.

Guess who gets to do the mechanical and pay for body work?

Loved the syncro signals - when they worked. Bumps could get very expensive

 

[petros]

Yeah ... about the size of a European apartment ... or it that flat?



Loved the syncro signals - when they worked. Bumps could get very expensive

I put in modern digital. The originals I kept and repaired. Merc used a cool little gizmo but piss poor plastic. There is a tiny little camshaft to do the sequencials. Motors were crap, lobes wore off the cams and the brass contacts dirtied up quick.

That's a "classic car" in North America.

To Europeans it just looks like a clapped out shoebox.

The Euros sure love shoes and V8s.

 

[spaminator]

Ontario cougar was a pet, officials believe
By Pete Fisher ,Northumberland Today
First posted: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 12:49 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 12:58 PM EDT
GRAFTON, Ont. — The first cougar ever live-trapped in Ontario was someone's pet, say ministry officials. Now its handlers need to figure out what to do with it.
“Charlie” — as the cougar has come to be known by his handlers at Riverview Park and Zoo in Peterborough, Ont., where it's being held for testing — was captured late last Friday after neighbours repeatedly spotted the beast wandering in their Grafton, Ont.
Cougars are considered an endangered species in the province. The last record of a wild cougar shot and killed in Ontario was in 1884.
"Based on our opinion this cougar very likely came from captivity,” Karen Bellamy, Ministry of Natural Resources manager of the Peterborough area, said Tuesday.
“The way it behaved, from all I’ve heard, all of it seems very consistent with a cougar raised in captivity."
Provincial police had been keeping an eye on the cougar with rifles last week, but it slipped away before ministry officials could get a trapping expert to the area, about 130 kms east of Toronto.
They also considered a tranquilizer gun, but in the end managed to lure it into a cage with raw meat.
It will continue to stay at the Riverview zoo for further testing and a quarantine period.
Then officials will need to decide what to do with it.
It won't be released into the wild, Bellamy said. So finding a home for it is the only other option.
Manager and curator of the zoo, Jim Moloney, said a cougar that used to live at the zoo died last winter.
"If it comes down to a pinch, we’ll make room for it, but it wouldn’t be our first choice."
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