Ya' never know what's up there.

[chorizo]

For those who doubt the comment about packs of dogs.... A pack just attacked a mother and child, killing the child
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/l...dogs/277-40db819f-92d4-4bcb-8f67-e26e20c28e7f

 

[Rancocas]

A well written story. Good.
About 10 -12 years ago I saw a cougar here in the mountains of Tennessee. At that time the DNA denied they existed here. Now, they say they are "protected".
I have had several close encounters with black bears.
But, it is the two-legged predators that I am most leery of. I have had several encounters with that kind, also. For that reason, when I go among the mountains I carry a Colt, 1911 .45.

 

[stank]

I’ve lived in NW Pa. All my life and back in the 80’s there was a mountain lion living in my area. I don’t know where it came from or where it went but it was here for a couple years. I saw it myself once and saw tracks for probably 2 years. Just like the bald eagles that were in the area the game commission knew they were here and it was a closely guarded secret back then.
I know the track of that cat was a BIG track. It could not be confused with a dog track. Bigger than my Great Purines or the neighbors St. Bernard.

 

[chorizo]

There have been single males roaming in and out of the east coast..some to New York for years.

While it is doubtful that there are stable and reproducing populations, individual solitary males on the roam are there.

I may have seen a lynx once, but no way to prove it and having never seen one before, I couldn't be sure. Feet were funny looking for a big bobcat.

Also pretty sure I saw a wolverine..as a matter of fact almost positive.

 

[Jim K]

My brother in law saw one in Wycoff run, Cameron co. I do not doubt he saw it. There have been other credible people that have seen them in PA.

The only thing is, there are half a billion trail cams in Pa. SOMEBODY has to get a picture once in awhile.

A friend sent me a trail cam photo that was going around. It was a cougar stalking a deer. It was supposedly taken in the valley where I live in PA.

It was stalking a mule deer. I KNOW there aren’t any of them in PA. Lol

 

[Johnny Tremain]

First time the ole man took me hunting deer, I was 12. Carrying a A3O3, the first thing I heard was a noise from a Mt lion in a tree Ive never heard of then nor now. Blew him clean out of the tree.
Never did see a deer.

 

[chorizo]

That is one of the things that will keep you up at night...a lion yowling near by ..the other is a pack of wolves erupting in howls all around you.

Both make you go from zero to 100 mph in 1.5 seconds.

 

[stank]

There have been single males roaming in and out of the east coast..some to New York for years.

While it is doubtful that there are stable and reproducing populations, individual solitary males on the roam are there.

I may have seen a lynx once, but no way to prove it and having never seen one before, I couldn't be sure. Feet were funny looking for a big bobcat.

Also pretty sure I saw a wolverine..as a matter of fact almost positive.

Game commission told us there were cats living it northern New York and they migrate down into Pa. Every now and again Looking for food. That came from a full fledged uniformed officer. Not from one of the volunteer deputies. I know there are supposed to be none in the east but there are. Could be escaped pets but I don’t know anyone that has one as a pet.

 

[Pukka Bundook]

Parklands of Alberta here, so cougars , grizzly bears, the odd wolf and woverine around. black bears.
Edible critters too. Yes you Can eat cougars if you feel inclined!
Never seen a lynx track here though, but plenty of cyutes.
Maybe the same grizzly killed two fishermen in about three years here. Sitting quiet on the bank must have been tempting.

 

[chorizo]

Tasted lion one time....kind of like rabbit. Didn't make a habit out of it, especially when I had thousands of lamb chops at my disposal.

Old Spanish saying: "Gato por liebre" (cat for rabbit) Means when somebody is trying to pull the old switcheroo deception on you.

 

[SOLANCO]

A well written story. Good.
About 10 -12 years ago I saw a cougar here in the mountains of Tennessee. At that time the DNA denied they existed here. Now, they say they are "protected".
I have had several close encounters with black bears.
But, it is the two-legged predators that I am most leery of. I have had several encounters with that kind, also. For that reason, when I go among the mountains I carry a Colt, 1911 .45.

