Believe it!

[trish76642]

As long as them Varmints stay over yonder, want be no problem.

Trish.....you bust me up...LOL

lol...you bust me up too Tee...Oh we could get wild as a March Hare if we wanted to, couldnt we girl?!

 

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[trish76642]

but if kitty shows up in my area....kitty will be carpet.

HAHAAAAAAAA!!!

 

[BLACKFOOT]

from personal experisene i walked up on a mountain lion on a ridge above a boy scout camp in az.close enough to hear the scouts talking. it was shredding a fawn and would not retreat until i fired a shot into the ground. i had yelled and waved my arms it flicked its tail and grouched to attack.
it was shredding the deer with its claws , i figured it was toothless . if i had known that i would have put it out of its misery.

 

[stefen]

but if kitty shows up in my area....kitty will be carpet.
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Like in litter

 

[trish76642]

however if this animal doesn't want you to see it you never will....

Thats exactly WHY people think their not around....and they are.

 

[trish76642]

Good pic Tee! I see something but i cant tell if its a cat or a squirel. lol...want say where i see it...just yet.

 

[oldgoat]

Very nice pic, Monty...Thanks for posting.
Tee, in the picture you showed, I saw a lot of terrain that looks like a ranch that I hauled saltwater from, The Lil Hoss Ranch, in Texas...I saw the cat in your pic...Have also seen them on that same ranch, found their pawprints the next day and seen some of the kills...Had a co-worker so frightened that he wouldn't come off the well platform because he heard one scream nearby...

 

[extractor]

I see him ,great picture ,thanks for sharing

 

[trish76642]

Well i woulda done got ATE cuz i still aint found that dang CAT TEE! lol.........

Dont tell me.

 

[oldgoat]

Hey Tee, some of the places that I haul water from you need to have good eyes...It is snake season down here in Texas, never know where you might find them. Most of the storage tanks have retaining walls around them, have seen six foot rattlers in side the walls curled up next to the tanks for warmth.

 

[Shortstack]

He (or she ) is peeping around that bush and would have been very difficult to spot if it's movements hadn't pulled your eyes to it when he (she) crouched down and sneaked to position.
Yep, a 30-30 Corelok would do the job.

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

About the troll. He was successful in getting a forum board deleted, and now it looks like he's trying to get another one. Don't let this happen. Just recognize who the trouble makers are (That's not difficult to do) and ignore them as much as possible. Believe me, it's easy to "get" them in an argument, but it's not worth it. It just makes YOU look bad for arguing and gets boards deleted, which is their plan.

How do you go about recognizing the trouble makers?

 

[Monty]

I don't have a clue how big that cat is, but he/she appears to be well fed and in good health. I don't recall of anyone being attacked by a cougar in OK but maybe decades ago? There was a rumor that a cougar had been seen on my hunting lease in the NE mountainous part of the state, but we never saw one. Found some turkey carcasses tht were shredded, and saw a really big bobcat a few times. We were guessing it was the bob cat they were seeing. Didn't find any poop or tracks to back up the lion theory. Monty

Oh and another thing......I never saw an eagle while growing up, but now we see them all over the state. Many winter along our manmade reserviours and downstream from the dams. Watching them swoop and grab a fish is amazing!

 

[Seamuss]

Cougars will take a deer a week to live on. As long as there are plenty of deer and other prey around for them, then people are basically safe from them. They are a solitaire animal that normally shy away from population. Unless we destroy their habitat and shrink their hunting area and their food supply, they will not be seen that often be people.

 

[Shortstack]

Sooooo, these big cats only attack humans once or twice a year. Ahhhhh, I guess that's OK........unless you or one of your kids happens to be that statistical "1".

 

[Noodle]

I've always been taught that any animal can be dangerous, even domestic cats and dogs. We live on a nice spread of ground and hunt deer every fall/winter. Bobcats, the occasional bear, the occasional cougar, raccoons, snakes, coyotes, etc. Yet we have, right in the middle of this, chickens, cats, dogs, ducks and a turkey. All unfenced and wandering throughout the yard and a small portion of the total acreage.

However, we do find, from time to time, deer killed by some type of cat. Bobcat or cougar? Not sure. Prints have been found, large prints, bear and cougar, but they are so slippery, we've not had any encounters.

Just as I'm careful in traffic, so goes it in the woods. Eyes always open. Plenty of food around for predatory animals, but when animal mamas have babies, that's a whole different story. Wild animals are wild animals.

Noodle

 

[Noodle]

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I just read Nicks' post- THERE ARE TEN MOUNTAIN LION FATALITIES OVER 100 YEARS? You are going to tell me you have almost been killed twice?

Are you going to stop driving since the odds are so bad?

According to this quick reference website, 37,248 were killed in fatal car accidents in 2007 alone.

If we assume there was 1 fatal mountain lion attack in the U.S. per year ( this is actually DOUBLE the actual average), then that means you are more than 37,000 times more likely to die in a car accident than be killed by a mountain lion.

What is difficult to understand about 37,000 vs. 1?

Those odds are as different as could be. I am sure there are many reasons to kill mountain lions that are necessary.

Blind fear and lack of understanding is not one of them. Blind fear and lack of understanding are no way to approach any aspect of the world.

http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
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Wow! Such hostility! Over a simple picture forum of a cougar and people's opinions. Mellow out?? If folks don't agree with you, so be it. Accept it. You're yelling over nothing. Take a chill, lady.

 

[NEAL]

Cool pic! We had some here in Michigan last winter that were attacking cows, I don't know if they were killed or if they just moved on. I carried my shotgun to and from the barn while working though. Better safe than sorry!

 

[Monty]

Hey, this post had nothing to do with animals eating people and you are really polluting my original post. Please stay on the subject or don't post. This is exactly the type of crap that so many people are upset about. M nty.

 

[Monty]

I'm over my PO'd now, so thanks for all the legitimate posts and interest. I have an icebag on my head as I type! M nty