dead cougar

[Huntin4Ever]

Cougar hit by a car along Lake Crescent this morning. I have never heard of a cougar getting hit by a car???

[2labs]

Wolves don't get hit either! Maybe more of both than we are being told. Or wdfw really is clueless.

[Gringo31]

Awwwww

 

[Jellymon]

Wolves don't get hit either! Maybe more of both than we are being told. Or wdfw really is clueless.

I took my cougar pelt with everything attached to get sealed in olymia and they couldt figure out if it was male or female. So im voting for both.

[2labs]

One of my favorites

[BOWHUNTER45]

That's crazy ...definitely something you do not see on an everyday basis 

[wadu1]

I was one on the way up Tiger Mountain last year and a nice Bobby in Montana this year. 

[bradslam]

I saw a dead cougar in late April just off of Miles-Creston Road at the top of the hill north of Hawk Creek (Lincoln County).  I assumed it was hit by a car, but it was kind of decomposing so it was hard to tell if someone shot it and dumped it or if it was roadkill.

[h2ofowlr]

Saw a dead cougar up past Cougar, WA a few years back.  Then saw another hit just east of Hamilton.  I just think they last two long along the side of the road.  They get loaded up into a rig pretty quickly.

[GrampasGuns]

Years ago in Redmond, where Redmond Ridge apt. Complex from hell is now. I witnessed a guy on a Harley Davidson nail a cougar going about 70. Neither fared well , cat was obviously dead and the biker was in seriously bad shape. Will never forget that

[bowhunterforever]

To make a long story short me and a buddy ran over a cougar in a jeep and we dukes of hazard it for a couple hundred feet after we hit it. the cat lost in the end and we got lucky, its a crazy story

[elk247]

To make a long story short me and a buddy ran over a cougar in a jeep and we dukes of hazard it for a couple hundred feet after we hit it. the cat lost in the end and we got lucky, its a crazy story

I feel short-changed. 

[bowhunterforever]

no further comments, the cat lost and we got lucky, its unbeliveable

[pianoman9701]

In Maine, one of the factors they use to determine the population of moose is the number of road kills they have in a given area (at least they used to use that info). I would surmise that if there are an increasing number of cougar road kills, that might lead us to make a certain assumption about their population growth. 

[bearpaw]

I've seen and heard of numerous cats hit along the roads in NE WA, never hit one myself yet.

[ELKBURGER]

Awwwww

 

:yeah:Poor wittle puddy tat.

[Netminder01]

I've seen and heard of numerous cats hit along the roads in NE WA, never hit one myself yet.

.... "yet" 

[Biggerhammer]

I've come close to hitting them at night in unit 266 on the larger dirt roads.

[Special T]

I had a buddy from college that wrecked his truck chasing a cat  crossing the road into the ditch with his girlfriend beside him... He was a hard core cat hater...

[KFhunter]

I've seen and heard of numerous cats hit along the roads in NE WA, never hit one myself yet.

I've hit 2

My commuter has claw marks on the left fender above the tire.

[raydog]

I've seen and heard of numerous cats hit along the roads in NE WA, never hit one myself yet.

I've hit 2

My commuter has claw marks on the left fender above the tire.

Of course they were accidents right?! 

[KFhunter]

I've seen and heard of numerous cats hit along the roads in NE WA, never hit one myself yet.

I've hit 2

My commuter has claw marks on the left fender above the tire.

Of course they were accidents right?! 

Honestly at 1am in the morning I see a flash of brown and my foot's on the brake hard.  No time to think "oh that's a cat" it's just automatic brake as if it were a deer.  As the front bumper of the car is skimming the blacktop in a full emergency brake nose dive I see "oh that's a cat" then it's over.

Last one jumped over the guardrail in front of me as I was travelling along a river then ran down the road in front of me, I was in a full brake nosedive but bumped it in the butt, the tail slapped down on my hood and it spun around and clawed the car then sailed straight up in the air.  I was along some steep cliff faces but the cat scrabbled up those cliffs like it was the Tasmanian devil,  clouds of dust and rocks rolled off the cliff from it's rapid ascent.

Quite impressive.

[KFhunter]

I commute through a deer winter range so see a lot of cats, in one 20 mile stretch I've seen two in one night run in front of me.

GMU 105, where the annual cougar harvest is 2 cats      

[Special T]

It sounds like you need a cattle catcher for your Prius KFhunter! 

[JimmyHoffa]

The paper delivery lady that runs the rural routes (2-4 am) has told me of seeing lots of cougars and bears in the road around that time frame.
I saw one in the road last year but it was a good 200 yds ahead.  It was in the woods before I could get to it.

[KFhunter]

sometimes they just run out of sight then wait for you to pass, not a good idea to stop and walk over where it went off the road 

Yup - know someone who did that and found themselves nose to nose with a cat that ran across the road then stopped just over the edge to wait for the car to pass 

[HntnFsh]

The paper delivery lady that runs the rural routes (2-4 am) has told me of seeing lots of cougars and bears in the road around that time frame.
I saw one in the road last year but it was a good 200 yds ahead.  It was in the woods before I could get to it.

You obviously need a faster rig! 

[AspenBud]

This one got popped just outside of Woodland a couple of years back...

http://www.katu.com/news/local/Very-angry-cougar-on-I-5-troopers-say-201619261.html