Posted on 08/08/2014 7:47:16 PM PDT by SolidRedState
What else could it be?
Take a look at this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL8unjP4r6Q
1. Can you see the cougar as it stalks the driver shooting the video? Hint: It is closer at the 45 - 50 second period?
2. Could YOU shoot the cougar when it was coming that close to you? It was a very, very narrow target! And this mountain lion was not moving/jumping/attacking. Only stalking.
3. Did you see the second cougar approaching from the other side?
Haven’t seen skunks around...haven’t smelled them neither.
The masks are to fool the tigers so they don’t try to sneak up on them from behind.
The vid looked like BC and when I checked to comment, so it was.
cougar or young black bear. Both are territorial, both will come back for a carcass, both are curious. Check around your own barn and house for tracks. If you find tracks, call Fish and Game (might want to call them anyway to report a possible sighting). Stay safe.
No idea. Was looking for something creepily hair-raising for the thread and found that. It’s called a Jersey Devil, for what it’s worth. Don’t know what it’s supposed to have done. Didn’t read the legend... it is kind of creepy though, huh? :-)
wow - I saw the two, but the third one surprised me!
Three years ago I had a cat picking off my sheep. They are very stealthy, see in the dark well, and most always know of your presence long before you catch on that they are around, if you ever do. That dang cat waited for me to leave my hide on night for over 5 hours, when I went inside to drink a cup of coffee. Came back 5 minutes later to catch it dragging another ewe to the edge of the corral!
Then this winter I had a deer problem in the garden. There would be between 15-20 in there eating the cover crop and were very reluctant to leave even with headlights, horns, etc. I’d pretty much resigned myself to having to build an 8’ fence before spring when a cat discovered the easy pickings. It only took the cat killing a couple in the garden and dragging them off before the whole herd decided it wasn’t a safe place to graze anymore.
Like a couple other posters mentioned, I think it would be wise to have a shotgun loaded with 00.
And, when it gets hot, mum bobcat drinking out of the bird bath -
There are no black mountain lion’s.
We’ve taken 3 cats off the ranch over the years, I’ve shot 2 and one of the hands shot the other one. While you may have seen one cross the road the kill you described definitely doesn’t sound like a cat kill. If it’s more than they can eat in one sitting they will do everything they can to cover it up. Coyotes on the other hand dismember and run off with the goodies, I’ve seen them dismember and haul off a 200 lb calf carcass in 1 day. Depending on the time of the year I’ve seen full grown cows taken to bones in 3 days due to Coyotes and Turkey Vultures.
Comments like this amaze me, we have hundreds of millions of cell phone capable of taking picture, trail camera’s, regular camera’s and to this day not one person has ever gotten a picture of a black Mountain Lion, they do not exist!
We saw one in Connecticut three years ago. There were several reported sightings in a four or five day period in the area. They will live where there’s game and cover and we have both.
Back here in Maryland/Virginia we have had a bunch of sightings but the Fish and Game people won’t admit to it
The Allegheny mountains are like a highway for bears cats etc and they can travel from Maine to South Carolina pretty much as they wish
We had the same problem in North Dakota for years.
No PhD in Wildlife Management and the sightings were treated (almost sneeringly) as "anecdotal evidence" and ignored.
Then someone backed up to the Fish and Game Office, dropped the tailgate and rolled out their 'anecdotal evidence'.
That was the end of the official denial. Not long after that a bowhunter bagged one in the river bottoms outside Williston, and 3 more were imaged by game cameras, not three miles from town (15000 pop. then, now 45000 after 6 years).
Numerous others have been bagged in the badlands since.
I remember seeing one on our ranch in Texas near Bastrop in the 60s. Call it a puma or mountain lion, it was a large cat under a mercury vapor street light near our barn.
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