Problem lion relocated--Duvall

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Who treed the tom??

[Watimberghost]

Thanks for finding that out. Interested to know how they pick their release spots.

[TheHunt]

You go to the release spot with goat and chicken calls to bring the problem cat in...

[npaull]

I think I'm technically a tree-hugger, but I STILL think that moving that cougar was a stupid idea. Shoot it and be done with it. Beautiful animal though for sure.

[bearpaw]

You go to the release spot with goat and chicken calls to bring the problem cat in...

Use the goat on the Jurassic cougar.... 

All kidding aside, cougar are suckers for goats, goats sound so much like deer, I think that's what makes goats so enticing to cats. 

[wildweeds]

I would put money on that cat will be back in less than 2 weeks.A buddy of mine had a cat trapped and relocated near his house, the cat was back in 10 days and shot by a local logger in downtown,it had killed cats,goats and dogs in his area before relocation.It was back from over 100 crow miles away sporting it's new fancy radio collar.

[HighlandLofts]

Most wild animals will return to the habtat they they consider home, Some from cosiderable distances. A friend use to live trap gray squirrels from his yard and relocated them a couple of miles from his house, with in days they returned. He bought some blue spray paint from the dollar store and spray painted their tails, so he knew when they returned. In Pennsylvania the game dept. would live trap nuisance bears and relocated them on to state land a hundred miles away and with in a month or so they would be back doing damage at the original location. These cougars are the same, they will make an all out effort to reclaim their territory that they staked out once they go out on their own. If an wild animal has taken to prey upon domestic animals it should be eliminated from the equation. If it doesn't return to the original location, it will be a problem at the new place it calls home. It's just common sence to take care of the problem while the cards are stacked in your favor, but common sence is what these tree hugging dumb whits are lacking that control this type of situation.

[Rufous]

What I would like to know is how they determined the age of that cougar so quickly. As far as I know the only way to accurately determine age is by sectioning a tooth and counting the growth rings (or something like that). It takes a good year before they will inform us hunters though. Must have gotten the fast track tooth sectioning treatment.

[Rufous]

What I would like to know is how they determined the age of that cougar so quickly. As far as I know the only way to accurately determine age is by sectioning a tooth and counting the growth rings (or something like that). It takes a good year before they will inform us hunters though. Must have gotten the fast track tooth sectioning treatment.

[dreamunelk]

What I would like to know is how they determined the age of that cougar so quickly. As far as I know the only way to accurately determine age is by sectioning a tooth and counting the growth rings (or something like that). It takes a good year before they will inform us hunters though. Must have gotten the fast track tooth sectioning treatment.

When they are alive or at least still warm there is a measurement from the gum line to a point on the canine that is very accurate.  Unfortunately it has been awhile and I can not remember exactly how to do it.   

[Wenatcheejay]

But, think of all the jobs that are created by relocation.

[Axle]

Not sure where he got his info, but do wonder what their relocation strategy is.

It's called job security. They know too. It will cause more problems and they will get to chase it again. What fun!

A friend of mine was getting rid of skunks under an old woman's house and she didn't want them killed. He told her they would return and they did. She accused him of only taking them a mile away so he caught one again and spray-painted a red stripe on it and had her drive with him to turn it free. At about 50 miles and two raging rivers away, she said 'here is good, there is no way it could return from here'. 10 days later she had a skunk under her house with red paint on its back.
She then said it was OK to dispatch the skunks. Funny how that works.

[cody29]

im new to this hunting stuff. but if anyone is going couger hunting I would like to come with I have a cat tag

[lokidog]

Not sure where he got his info, but do wonder what their relocation strategy is.

It's called job security. They know too. It will cause more problems and they will get to chase it again. What fun!

A friend of mine was getting rid of skunks under an old woman's house and she didn't want them killed. He told her they would return and they did. She accused him of only taking them a mile away so he caught one again and spray-painted a red stripe on it and had her drive with him to turn it free. At about 50 miles and two raging rivers away, she said 'here is good, there is no way it could return from here'. 10 days later she had a skunk under her house with red paint on its back.
She then said it was OK to dispatch the skunks. Funny how that works.

 

I shot a bear in Ontario many years ago.  It had been trapped in town behind a hamburger stand and ear tagged, then moved thirty five miles north of town.  I shot it about three weeks later, three miles east of town.

[WAcoyotehunter]

it might not come back.  Moving them after hazing them could send it packing.  Unless it was a home territory and the cat had been there a while it might just find some new space... or get killed by the tom who's home territory it just got dropped into... ?