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So Apparently There's a Mountain Lion in My Neighborhood
Posted on 1/23/15 at 1:01 pm
Posted on 1/23/15 at 1:01 pm
Reports started to trickle in during the last few weeks and I initially dismissed them. I thought these were fools mistaking bobcats or coyotes for a mountain lion.
But, the reports are starting to convince me.
Three reports within the same 6 mile area.
One of the people who saw it is from CA, and has reportedly seen them out west several times, and is sure of what he saw.
Another reported, "It definitely had a long tail."
The community I live in is divided up by tracts of common property, sometimes several hundred acres of it at a time. A few miles from where the sightings were, there is a section of common property that is very large.
We have a good population of deer and small game.
I'm gonna put some game cameras out.
If I get anything, I'll be sure to post it.
One Story
But, the reports are starting to convince me.
Three reports within the same 6 mile area.
One of the people who saw it is from CA, and has reportedly seen them out west several times, and is sure of what he saw.
Another reported, "It definitely had a long tail."
The community I live in is divided up by tracts of common property, sometimes several hundred acres of it at a time. A few miles from where the sightings were, there is a section of common property that is very large.
We have a good population of deer and small game.
I'm gonna put some game cameras out.
If I get anything, I'll be sure to post it.
One Story
Posted on 1/23/15 at 1:02 pm to LSUfan20005
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.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 1:09 pm to LSUfan20005
Sounds like Arky is going to be having Mountain Lion kittens this spring.
These cats are bad news on livestock
These cats are bad news on livestock
Posted on 1/23/15 at 1:13 pm to Sparkplug#1
I don't think I knew about the dude from Bastrop killing one in S. Arky.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 1:16 pm to Sparkplug#1
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Bella Vista
Del Boca Vista!
Posted on 1/23/15 at 1:22 pm to LSUfan20005
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So Apparently There's a Mountain Lion in My Neighborhood
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.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 1:27 pm to LSUintheNW
It's amazing to me how the AGFC continues to lie in the face of steadily increasing facts and sightings.
We obviously have a population of them... even if it's not a large population. don't understand why they want to pretend they don't exist.
We obviously have a population of them... even if it's not a large population. don't understand why they want to pretend they don't exist.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 4:36 pm to ElDawgHawg
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.
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.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 5:09 pm to Captain Rumbeard
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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.
I heard one in E TN about 20 years ago. Exactly right.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 5:17 pm to Captain Rumbeard
quote:I've always pondered what I would do if I were in my boxstand at dusk and heard this. I think I'd sleep in my stand cuddling my rifle until dawn. frick that
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.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 5:20 pm to ElDawgHawg
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. don't understand why they want to pretend they don't exist.
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.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 5:44 pm to LSUfan20005
You are definitely in an area that they are moving into. A National Geographic map that is fairly recent:
Posted on 1/23/15 at 5:47 pm to Tigris
That cougar sighting around Lafayette must have been at Scandals.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 6:06 pm to ForeverLSU02
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I've always pondered what I would do if I were in my boxstand at dusk and heard this. I think I'd sleep in my stand cuddling my rifle until dawn. frick that
Huh....I'd be as confident as hell in that situation. Of course that would change once I left the stand.
I'd fire off a few rounds before I got down. Hopefully that'd be enough to scare it off as I got the hell out of there.
Posted on 1/24/15 at 2:32 pm to LSUintheNW
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.
Posted on 1/24/15 at 3:16 pm to Tigris
Interesting map. But it ain't up to date as far as our area is concerned. They are definitely in Kentucky, SW Virginia, West Virginia, and NC.
Posted on 1/24/15 at 3:36 pm to Captain Rumbeard
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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.
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.
Posted on 1/24/15 at 3:47 pm to Captain Rumbeard
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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. We spent the rest of the night with pistols in our hands.
It makes you able to run faster than Usain Bolt also.
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