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Location: Dubach, LA | Suze - 2014-02-13 11:27 PM ~~15 Minutes ago I was stretched out in bed with ice on my ankle and my nose in a book when I herd a Mountain Lion scream. I am not kidding. I am not under the influence of any kind! Very creepy. My dogs went nuts and Dean slept through it all.
I hope my mares are ok. They will just have to take their chances. I will not go out there for any thing.
I heard one once. My dogs got super quiet and close to the house. They were as scared as I was. I did actually beat them back to the house! |
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| Longneck - 2014-02-14 6:53 PM
RockinGR - 2014-02-14 9:17 AM
I grew up 12 miles north of Hutchinson, near a small river and creek, and our neighbor kid (high school age) ran into one running into the trees from his brother--like literally the tail hit him in the face as he ran under the branch the cat was laying on. He must've been full because he never came after the kid as he backed out of the trees (didn't want to turn his back on him). Game warden told him he had to be mistaken, but around that same time, our friends just a couple miles south of us found a 250# ewe carcass up in a tree...two seperate times. Again, game warden told us it was bob cats.
I used to work for a feed company in Pratt and had some customers in Barber County, near Medicine Lodge. They kept loosing calves and a few foals, and would have several colts come out of the pasture with huge gashes down their hind quarters. We are sure it was a big cat, trying to grab them from behind. One was shot in the county a few years ago (6ish years maybe) by a guy cutting firewood. He got in big trouble because he admited that it wasn't threatening him at the time...but there were several ranchers that cheered the guy on.
I think I would be willing to take whatever fine/citation they were to give me!
The 3 S's... Shoot, Shovel, Shut up. |
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Location: Wide open spaces, Canada. | I had a gelding get attacked by one last fall. I will post pics in the morning . I live in alberta |
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Location: Nebraska | Black Horse - 2014-02-14 7:16 PM euchee - 2014-02-14 8:22 AM I'm in the S.E. Corner of Kansas and the game wardens deny it here also but we have them. I've not seen one but several neighbors have. For several years game & parks denied they were in Nebraska too and inside a week there was one hit on the interstate between Lincoln and Omaha. Not long after that they killed one in Omaha. Now we have a season on them.
I didn't know we had a season on them now. There have been a few up by my house (caught on game camera and tracks in snow) and I know some mushroom hunters found one dead in Yutan last year. I haven't heard of anyone losing any livestock to them but we have a ton of deer around here. |
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 Hummer's Hero
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Location: Smack Dab in the Middle | Glittergirl - 2014-02-15 12:03 AM
Longneck - 2014-02-14 6:53 PM
RockinGR - 2014-02-14 9:17 AM
I grew up 12 miles north of Hutchinson, near a small river and creek, and our neighbor kid (high school age) ran into one running into the trees from his brother--like literally the tail hit him in the face as he ran under the branch the cat was laying on. He must've been full because he never came after the kid as he backed out of the trees (didn't want to turn his back on him). Game warden told him he had to be mistaken, but around that same time, our friends just a couple miles south of us found a 250# ewe carcass up in a tree...two seperate times. Again, game warden told us it was bob cats.
I used to work for a feed company in Pratt and had some customers in Barber County, near Medicine Lodge. They kept loosing calves and a few foals, and would have several colts come out of the pasture with huge gashes down their hind quarters. We are sure it was a big cat, trying to grab them from behind. One was shot in the county a few years ago (6ish years maybe) by a guy cutting firewood. He got in big trouble because he admited that it wasn't threatening him at the time...but there were several ranchers that cheered the guy on.
I think I would be willing to take whatever fine/citation they were to give me!
The 3 S's... Shoot, Shovel, Shut up.
You'd think, right? But the way he got caught was he put it in the freezer then took it to have it stuffed and mounted, and KDWP headquarters is only a county away in Pratt, so word got around fast and they started asking questions. |
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 Can You Hear Me Now?
Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | CanCan - 2014-02-14 7:44 PM
ndiehl - 2014-02-14 1:02 AM I ran into one riding once. I will never forget the growl freaks me out going past that spot to this day!
You still go be there? Voluntarily? Sober? Unarmed?
lol it's the entrance to my favourite field to ride and do some exercises in. The entrance has a strand of poplars on one side and a bush with a rock cut going to our one bluff about 20 feet in on another. The field is flat and big so I can play around and basically do whatever with them. I still think about it but I go, my mistake last time was going right at dusk (I don't do that anymore). If I took note and kept away from all the wolf and mountain lion sitings around I wouldn't be able to leave the house. |
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 Twin Sister to Queen Boobie
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | There was a close up game pic of one in eastern KY sometime last year. Game & fish say they don't exist here but there's too many stories. A couple of years ago I heard "something" that sounded so much a woman being killed that I went and grabbed the shot gun.
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