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Across the Fence:  Mountain Lion... Honest!  |
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17476 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17476 Posts |
 Posted - Nov 02 2013 : 9:30:23 PM
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So today my MIL and SIL came up the mountain for a visit,,, my DH was driving all of us around the area where we now live... I spotted a VERY large 'cat'.. and I yelled out! "Cougar, lion,, Back Up... I just saw a cougar or lion or something"... DH hit the brakes, backed up but by then the 'cat' had run into the thicket of trees...
Now mind you, everyone gave me a rash about my sighting... that it was probably a large cat... and I need new glasses...
Well guess what,,, tonight we read that there was a Mountain Lion sighting... and yep, just 2 roads over from where we live,,, which is where I spotted the 'cat'...
Dare I tell my hubby... "Told You So!"??? oh you betcha!
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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Cozynana
True Blue Farmgirl
1123 Posts
Kem
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Posted - Nov 03 2013 : 03:56:41 AM
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| I live in NW Kansa and we have been having sightings too. Rumor has it the fish and game commission relocating cats to rural Ks from Colorado because of growing population. Just last week on Facebook a guy posted a picture of a horses back flank with the ugliest large long gash. Vet says it was a mountain lion. This happened one county over,from where I live. For the past 4 or 5 years we have had many sightings in our rural area. Spooky to me. I am going to really flip out when the bears come. |
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Daizy
True Blue Farmgirl
1009 Posts
Daizy
Talladega
Alabama
USA
1009 Posts |
Posted - Nov 03 2013 : 04:21:53 AM
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We had one killed on the highway several years ago when the cleared the land for the new hospital. BIG CAT.....long tail. Fish and wildlife denied it of course.
Daizy #1093
Poor House Farmgirl Chapter
A good day is when you find ALL your ear tags! I wonder how my cows would like my Farmgirl apron?? |
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
2914 Posts
Cindy
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Posted - Nov 03 2013 : 04:38:25 AM
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We have them in Illinois, too. The IDNR finally admitted it this year when someone took a picture of one and was able to verify it. The picture ended up in all the papers. So they had to admit, yeah, there are cougars (but they say there are no breeding pairs). I know of someone at work whose cow was attacked by a large cat--the heifer died from its injuries. I've heard the IDNR has released bears, cougars, and wolverines in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois.
Cindy
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lovecatsandsunshine
True Blue Farmgirl
449 Posts
Tara
in the mountains
SC
USA
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Posted - Nov 03 2013 : 06:18:31 AM
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These big cats are heard by my husband's cousin. And my husband's Uncle has seen them come down off the mountain to go after cattle. The cousin and Uncle live in the mountains the border the NE TN -Western NC state lines. eek!
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oldbittyhen
True Blue Farmgirl
1511 Posts
tina
quartz hill
ca
USA
1511 Posts |
Posted - Nov 03 2013 : 07:59:29 AM
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very rarey we will have a Mt Lion show up around here, and its always during drought times, they come down out of the Mts for water and food, as long as I've lived here, no one has lost any pets or livestock to one...we do have alot more bobcats than we ever used to, and again its due to the drought, and again , I've not heard of pet/livestock losses recently...
"Knowlege is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad" |
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13989 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
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Daizy
True Blue Farmgirl
1009 Posts
Daizy
Talladega
Alabama
USA
1009 Posts |
Posted - Nov 05 2013 : 07:24:03 AM
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"no breeding pairs" where is the study on that? That's too funny.
Daizy #1093
Poor House Farmgirl Chapter
A good day is when you find ALL your ear tags! I wonder how my cows would like my Farmgirl apron?? |
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nndairy
True Blue Farmgirl
3704 Posts
Heather
Wapakoneta
Ohio
USA
3704 Posts |
Posted - Nov 05 2013 : 07:42:01 AM
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Wow!!! We have some coyotes around here, but that's all I know of. They've never bothered our cows.
Heather
Farmgirl Sister #4701
http://nndairy.blogspot.com/
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jenne.f
True Blue Farmgirl
643 Posts
Jenne
Wagontown
PA
USA
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Posted - Nov 05 2013 : 08:24:13 AM
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Oh.... I definitely would tell the DH!!!
You know he would.
~blessings~
Jenne
Farmgirl #4616
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
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Annika
USA
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Posted - Nov 05 2013 : 08:59:38 AM
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We have really gangster coyotes here. Not afraid at all to saunter up the drive way. Lots of deer and small mammal types, but never a cougar or such. I'm kind of jealous Grace, I'd seriously put on the "told ya so" 
You must do the thing you think you cannot do
-Eleanor Roosevelt
She with the most chickens wins
Annika
Farmgirl & Sister #13
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17476 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17476 Posts |
Posted - Nov 05 2013 : 12:10:07 PM
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for the life of me,,, I do not understand why "Man" has to interfere with nature... (relocating/breeding etc)... we just can't leave well enough alone... Back in the Conejo Valley (tween L.A. and Santa Barbara) we had/have mountain lions, cougars, coyote etc... then up in the out lying areas of Spokane we had a lot, and I do mean a lot of coyote,badgers and I even saw a Wolf, tho they are not native to the area... we also had a 'wild dog' population problem (thank you ugly humans who turn/abandon their dogs loose out in the mountains)... and now back here in the mountains of Central Calif., we have mountain lions & coyotes....
I have 2 kitties,,, they are indoor kitties and tho we don't have a dog right now,,, if & when,,, it will be an indoor dog unless I am outside with it.
Annik, hahaha!
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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