CT resident hunters already knew the Mountain Lion originated in upstate NY

"Cougar killed by CT car had passed through NY "

The latest bogus headline about the mountain lion which was recently killed in CT. 

"LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. — Environmental officials say a cougar killed by a car in Connecticut tramped through upstate New York last year, a rare sighting in a state where the big cats are believed to have been gone for more than a century.

Cindy Eggleston reported seeing the cat in her Lake George backyard in December. Her husband David, a former Department of Environmental Conservation colonel, and DEC officer Louis Gerrain took pictures of the tracks and gathered hairs...." MORE

What proof do they have that it "passed through" NY and didn't originate there? CT hunters have said for years that our mountain lion population came from upstate NY. Many believe they were put there to control the exploding deer and coyote populations, but that's just conjecture.

Just this week an guy who works in my office space informed me that a mid-size mountain lion, long tail all, passed right in front of his girlfriend's car a day earlier. 

We don't need any more proof DEP.