Cougar tries to get in house -- pictures

[44Brent]

These are pictures of a cougar that a friend of mine took. He lives right outside of Yellowstone, and the cougar apparently wanted to get inside of his house.

Walking into the back porch through a fenced area - 1.

Walking into the back porch through a fenced area - 2.

On the back porch and showing its fangs.

Peering into the house through the glass door.

 

[Spec ops Grunt]

Creepy.

I wouldve shot him.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

I'd have let him in the house -- and mounted him over the mantle.

 

[fletchbutt152]

Wow!

I wanna live somewhere that is that untamed!

 

[Vern Humphrey]

I wanna live somewhere that is that untamed!

It's not all that uncommon to have a bear break into or try to break into a house here in the Ozarks. I had a blackie knock over a bee hive not 30 feet from my house -- and he came back in broad daylight when I reassembled it!

 

['Card]

I like cougars and everything, but that would have been one extremely dead cat before I let him leave my property. I just wouldn't be comfortable knowing a predator like that was comfortable coming right up to my house. Next time he does it I might not know he was there until something unfortunate had happened.

 

[Clark]

I am a mountain biker, and we want those cats dead.

A big cat that is not afraid must be hunted down.

 

[Art Eatman]

I see cougar tracks around my place pretty regularly. Never had one on the porch--that I know of.

Vern, snce Florida outlawed bear hunting, the numbers have become rather large.

A buddy of mine hunts just east of Tallahassee a few miles. It's a pain to keep bears away from bee hives or deer feeders. So, guys put multi-wire electric fences around them. The deer can jump over.

My buddy watched, one day, as a bear went up a tree and out a limb and dropped down inside the enclosure, bypassing the electric fence. (Smart bear!) The bear knocked the feeder down and munched away happily.

And then it's time to leave, right? He said the bear just charged full bore at the fence, and roared when the shock hit--but kept on going.

Art

 

[Geno]

We had a cougar sighting in central Michigan area--2001 (ish)

I think it was in 2001 or 2002 that the local city (village) police , as well as several citizens spotted a cougar S.W. of Mt. Pleasant just before the November deer season. I was more than a little unnerved walking to the blind in the dark. At that time, I had to hunt deer with my Encore pistol in .270 Win. Accurate yes, but, 1 shot! Yeah!

Now, the law in Michigan at least I was told, one could not load up their deer rifle before hunting time (sun up). Wanna bet the hunters within a 10 mile radius had the deer rifles "unloaded" as they walked to their blinds in the darks?

Yeah, right! I knew several people who packed their shotgun with buckshot to get to their blind and had their deer rifle on shoulder via a sling. Others packed (in-hand) .44 Mags and their rifle slinged. People we VERY intense during that episode. At first, people though, no, couldn't be a cougar, then they had proof--PHOTOS from a camera near a hunter's blind, and tracks to boot.

I remember walking to the blind, I was scared doo doo-less! Sore as I was, the next day I left my Encore home and packed my Weatherby Mark V in .270 Win.

I can still feel the chills just thinking about that one!

Doc2005

 

[Cosmoline]

Here kitty kitty That's a cat who knows there's some good kibble in the house. Not even afraid of the flash going off. Bad bad bad. I'll bet somebody has been leaving food out, or perhaps small juicy pets.

 

[Highland Ranger]

Looks like a small one no?

You know what we call that cougar at my house . . . . .


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a dead cougar!

 

[armoredman]

Do you have a female cat in heat?

 

[Thylacine]

Too close for my comfort.

 

[HighVelocity]

A good blast with an airhorn would fix his wagon.

 

[BIGR]

As far as I know I have never had a big cat on my porch, but 3 or 4 years ago one Sunday morning a 450 pound black bear walked up on my front porch. I heard a big sound on the porch and ran to the window and looked out. Ol big blacky had just walked off the porch and was walking up the bank. I told the wifey to come and look at the bear. She said you are telling a lie there ain't no bear out there. She looked out the window and could not believe her eyes. After further investigation I noticed that the bear had smacked the gas grill around on the porch. A few days later my brother in law walks out his basement door and notices something black about three feet to his left. There sat ol blacky against a bank eating out of a barrel that had corn in it. My brother in law retreated backwards through his basement door. That is one time that he was glad that he didn't lock the door behind him. Two weeks later bear hunters jumped ol blacky out of a thicket that was across from my driveway. They chased it about a mile from the house and killed it. He weighed in at 450 lbs.

 

[The-Fly]

Ahh nothing my AK couldnt of fixed in a jiffy

 

[RCL]

I've seen these pictures before......

http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=138407&highlight=mountain+lion

 

[Lupinus]

dude my cats freak out when the neighbors dog breaks out of its back yard....they would have had a heart attack if their cousin showed up!

But seriously, that woulda been one dead kitty. I had a black bear eating my garbage once that didn't bother me much, he didn't try peeking into the house and it wasn't that uncommon for bears to eat garbage so he was left alone...still I watched him till he left with the biggist gun I had. On another note I liked it better when he ate my garbage, racoons and stuff tore it all over the yard the bear was neat (watched him from start to finish) walked to the car stood up popped lid off with his paw reached in pulled bag out dropped it on ground made one neat cut in the bag ate his fill and left didn't ever knock the can over, went out next morning picked the bag up in one piece a stray paper the wind had moved out and dropped it back in the can....the professionalism of yogi was amazing

 

[Cosmoline]

So are they Yellowstone pics or upstate NY??

 

[pax]

Hope your friend doesn't have small children.

pax

 

[roo_ster]

I hope all the folks that read and went, "All these folks saying they'd shoot the cougar just wanna kill somehting," re-read pax's post.

A cougar that bold & unafraid of humans & flash photgraphy is a dead child waiting to happen...and its a sure bet there are the remains of several pets left behind in its scat.

 

[EmGeeGeorge]

Looks kinda fat to me; Maybe a neighbor keeping one for a "pet" and it got out?... I'd get it a pink collar and a tag that says "FluffY".

 

[Gordon]

the only issue I'd have is wether to shoot thru the glass or not!

 

[Cosmoline]

Looks kinda fat to me; Maybe a neighbor keeping one for a "pet" and it got out?... I'd get it a pink collar and a tag that says "FluffY".

Judging from its belly, my bet is if you examine its scat you will FIND a pink collar and tag that says "Fluffy"

 

[Lupinus]

so what is the appropriate caliber for cat burglars trying to get into your house?