I get that! I also remember that this is the second time I've seen a post by you about your seeing a cougar when you were in Alaska. And I thought that was a strange thing to tell about the
first time I read it until I saw you're located in N.C., where cougars in the wild probably
are pretty rare. It's not like that everywhere.
At least every couple of years a cougar ends up wandering into Pocatello (about 25 miles north of here) and the Fish and Game Department has to dart it and haul it back out into the hills. You can look it up with a simple Google search if you don't believe me. Of course you probably don't consider a cougar on the campus at Idaho State University actually "in the wild."
I'm just messing with you Milt 1. I actually agree with you in some ways - "the overriding majority" of people in the U.S. will never see a cougar in the wild in their lifetimes. But that's because "the overriding majority" of people in the U.S. live in the big cities of the east and west coasts.
Oh, and one more thing - if you look it up, you'll find out Alaska is not all that rife with cougars either. The cougar population in Alaska is growing, but it's not as large as I would have presumed before I did a search on it.