Alligator Attacks Our Tractor

[CurlyDave]

Did you get any pictures of the cat?

This one is from OR, not OK. It was stalking a deer hunting party about 2 years ago. My neighbor just got it back from the taxidermist.

For a size comparison, the housecat on the windowledge behind it is just your ordinary average-size cat. Not particularly large or small.

Keep a digital camera ready at all times!

I would rather have my Smith & Wesson if I ever met his brother...

[Renze]

Dave, that housecat of yours, i think that's what Europeans call a Lynx ??
I've never seen one, but i do know that there are populations in the Alps, they are kept high up in the mountains by farmers that protect their cattle.

[CurlyDave]

i think that's what Europeans call a Lynx

Around here it is called a puma, or mountain lion.

In North America lynx are significantly smaller than these. European lynx are larger than North American lynx, although I don't think European lynx get as big as this one.

This is one of the largest I have ever seen, although I am certainly not an expert on wild cats.

[Renze]

Hmm... i thought a puma only lived in Africa... I think there are also some mixed up names for the same animal, depending on continent...
I'm not an expert on any predator either, our ancestors killed most of them. Bears and wolves are long gone here, sometimes you can see a lost German lynx in a national park. actually i dont know if there is a real population or just a lone ranger that walked in here from Germany...

The european lynx has a kind of hair brush on each ear tip.

[HGM]

Originally Posted by Renze

Hmm... i thought a puma only lived in Africa... I think there are also some mixed up names for the same animal, depending on continent...
I'm not an expert on any predator either, our ancestors killed most of them. Bears and wolves are long gone here, sometimes you can see a lost German lynx in a national park. actually i dont know if there is a real population or just a lone ranger that walked in here from Germany...

The european lynx has a kind of hair brush on each ear tip.

I've always called that a cougar(or Florida Panther)... The Lynx is a totally different cat, very similar to a bobcat..This link has some cool info..

[Renze]

Hmm yes, in NA you've got also bobcats... for some reason i find it a pity not having a chance to see more big cats in the bush around our place, but when i think of the havoc only the population of foxes and buzzards make to our chicken and feasants population, i'm actually happy that we dont have as many predators around..

My neighbor has some wild cats in the bush, they are just extraordinary big but they are born from normal European short haired domestic cats. He keeps feeding them milk (or actually they scare off the farm cats off their feed, so he feeds them so much that the wild cats, (and occasionally our dogs) leave enough food for his own farm cats

[SkyPup]

We have a bobcat that keeps getting our ducks, geese and chickens, usually on a rainy night when the dogs cannot hear or smell him sneaking in for the kill. I've seen the bobcat with some of my geese in his mouth and he is a beautiful animal. Listening to them scream can make every hair on your body stand straight up!

I'd trap or kill the bobcat, but they are solitary cats with about a 5-10 square mile range that they mark, no other bobcat will enter their range or they will have a major fight when they meet.

So it is best to leave the bocats alone, killing one will just allow the other two nearby to move into the empty range. I'll just have to sacrifice our ducks and geese to them now and then....

[SkyPup]

Was out walking behind the barn this past weekend checking out the blue and green wing teal on our pond along with a couple dozen wood ducks and found this dead gator on the other side of the pond.

He must have gotten lost or maybe died of old age as he's about 10+ feet long.

[kmdigital]

Originally Posted by Timber

What a fasinating thread, Thank you, I'll stay hear in Massachusetts, nothing gona eat me hear

Are you sure about that?! Seems to me that in Taxachusetts, the politicians will eat you alive, financially speaking, but make sure you are still around to suffer and so that can get another pound of flesh from you as soon as you heal a little bit!

[JimR]

Originally Posted by kmdigital

Are you sure about that?! Seems to me that in Taxachusetts, the politicians will eat you alive, financially speaking, but make sure you are still around to suffer and so that can get another pound of flesh from you as soon as you heal a little bit!

That is the God honest truth too. Now it is going to get even worse as we now have a Dummycrat Governor to go along with the Dummycrat Reps and Senators. Whoa is me and all the other trying to survive people in this state. I forsee a giant spending spree by the Dummycrats in 2007. Taxes will be going through the roof. Social programs are going to get a big boost in this liberal idiotic state of uselessness and laziness. Illegals will be allowed to get a license so that they can drive to work. They will be allowed to live in subsidized housing and go to our schools supported by our tax dollars. I'm afraid I am going to be eaten alive by political stupidity. I think I would have a better chance against a gator. At least I could shoot him in self defense. They haven't had an open season on politicians yet One would think that a state that told the Brits were to go with their taxation without representation would stand up and tell these politicians were to go. Unfortunately we have a lot of people here that have no clue. Instead the good people leave for greener pastures. I would love to, but cannot talk the wife into leaving.