lookindown
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My dad shot a deer one day right at dark. We picked up the blood trail the next morning. We tracked it a long ways and found a huge spot of blood in the sand but no deer. The blood trail stopped there and we couldn't find any more sign. We brought in dogs and one of them found the deer nearby, covered with pine straw. We then realized a panther did it. We had seen a panther in the area twice before this. There were four holes as big as your finger in the side of the deer where he picked it up. He had eaten a small area around the gunshot wound. Its possible a cougar is doing the same with your hogs.sandcreek4 said:We have found deer carcasses in the forks of trees, so I know that a cougar did that. But are cougars scavengers? Will they take a dead animal and drag it off, or do they prefer only fresh kill--in other words something they've killed themselves?bigcypresshunter said:Now that I think about it, I have seen broken bones along with hair in panther/cougar scat but I really dont know if they would eat it all in one day seems too much... Plus they bury the carcass in leaves and twigs to come back later. Now they are known to drag the carcass away. Maybe thats it. Could they have dragged it away and hid it? Yes you rarely see them but maybe you could catch one on cam.