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MINOT, N.D., Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Wildlife experts, after a young mountain lion was reported sighted in Minot, N.D., stress the odds of seeing a cougar in a city are slim.
Outreach biologist Greg Gullickson, who is part of the North Dakota Game and Fish Department's Minot office, said that the animal was almost certainly a house cat, the Minot Daily News reported.
"By the time a mountain lion is 3 weeks to 4 weeks old, its tracks are already definitely larger than a domestic house cat," said Gullickson. "If this was a (cougar) kitten with tracks small enough to match even a large house cat, it would be partially blind, heavily spotted and most definitely not traveling on its own."
He added that a kitten that young would be "within feet" of its mother and still nursing.
Federal Trapper Scott Evans was "100 percent" sure that the tracks were made by a house cat, said Gullickson.
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