On a side note, word on the street down here is that the Missouri DNR have secretly and illegally released cougars in the NE part of the state, where they obviously migrated to ours. Have heard rumors of the same about wolves, but they have not turned up as of yet.
Too bad...if the headline writer had used “cougar” instead of “mountain lion”..you’d have 200 replies and 50 pics on this thread..
The lion shot in Des Moines is now being examined by the DNR. One of the things we look at when we get an animal like this is the stomach contents to see what kind of diet it had just prior to being killed, Baskins said. I know in the past, its been mostly rabbits, mice and squirrels.
If it had been the lion that was visiting my ranch here in New Mexico a couple weeks ago they would have found some of my sheep in its belly.
Big Kitty ping!
Well good for them. They got to shoot something that day and it wasn’t a dog.
Probably someones pet they raised from a cub that got loose
The wildlife experts in Kansas and Missouri said the same thing for years including the escaped pet nonsense (the dog ate my homework). Finally, they had to admit that these critters are living among us, and they are reproducing. My neighbor lost two pigs a few years back to an adult and a cub judging from the size of the paw prints.
“What do you need those rifles for? The deer are all gone.”
Mountain lion shot and killed
Palo Alto visit fatal to cougar / Cop shoots cat near schools and residences Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Palo-Alto-visit-fatal-to-cougar-Cop-shoots-cat-2776914.php#ixzz28coyEDXe
They probably mistook it for a dog.
That is obviously not a mountain lion, that is a great plains lion
Jobs must be getting scarce in the woods.
How about plenty of cats and dogs for easy pickings
It was all for the children, you know.
Basically, the DNR denies the existence of such predators because an admission of such would open a bureaucratic can of worms they’d rather not deal with.
There have been lots of reports about coyote invasions, and there was a moose seen in NE Iowa a few years ago. It's good that large wildlife is returning to Iowa. I'll only get nervous when there are reports of bears and wolves.
Why kill it????
In 2006 the Sioux City Police shot a cougar that had denned up in a city park. The I-DNR was all agog, then, about how there were no restrictions on killing mountain lion in Iowa as the species was considered a non indigenous predator, at the same level as a coyote. Any caliber weapon, permission from the landowner to shoot on private property.
Family members who farm in the Loess Hills have spotted the big cats a number of times.
I live about halfway between there and Des Moines. And there is no reason they wouldn’t be around here either. Cedar Creek is just east of town, and we’re only a few miles from the Raccoon River as well. Fine corridors for them.
Two winters back we lost one of our best pups. She was a beaut. I let her out the back door and within a minute she was just GONE without a trace. I blamed in on either a coyote or an owl, but it could have just as easily been a mountain lion.
Mountain lions do actually kill jumans.
A lady jogging on trails south of Auburn, Calif got taken & mauled/killed about 12 years ago. She also had made the mistake of jogging with HEADPHONES on.