Cougar

jack707 · Jul 27, 2016

I didn't want to get that close!!.

check · Jul 28, 2016

PJSprog said:
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.

Good idea, as they will attack humans. There have been several attacks near Canmore Alberta, in the mountains, just west of Calgary.

r porter · Jul 28, 2016

Arkansas
DNA Reveals Mountain Lion Killed in Arkansas Born in Western U.S.

buickanddeere · Jul 29, 2016

Apparently we have at least one in Huron County . About time something out a run on the coyote/eastern red wolf cross breeds.

Steave · Jul 29, 2016

buickanddeere said:
Apparently we have at least one in Huron County . About time something out a run on the coyote/eastern red wolf cross breeds.

Are you serious about the coyote/eastern red wolf cross breeds? I've heard of this but never knew for sure. What are they called a coyolf or a wolyote.

buickanddeere · Jul 29, 2016

Steave said:
Are you serious about the coyote/eastern red wolf cross breeds? I've heard of this but never knew for sure. What are they called a coyolf or a wolyote.

For reasons unknown the eastern red wolf in Algonquin Park will tolerate the western coyote . They will co-exist and interbreed.
Now the small jawed, lightweight , curious smart coyote that hunts singularly or in pairs from the US south west. Has crossed genes with a shy but larger wolf with powerful jaws that hunts in packs. The coywolf has the best/worst of both.

Steave · Jul 29, 2016

buickanddeere said:
For reasons unknown the eastern red wolf in Algonquin Park will tolerate the western coyote . They will co-exist and interbreed.
Now the small jawed, lightweight , curious smart coyote that hunts singularly or in pairs from the US south west. Has crossed genes with a shy but larger wolf with powerful jaws that hunts in packs. The coywolf has the best/worst of both.

Oh boy sounds like trouble to me. We have lots of coyotes and everybody with sheep has to have guard dogs, a llama, or donkeys' with them. My cousin had a sheep farm a few years back and lost sheep to the coyotes. We don't have wolves down here. At least not that I know of and don't need them. I believe in live and let live but we have enough critters the way it is.

Steave · Jul 29, 2016

I meant to comment also about the packs you mentioned. The coyotes in my area are usually hunting by themselves or maybe mom teaching the little ones. Most everybody thinks they hunt in packs but I keep telling them I've never caught a pack of coyotes on the trial cams. Always a loner day or night. I see them hunting rats and rabbits in my hay fields but always just one.

tman1020 · Jul 30, 2016

In about 1995 or so in portage Indiana we had a neighbor that walked every morning religiously. He would carry a large wooden Walkingstick and cover quite a bit of ground. He apprehensively told me that one morning he saw a mountain lion. It was located just north of town on the edge of an undeveloped area at that time that was fairly large and Undisturbed mix of Woods. I know this is hearsay but he was not the bullshitter type and I have no reason to doubt his story and I believe him.
Also around 2000 my sister-in-law was coming home from working a night shift and had what she swears was a mountain lion jump over the hood of her car. I'm not sure of the exact location of that one but I know it was in Porter County Indiana. Also again hearsay but she is quite reliable and if she says it was a mountain lion it probably was.