Washington Cougar trail camera pics .....Lets see how many we all get.

[Ironhead]

A couple more Kitty's. Mom is chirping for the other kitten.

[BLDtraLR]

Kinda hard to see with the white out but there are 3 cats on this kill site i found. One in the front ,1 on the kill next to the tree and one in the back with glowing eye's. There was a total of 5 cat's on this kill 

[Mtnwalker]

A buddy of mine in grays harbor sent me these. This cam is right off his back yard

[hunter399]

A buddy of mine in grays harbor sent me these. This cam is right off his back yard

Coug pack right there.. 

[BLDtraLR]

A buddy of mine in grays harbor sent me these. This cam is right off his back yard

[WapitiTalk1]

Holy hell! 

[BLDtraLR]

    They killed the deer 100 yrds up on a hill drug it down and across a road and down a steep bank another 75 yrds under a tree. Pretty impressive the power these cats have it was quite the drag it was not a small deer.   

[SeaRun1]

Forgive my ignorance but I thought these big cats were solitary?  Is that picture with a pack or maybe a pride common for them?  That’s a sobering picture.

SR1

[nwwanderer]

My guess would be one mature female with older cub from a previous litter and three young cubs, what do you think?  Regardless, going to take a bunch of pets/livestock/deer to keep them fed.

[hunter399]

None of them look spotted kitten in that cougar pack.
Looks to be all fair game to hunt them.
 

[Mtnwalker]

At first I was thinking maybe a group of young toms but the first cat does appear to be bigger.

Here are the videos maybe one of our cat gurus can tell us

[jrebel]

Most of the pictures I have with multiple cats is a mom with cubs.  It appears, based on my trail cam pics, that the young cats will stay with the mom for two to three years.  The young cats, siblings or not, will then pal around in groups for another couple years.  Seeing groups of cats is not uncommon anymore.  I use to only get pics of singles and a double here and there.....but now It is not uncommon at all to have pics with 3-5 cats.  This alone tells me we have a population problem. 

[jrebel]

I’m no lion expert but my guess was the first cat was a female and the pack the next morning was a group of young toms?

Here are the videos maybe one of our cat gurus can tell us

That looks like a mom with 4, 1 year old kittens.  The mom is the first on on the left as we look at the screen.....the rest are kittens.  If you look at the inside of the legs and see black stripes....that usually indicates a young cat.  At least this is what a biologist told me.   

I am not the expert...but I ask bio's a ton of questions as I would like to know as much as possible about this apex predator. 

[Skyvalhunter]

The commission doesn't believe we have a problem in Wa. So what's the apex predator, cougar, wolf, soon to be introduced Grizzly?

[hunter399]

The commission doesn't believe we have a problem in Wa. So what's the apex predator, cougar, wolf, soon to be introduced Grizzly?

WDFW also says only a 100 wolves in the state and like only 2000 cougar .
Everybody is always quick to blame the Commission ,but they can only go with what WDFW tells them is on the ground.