dead cougar

[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