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[GSVette]

Got an alert from my video surveillance system at my Spokane, WA area shop-had the following still photo attached



Think I’ll be watching a bit more carefully when I’m out and about

 

[snymat68]

:cat::cat::cat:

 

[oosik]

WoW!! An entire herd of them. I live out SW of Cheney and they are quite successfully hunted around here.

Now THAT would be a real rude awakening some dark night.

 

[GSVette]

Thought you might comment oosik-I’m out near Mead.

It appears to be a mother and her two young’uns. The video is a bit amusing as the smaller ones near the front door are whackin each other upside the head and mom turns and gives’em a dirty look-kids....

Thinking about getting a cougar tag this year and doing some wounded rabbit calls. Tanned pelt would look pretty nice in the shop

 

[orezok]

I think I found him

 

[oosik]

Short story. About 25 years ago - early evening. Commotion on the entry way deck. Open the door - in walk two large coon-hound type dogs. Before anything could be said - they are over by the wood stove - sound asleep. So I gingerly pet one - twist his heavy leather collar - a brass plate with owner's name & phone #. I call - he lives up near Newport but isn't home right now. He'd down west of Cheney hunting "cats". He calls as soon as he got home. Very happy to find that his two dogs are OK. They were chasing a cougar and got lost.

So later that evening the owner is at the door. Very happy reunion. He tells me about where they were hunting. I chuckle. Ha, ha - hunting Cougars in this area. He says - "come out and look in the bed of my pickup". There is one gigantic dead cougar - stretched out in the bed of his pickup. They hunt an area just five miles west of me.

That was a long time ago but I'm still very wary when going outside at night. I wouldn't want/need to meet a little family like in your picture.

A tanned/mounted pelt would be a nice center piece on the living room floor. Good way to start a conversation with guests.

 

[EddieWalker]

WOW!!! I've only seen one in my life and that was near Yosemite. A buddy and I had backpacked into an area to see if it would be good for deer hunting and while watching a bunch of does feeding on the side of a ridge, they all of a sudden disappeared. We both noticed it and found it odd that we couldn't see a single deer anymore. I think there where 7 or 8 of them out in the open before the vanished. Then out of nowhere, a mountain lion appeared from the left and walked across the ridge where all the deer had been. We watched him for a minute or so before it went into the trees. This was late in the day, but still plenty of light out. What amazed me the most was how it seemed to float across the rocks. Very fluid in its movement. Once it was out of sight, the deer just started showing up again. There was a very weird feeling to all of it.

 

[Thomas]

Nice :thumbsup: always wanted to see one in the wild.

 

[coobie]

Great pic..

 

[the old grind]

You fellas have a real motivation for carrying a side-arm. Speer Gold Dots or Hornady Critical Defense hands-down, based on our media testing. :2cents:

I buy most tags that aren't drawn for, even years when certain I won't hunt, fish, or trap. Get the tag, Boss, you don't have to fill it.

We have hoops to jump through here if we catch a bobcat when setting/snaring for 'coon & coyote. Having a tag on your catch can expedite getting checked in w/DNR if/as required, and the feline fur tanned before ill befalls it. S__ will come out of the woodwork to mess it up quicker than you might imagine. (DAMHIK)

 

[GSVette]

I generally carry when out and about on the property-357 w/ hollow points or 30-30.

Probably will get tags going forward-just so I can take one if opportunity presents. I generally always pull tags for deer and turkey even if I don’t manage to get out to try and fill them because of other constraints.

 

[Jstpssng]

Some how that's not what I envision when I hear news reports of "cat burglars."

 

[Evets Tsorf]

I have lived in the Santa Cruz mountains for over 40 years, these cats are in our hood but seldom seen. I have seen one in that time, see tracks, see there kill and have heard them take down deer in the forest. Two years ago one was sleeping in my driveway and spotted by a neighbor on his way to work. There are places I stopped mountain biking on as I got the feeling I was on the menu there. One of my coworkers lives about four miles away and took this video out his living room window two weeks ago. The Coyote was not so willie this time.

Sorry, can not load video but, it showed a mountain lion walking outside his living room window dragging a coyote and one other lion following him. Their dog has been restricted to the house mornings and evenings now.

 

[RNeumann]

I generally carry when out and about on the property-357 w/ hollow points or 30-30.

Probably will get tags going forward-just so I can take one if opportunity presents. I generally always pull tags for deer and turkey even if I don’t manage to get out to try and fill them because of other constraints.

I’m about 40 miles east of you. We see the cat kills (deer mostly) all around us but never the cats. They say cats have seen you....you just haven’t seen them!!

 

[Evets Tsorf]

I mountain bike in the area and used to sneak onto some San Jose Water Company property along the Los Gatos Creek, there where many deer trails coming down from the hills to the creek and quite secluded, I had seen mountain lion tracks and kill in this area. I was on a trail below a stand of trees and got the willies with a chill going up my back. Felt like I was being watched, I do not ride in that area alone, prefer to stay higher on the food chain.

 

[hawkeye08]

It is sad when city folks move to our rural area and then turn the little yapper dogs out to go potty at night. Coyotes and such are always hungry, Cats have to eat too.

 

[Jstpssng]

It is sad when city folks move to our rural area and then turn the little yapper dogs out to go potty at night. Coyotes and such are always hungry, Cats have to eat too.

There are many who want to reintroduce wolves back here. One reason that I'm against it is because I like my dog, he likes going to work with me... and we were here first.

 

[Diggin It]

.. and we were here first.

You've been there since the 1800s?

 

[ovrszd]

You've been there since the 1800s?

Oh, good one!!!

I contend if the predator wants to harm you, you will never see it coming.

To be effective with a gun you willl need to start shooting long before the threat has been confirmed. So, you'll hafta shoot on sight.

 

[Jstpssng]

You've been there since the 1800s?

No, but those western wolves haven't, either.