Cougar tries to get in house -- pictures

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I hunted on a 13,000 acre ranch near "pumpville", which is a hole in the wall about 13 miles west of Langtry, Texas. There were big fires in the Sierra del Carmens across the river one year and black bear and cougar were spotted around the area. There was a lion that was loose in Langtry during the day that year and the Wardens shot it with a dart and hauled it off to greener pastures. Folks around there were kinda freaked about all the critter invasion. I guess they were "wet back cats?":D
 
Art Eatcat sayeth:

But he would indeed make for some tasty meals.

Art, careful. Remember how the SARS outbreak started?

Bet the cat was freezing his little buns off. It looks cold outside!
 
I don't think he tried to get into the house - from the photographs he was just at the house. The house is probably in his domain and he has probably been there a couple a times when you were not looking. He probably knows more about you than you would be comfortable with - he probably knows your smell better than what you look like. He can see by the light of the stars and does not need your light to watch you. You are not his natural prey you are no competition for him with the ladies - it's unlikely that he'll tangle with you for a meal or sexual dominance. Let him be.

Removing him from the domain will not change the domain - he''l be probably be replaced by a relative. Changing the domain such that he does not want to live there anymore will probably make it less attractive to you as well...

If you wanna hunt him don't shoot him off a porch - be a sport !
 
People don't realize how much some lions travel. TP&WD put a radio collar on a lion down in Black Gap by theRio Grande, and two nights later the lion was killed in a goat pen some 80 miles north.

A friend of mine uses his 172 for radio-tracking of various radio-equipped critters. Falcons, eagles, lions...One lion had a regular pattern, north to south and back, from north of Marathon, Texas, to the southern part of Mexico's Del Carmen mountains--a distance of over 200 miles.

A lion on the hunt is said by the wildlife biologists to work as much as a five-mile diameter circle in a night...

Art
 
I just don't get it!

Why am I one of only a couple who would like an explaination of 44Brent's post?

I don't want to crucify 44Brent, but I do want an assurance that the information I come to "TheHighRoad" for won't lead to blowing my shoulder off. Or worse, my injuring someone else.

I truly am thankful for 44Brent posting the pictures because I would never have seen them otherwise. But, perhaps, we can train ourselves to be a little more disciplined. In my line of work we depend on others with our lives...this may not be the case in this forum, but geeze it would be nice if we could!

Please tell me if I'm over the line. I need some kind of assurance my anality is warranted:evil:
 
Brent didn't claim to take the pictures. Not many people who don't live with 3 cameras hung around their neck even know about embedded data. It is about the first thing I look for, because I do live with cameras hung all over, and I am always curious about cameras, settings, and the other factors.
If Brent was claiming the shots as his own, I would have PMed him and told him to tighten up. I can't see any need for Brent to be embarrassed, and now, everyone should be able to look for image data. I am not much of a photographer, but too old to hunt like I once did, I try to photograph like I used to hunt, get close, and make one shot. If I killed a deer tomorrow, I would have to sit there and eat it, I sure can't drag one anymore!:)
http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/
 
We had a lion or two frequent our deer lease out in Llano back in the 90's. Someone would see it every year. Once, dad saw it during bow season. He was sitting on his tripod, and out about 75 yds through the tall grass he sees this monster cat tail stickin up and walking along. He got a good look at it once it cleared the grass. A full grown lion. This made me think twice about maybe carrying a pistol during bow season (but since it's illegal, well....).

Another hunter spotted it while he was coming down the granite mountain on our lease. The lion ran down in front of him about 30 yds out. He said it was a big male (seeing as how he got a good look at it from behind I believe him).

A few times we found deer kills that had been covered up with brush.

I spotted him a LONG ways out walking through the brush once.

No one really wanted to shoot it. It was more afraid of us than we were of him so we left him alone. People that have never been around them really get worked up over them. Trust me, if you live where they roam, chances are they have spotted you while hunting and you never knew it.

That said, if one was brave enough to come around on my porch, well, I may have to take some severe action. But that's the exception not the rule.

Now, feral cats, that's another story all together........
 
Sorry folks - I was the recipient of a prank e-mail

My friend who sent me the pictures was actually pulling my leg. He didn't take the pictures, he was just trying to entertain my girlfriend who is planning to visit Wyoming this summer.

I don't know the original source of the pictures. Your guess is as good as mine.
 
It doesn't matter, Brent.
Thing is, check images for embedded data, if it has been removed, ask, why?
You never tried to B.S anyone, I just hope I made it harder for anyone to B.S. you!:D
When I first got into digital photography, the only edit software I could afford stripped out all the EXIF data. I got questioned a lot on the authenticity of my images. I've managed to catch a few decent shots, with little half adoublescribble cameras, because I still stalk like I'm hungry!
If you ever get near N.E. Florida, bring a camera, there are unlimited shots still out there!:D
The photos are great, just wish we knew where, we already know when!
http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/
 
Swampsniper,

I clicked on the URL you provided on your post above, only to find bees, flowers, frogs, birds and all kinds of other living things! Worse, the atmosphere portrayed in some of these photographs looked of peace and serenity.

Don't you know if it breathes or moves, it should be shot? Weirdo!

:D
 
Still got the guns and bows, too old tote anything out of the woods these days. I just get on my electric mountain bike, go as far as it will take me, and find a place to hide. If I can leave memories for you young guys, I'll be happy, the bulldozers are winning around here. There are plenty of deer and hogs where I do most camera work, but too many people always moving around.
I can still snag something edible if need be!:D
 
A full mount or a throw rug, would look good in my house.
Is it legal to kill a cougar in wyoming?
 
mountain lion

I'm a little simatheic, but don't get me wrong the shots I took at the cat would have come from my 30 '06, not my camera. The only thing I have to say is that if someone is going to live around the national parks that are in place to preserve the countries wildlife, well then they better expect to see it. The mountin lion was living there alomg time before there were any people there. But, in the end I think I would have shot him and put his head up on my pourch to let all the others know what happens if they get too close.
 
mcraven, would you shoot through the door? 'Cause if you first opened the door, you wouldn't get a shot. Ol' cougar, he'll make that first hundred yards in about four seconds.

:), Art
 
I once heard an expert say that "for every time you see a cougar, he's seen you twenty!" They generally fade out of sight before we see them. One that acts like that needs a lesson- mebbe the "shotgun shell full of unpopped popcorn" type.
 
"For every time you see a cougar, he's seen you twenty!"
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At least!
I have a spot a couple of hundred yards out the back door, where on a hot day the smell of cat pee will water your eyes, with claw marks 7 feet up a cypress tree, lived here 15 years, never seen the big boy yet.
I wish him well.
First time he marks a spot in one of the new gated communities, he is a goner, and I will mourn him.
Tsiya is me, BTW, it is Tslagi for "Otter", the original sniper of the swamp.
http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/
 
A couple years ago here were I live in oregon a cougar walk into a ladys house and Grabed her cat and ran back outside niether of them were seen again :(
 
So, I loaded my little Rossi M511 Sportsman .22 kit gun up with CB shorts which shoot pretty well even at 25 yards from that gun and won't go far and should still kill a dog eventually, even if gut shot. Be nice to make him suffer, actually.

MCgunner

That is just wrong, unethical, and you should be ashamed. It's just a damn animal, and even if you don't like them, causing unnecessary pain to an animal SHOULD BE beneath you.
 
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