If I hear two legged predators when I am alone in the bush I will evade them if at all possible. Often simply standing still and hiding the glare of your face is all that is needed. I do like to have a side arm. .45ACP Combat Commander or .357 snub nose loaded with .38+P rounds. Especially true if my long arm is a single shot muzzle loader.

 

[SOLANCO]

Tasted lion one time....kind of like rabbit. Didn't make a habit out of it, especially when I had thousands of lamb chops at my disposal.

Old Spanish saying: "Gato por libre" (cat for rabbit) Means when somebody is trying to pull the old switcheroo deception on you.

LOL! Reminded me of an incident decades back when I was in the army. A local Mexican restaurant was famous for cabron. A helth inspection uncovered a freezer full of cat carcasses.

 

[chorizo]

LOL Cabra is goat..cabron is something else altogether in daily usage. Most mexicans will use chivo or chiva. Most spaniards use cabra when they talk food.

If they had cabron on the menu, they were really being tongue in cheek!

Do a translation search....... I wouldn't eat a cabron, but I have dated a few cabronas

 

[Dale Allen Raby]

Some years back I encountered... something... pestering my parent's chickens in Greenbrier... which, if memory serves is about midway between Toad Suck and Pickle's Gap (no, I'm not making this up, those are real places in Arkansas). In any case, it was a smallish creature that growled at me... so I shot at it in the dark with a Colt .22 revolver. It retreated to the brush and I never did find it. In the morning there was no blood trail, but it never pestered the chickens again.

To this day I don't know just what it was. I can only suppose that it was some sort of predator that lives in Arkansas that I never encountered in Wisconsin so didn't recognize. I dunno, maybe it was somebody's pet Tasmanian devil or something else that escaped. They did actually have an emu eating from their bird feeder in the back yard. I can still hear my dad calling mom: "Maaarrrrlllleeene, come 'ere, you got to see this!"

 

[mushka]

Where ever I go in the wilds of town , or the wilds out of town I always am armed. There is not a single wild creature that lives in the area that I do that I'm afraid of. The domestic human is a different story, they can't be trusted to leave a person alone.

 

[Rawhide67]

I was chased out of the saranac river near Lake Placid NY, by a black bear. Don't know what he had in mind, but I didn't stick around to find out, and he didn't pursue me very far.

On the cougar subject, I saw a juvenile cross the road in front of my car 2 years ago. Rural upstate NY. The state says they're not here, but I beg to differ. I'm. Not prone to exaggeration and nothing else looks like a cougar. Too big for a bobcat, with a tail that would have touched the ground had the animal not had the tip curled up in a J shape

My friends and co workers didn't really believe me, but that fine.

Fortunately, I've never been stalk by a cougar.

 

[chorizo]

I ALWAYS carry when riding a bike:

https://www.tmz.com/2021/04/20/black-bear-mountain-biker-montana-video/

 

[ColonialRifleSmith]

My brother in law saw one in Wycoff run, Cameron co. I do not doubt he saw it. There have been other credible people that have seen them in PA.

The only thing is, there are half a billion trail cams in Pa. SOMEBODY has to get a picture once in awhile.

A friend sent me a trail cam photo that was going around. It was a cougar stalking a deer. It was supposedly taken in the valley where I live in PA.

It was stalking a mule deer. I KNOW there aren’t any of them in PA. Lol

About 2 years ago, I think, a trail cam did get a pic of one in Clearfield Co. It was a clear unmistakable image. The legs of his tree stand were in the pic. He put the cam where it was so he could see if anyone was messing with his stand. You may still be able to find the pic somewhere on the net. Semper Fi.

 

[JEBMs]

 

[JEBMs]

a few weeks after the picture came out in the paper about a cougar I got the second one on a trail camera about 600-700 yards from where the original pic was taken. Just a big doggone bobcat. But I have heard screams in the woods that I can’t chalk up to a bobcat, that just wasn’t one