So Apparently There's a Mountain Lion in My Neighborhood

Break out the injured rabbit call, nightvision scope mounted AR and go sit on top of your roof at night. Your neighbors will thank you for saving their children's lives.

Sounds like Arky is going to be having Mountain Lion kittens this spring.

These cats are bad news on livestock

I don't think I knew about the dude from Bastrop killing one in S. Arky.

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So Apparently There's a Mountain Lion in My Neighborhood

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I have one in my hood. It's been spotted as close as 1 mile from my house. Wish I could see it, you know from my car.

About 10 years ago or so my family and my neighbors family went camping north of Albert Pike before you get to Bard Springs. We saw one cross the road while riding four wheelers that day. Thought it was cool but didn't think anything else about it. Yes, absolutely positive ID.

That night the thing was apparently headed north and the campsite we were in was between two mountains next to the creek. If he was going through, he had to either climb a mountain, or cross a creek and climb a cliff and a mountain. Path of least resistance went right by our camp. We hadn't thought about that because why would he come up to that many people and a couple of small dogs?

Well he did. We never saw it but he was between us and the creek which put him at less than fifty yards when he let out the loudest most hair raising scream I've ever heard in my life. He was either just pissed because we were that close or pissed because he couldn't pick off a dog or baby without coming into the light and there were too many adults. But for whatever reason, he made sure we knew he was there.

That scream was seriously blood curdling. Sounded like a woman in excruciating pain combined with an animal. Every last hair on my body went up. We spent the rest of the night with pistols in our hands.

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That scream was seriously blood curdling. Sounded like a woman in excruciating pain combined with an animal. Every last hair on my body went up.

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I heard one in E TN about 20 years ago. Exactly right.

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. don't understand why they want to pretend they don't exist.

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As long as the AGFC doesn't acknowledge a breeding population of mountain lions they don't have to have a management plan for them. Depredation permits, population studies, etc. require resources that the AGFC doesn't want to provide.

That cougar sighting around Lafayette must have been at Scandals.

I've been in a canyon in Texas coming out at dark after hunting and having seen a track in the mud at the bottom that was obviously a mountain lion. It's a severely creepy feeling walking under a cliff the whole time thinking that thing could come down on top of you at any second and you'd never know it till he had his teeth in you.

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It's a severely creepy feeling walking under a cliff the whole time thinking that thing could come down on top of you at any second and you'd never know it till he had his teeth in you.

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I know that feeling. Have almost tripped because I was looking up the whole time. Luckily I'm a man (most attacks are on women/children) and not on their list for food.

Still a terrible feeling. Lot worse without a gun.