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Re: Cougar Attack ????
« Reply #15 on: July 22, 2009, 08:53:12 AM »
i still don't think its a predator either. some hair loss or shedding  or irritated skin or something. i'd be looking for more pronounced claw or teeth marks or something. that irritation looks like something's been rubbing on it.
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Re: Cougar Attack ????
« Reply #16 on: July 23, 2009, 11:24:26 PM »
 No way to know what happened to that doe. I am getting lots of deer pics on the set now.  I hope this  is not a pic of the "cougar" everyone has been seeing around this area. Their dog was mauled in April. Sometimes, people get paranoid and everything looks like a cougar
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Re: Cougar Attack ????
« Reply #17 on: July 24, 2009, 05:58:04 AM »
No way to know what happened to that doe. I am getting lots of deer pics on the set now.  I hope this  is not a pic of the "cougar" everyone has been seeing around this area. Their dog was mauled in April. Sometimes, people get paranoid and everything looks like a cougar
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That looks like Dman's bobcat.




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Re: Cougar Attack ????
« Reply #18 on: July 24, 2009, 07:07:05 AM »
What do you think Dman? Cougar? :dunno:   :chuckle:
Their going down!!!

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Re: Cougar Attack ????
« Reply #19 on: July 24, 2009, 03:27:47 PM »
Doesn't look like a cougar to me Bob, and don't think a cougar tried to get the deer either.  I know you have lot's of cougars in the area and a deer hasn't much chance if a cougar makes up it's mind to get one.

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Re: Cougar Attack ????
« Reply #20 on: July 24, 2009, 03:31:33 PM »
Oh god, here we go again  :chuckle:

Looks like you got Chester on your trail cam.

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Re: Cougar Attack ????
« Reply #21 on: July 24, 2009, 10:00:38 PM »
  In 1996, we had three cougars hanging our around our house all summer, a female with two yearling cubs, We found six whitetail deer cougar kills within 200 yards of our house that summer. Two of those kills were within 50 yards of our house. I sat and watched one of the close kills with my rifle one evening, but the cats did not return until after dark. While I was watching that kill, one of our dogs went to the kill. That was in June. When I came home from work one evening in August, I found that same dog laying in our front yard. It looked like it had been dropped in  a paper shredder. It was covered with dried blood and flies. I thought it was dead, so I went to get a shovel to bury it. When I returned with the shovel, my wife had arrived from work, and she was bawling. She said she saw the dogs eyes blink, so we loaded the dog up and rushed it to the vet. This happened on a Friday, and the vet kept the dog until Monday evening. When we left the vet that night, we were told the dog might not survive. But it did survive. We went to pick up the dog Monday evening to bring it home. The vet had shaved it so he could stitch up the wounds. This dog was a 40 pound Dingo. It has twelve canine punctures to its throat. The cat had tried three times to kill the dog by biting its throat. Somehow, the dog made it back to our yard before it collapsed.  I think the dog found a kill somewhere in the woods, and one of the 50 pound cubs jumped it, because I am sure an adult female would have dispatched the dog very quickly.  Most of the problems caused around rural residences are from small cats that are not accomplished hunters.  Cats don't always make quick clean kills. The Eastman's Hunting Journal had a DVD called " Hunting Mule Deer High and Low". On this DVD, there is video footage of a 150 pound cougar tom taking down and killing a 160 class mule deer buck. The cat had a hard time with that buck before it finally got the upper hand. The buck kicked the cat in the head several times. I think those blows would have knocked me out. That cougar mule deer battle is worth the price of the DVD. Some times, deer are not as easy to kill as you might think. It would be easy for a small cat to let one get away. That almost happened on that DVD footage. The deer in these pictures has lots of wounds that can't be explained. Who knows what could have caused them
  Cliff, If you think I thought that yellow tabby cat is a cougar, then you did not read my post closely. I made this set because of reported cougar sightings in this area. I was cracking a joke saying I hope this is not the cougar everyone has been seeing because if it is I am wasting my time with this set.
  I have seen plenty of cougars, I know one when I see it.
Bob
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Re: Cougar Attack ????
« Reply #22 on: July 25, 2009, 03:22:08 PM »
Dman's Bobcat?  :chuckle:
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Re: Cougar Attack ????
« Reply #23 on: July 25, 2009, 09:50:39 PM »
  I have not checked this camera for three days, but I plan on checking in tomorrow. I hope to get more pics of this doe. The last time I checked it was only bucks. I have been trying to locate pictures of 8 deer that were killed by cougars ten to thirteen years back. These kills were all close to our house. The wounds on all of those deer are on the head, neck shoulders and throat. This is consistent with where all the marks are on this doe. Thirteen years ago, after our dog had healed for three or four weeks, his neck looked just like this doe's neck. I have ruled out barbed wire and hit by a car because of where the marks are located and because there is not one scratch on the doe's four legs. Here are some close-ups of the doe. I can see three claw marks and wounds to the neck that are healing. There is definitely more here than molting.





 This is a picture of a cow elk that was killed by a cougar. My wife, son and I found this while hunting mushrooms nine years ago. I think the death blow was a bite to the throat that crushed the windpipe. The cow's tounge was hanging out of the corner of her mouth, and her eyes are bulging out of her skull. This is a still from a VHS video. I have more stills of this elk somewhere. As I was making this video, I was describing the kill to the camcorder. I did not hear what was taking place in the background until we watched the video later that night. Right about here my son said he heard something moving around downhill in the brush. So he started throwing rocks. My wife said I am not sticking around to see what it is and she took off.
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Re: Cougar Attack ????
« Reply #24 on: August 02, 2009, 06:12:45 PM »
Well Well anything yet more pics I hope COUGAR yet?

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Re: Cougar Attack ????
« Reply #25 on: August 04, 2009, 03:23:23 PM »
looks like the deer was attcked by something. no way thats hair loss. i am a expert on that subject :dunno:
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Re: Cougar Attack ????
« Reply #26 on: August 04, 2009, 03:30:39 PM »
Oh god, here we go again  :chuckle:

Looks like you got Chester on your trail cam.

Cheetah   :chuckle:

I thought Chester walked on its hind legs....half cheetah half sasquatch  :dunno:  :chuckle:

 


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