jack707
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You don't need a big caliber gun to kill one either a 22 mag.to the head would put one down if your not good aiming use a 223.
Cougar
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Steave
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Dad caught this bobcat in the chicken pen. He was deer hunting close by because my sister has been missing some chickens on a regular basis. If they come across a easy meal they will return again and again. While they are not killed indiscriminately they have to go once they learn bad habits and zero in on your chickens.
My other neighbor had the same problem so she set a live trap and caught a baby bobcat in her chicken pen. She said it was so cute she let it go.
We are well blessed (as far as I'm concerned) with a lot of wildlife, I get trail pictures of bobcats occasionally but always at night so not good pictures. I'm still waiting on a mountain lion or Big Foot or one of those Godzilla Hogs.
My other neighbor had the same problem so she set a live trap and caught a baby bobcat in her chicken pen. She said it was so cute she let it go.
We are well blessed (as far as I'm concerned) with a lot of wildlife, I get trail pictures of bobcats occasionally but always at night so not good pictures. I'm still waiting on a mountain lion or Big Foot or one of those Godzilla Hogs. Moss:
I am down South in the area of 31 and New Road. That bear was never seen out our way. My family thinks I am crazy of the Cougar thing. Not because the DNR denies it, but I guess because I am crazy or something. Of course I hang out here so that might be exhibit A.
We are blessed with the wildlife in our area too. We had family over last night including a good number of younger kids. They got to see a couple of deer come out of the woods, walk across our property to the pond on the neighbor's land and take a drink. Then they caught wind of something because they were out of there like a flash.
The kids were amazed that this stuff exists in the real world and not just on TV or in a zoo. Sad really that more people are moving into cities and not living in the country.
I am down South in the area of 31 and New Road. That bear was never seen out our way. My family thinks I am crazy of the Cougar thing. Not because the DNR denies it, but I guess because I am crazy or something. Of course I hang out here so that might be exhibit A.
We are blessed with the wildlife in our area too. We had family over last night including a good number of younger kids. They got to see a couple of deer come out of the woods, walk across our property to the pond on the neighbor's land and take a drink. Then they caught wind of something because they were out of there like a flash.
The kids were amazed that this stuff exists in the real world and not just on TV or in a zoo. Sad really that more people are moving into cities and not living in the country.
jack707
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Tell the kids this is the real world not Disney!.
tractorshopper
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No surprise to me. I live 4 miles from GA. I swear I had one in my back yard a couple years ago. Sounded like a woman being murdered. I heard this sound over and over inside my home and over the noise of the TV. I thought my wife was watching a horror movie in the bedroom. She came out and walked by and heard it and asked me what that was. I told her I thought she had the other TV on and she said no.
I went outside with my pistol and flash light and headed in the direction to the back of my property where the woods start and while standing there, I thought if it lunged out, I'd be dinner, so I went back in. Brother in law lives several miles away, swears he saw one on a farmer's property about that same week.
Last year in Colorado hunting elk, I came face to face with one while climbing down a mountain in pitch black about an hour and a half before daylight would start. Thing stayed about 20 yards down hill of my cousin and I zig-sagging back and forth and occasionally trying to stalk up hill to us. My headlamp caught his eyes before I descended straight to where he was. Lucky I saw him first. That was a very exciting hour and 20 minutes that we were pinned down. Couldn't turn our backs and head back up because it was way too steep to make any time. Had to try to keep eyes on him. Would lose him occasionally, but pick him up again. We were bowhunting, but both had pistols that we carry just in case of bear attack. We both had them drawn just in case he closed too much distance on us. Was a really thrilling morning. Won't ever forget it.
k0ua
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There is not a day that goes by that I don't see several deer in our yard. While I have never seen a Mountain Lion here, they would sure have plenty to eat. But we live awful close to town.
dirt ditch
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Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks denied they were here until a Barber county farmer shot and killed one on his place in 2007. Then the cat was out of the bag so to speak.
DNR's manage by science. I've heard many of them answer to claims of bears, and even coyotes bobcats years ago, by saying "there's no proof...". I don't think that is denying as much as a scientific process requiring proof. They aren't in the business of spreading rumors or unsubstantiated claims, which is what all of our stories are until we have proof (pictures or specimen).
Then once proof is found of existence in an area, we usually hear that they have migrated in, or are passing through, but they are not reproducing in the area. And maybe they aren't, or at least we go with that until there is proof of that too.
Then once proof is found of existence in an area, we usually hear that they have migrated in, or are passing through, but they are not reproducing in the area. And maybe they aren't, or at least we go with that until there is proof of that too.
jack707
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The DNR should manage wildlife using common sense.
PJSprog
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Illinois seemed absent any large cats for decades, until recently. There have been several sightings and photographs from all around the state over the last couple of years. One just a few months ago was about 30 miles south and west of us near Waterloo, where a lady took a picture from a second floor window of a cougar walking up a driveway next to a wooded area.
I no longer walk out to the barn at night without a flashlight and a firearm.
I no longer walk out to the barn at night without a flashlight and a firearm.