French cats. They sit contemptuously in MontMartre cafes with their black beret's down over their eyes and snap their fingers to leftist performance art.
French cats. They sit contemptuously in MontMartre cafes with their black beret's down over their eyes and snap their fingers to leftist performance art.
We have a Mt. Lion on the 4B or maybe I should say we found cat scat a week ago. There are several digs under the game fence big enough for coyotes and cats. Two ranchers that border our property have seen them multiple times and recently. Not good for the fawn crop! Still, I hate killing the cats. Coyotes are a dime a dozen and I'll be putting some snares out over the Labor Day weekend. I don't mind the bobcats so much but I hope we don't have a problem with the long tailed cats.
Interesting timing on the subject of cougars/mountain lions! I was going to tell you about the one that was hit by a car in Kansas City last fall (and determined to be wild), but it got MUCH more interesting last night: Several people on a local walking trail saw a cougar drinking out of a small stream yesterday. About three blocks from my house! Made the local news and everything. This is a walking trail that a lot of people use, although it has been too hot and muggy here of late to use it much. That would also explain why there are a lot less deer sightings around here lately. What should make it more interesting is that there is a children's petting zoo with short fences right around the corner and on that same trail. Might be interesting to take a walk down that trail with a camera...
Not that it matters much in the grand scheme of things, the local suburban newspaper prints police reports and they said it was the driver, and not the passenger who was killed. This same suburban newspaper also is like the big newspapers in that a lot of the news they print isn't very factual, but everyone agrees the Viper was going fast and went out of control and flipped over and one of the people in it was killed. :bawling:
Another cougar sighting has been reported. A Wabash County man reported the animal ran out in front of him on CR 750W approximately two weeks ago.
To help solve this mystery, Karen Hoag, of Black Pine Animal Park, Albion, has offered her expertise if anyone can locate and preserve a cougar paw print. To preserve the print, Hoag says to cover it with a cereal bowl, protecting it from wind and rain, and then call her at 260-636-7383. She said she will be happy to come and confirm or deny the print.
As a side note, Hoag said not to fear for the life of your family dog. Cougars generally prefer to eat deer, though when starving or sick, they will sometimes attack a confined animal.
We call them Mountain Lions here in Texas , and that map is wrong , They range over much more of Texas than the map indicates. We have them on our family land near the Mexico border,(Laredo), and I see the paw prints all over place.
Online from Northeastern Pennsylvania Honesdale, PA
Proudly serving Honesdale-Wayne County, PA Monday September 1, 2003
'Big Cat' Sightings Continue By PETER BECKER
LOOKOUT - Another intriguing photograph of a "big cat" was presented to The Wayne Independent, taken by Janice Klinkiewicz from her back deck at Lookout in northern Wayne County, Wednesday evening.
While the exact identification remains to be made, she stated that the animal was huge, tan colored and had a long tail, maybe half the length of its body. It ended in a black, curving tip. Unfortunately, the tail is not visible in the picture.
She said she was sitting on her deck at about 6:30 p.m. talking to a friend on the phone when she was startled by something moving out in the grass, before the tree line. As she excitedly described the scene to her friend, she watched the animal for a couple minutes, which appeared to be nonchalant and unhurried. She then went inside for her camera; the "big cat" was startled, and got up and walked about 15 or 20 feet, before disappearing out of view.
The distance to the tree line from the deck is about 60 or 70 feet.
The animal was highly "muscular," she stated. It was about as long as their adult Golden Retriever, though not as high off the ground.
Mrs. Klinkiewicz said she has lived here all her life and never saw anything like this.
There have been many reports of a possible mountain lion in Wayne County. Some reports may be explained as a bobcat sighting or something else, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, which maintains that mountain lions no longer roam the wild in Pennsylvania- unless there was an escaped or abandoned pet.
