Look at all the cats

[billythekidrock]

8 cats on that last pic...must be a hungry bunch!

I count 9 in that last picture... the one close up to the camera and right in the middle you can see the back of the cat but you can't see the head..

You stole my post.

C'mon guys....clean your glasses. There are "only"  8. What you think is the back of a cat is actually a snow covered rock.

[rjn cajun]

Wow that`s insane the game department needs to get there head out of there @#$%^ What area was this cam in if ya don`t mind me asking? I hunt deer and elk in one of the migratory feeding areas. Haven`t heard of to many sightings this past year but in the previous there have been many. Ever wonder how many times you have walked near one while in the woods?

[jackmaster]

where i hunt is all timber not a clearcut in sight, and i found 3 cougar kills within 100 yrds of each other 2 of them were young healthy bucks the other a young doe, i was just surprised because when i was young i was told that cougars hunt out of need....B.S...... they hunt for fun, they are just kittys playing with toys and only return to kills when they havent made a fresh kill, and they kill as many deer a week as they can, not one a week

[Hornseeker]

That is insane...wow!

The one a week figure is an avg... not a rule. They will kill more, they will kill less...

I love cougars, I think they are the coolest animal in the woods by far... BUT... I also like to kill them...just like I like to kill about any other animal that roams the woods!!!

[JimmyHoffa]

where i hunt is all timber not a clearcut in sight, and i found 3 cougar kills within 100 yrds of each other 2 of them were young healthy bucks the other a young doe, i was just surprised because when i was young i was told that cougars hunt out of need....B.S...... they hunt for fun, they are just kittys playing with toys and only return to kills when they havent made a fresh kill, and they kill as many deer a week as they can, not one a week

They are big into surplus killing.  Especially the younger toms.  The one deer a week study was done in Idaho using some older tracking techniques.  They didn't account for all the rabbits and birds that cougars eat too (they just assumed a biomass equivalent).  Other studies are showing higher consumption.  One in California shows them eating about 6 deer a week.  They eat the meat if it is 'fresh', so for example a deer killed in warm weather may only be half consumed while a deer killed mid winter in the snowy parts can be completely devoured.  Deer size also makes a difference---twelve 20 pound fawns or one 240 pound buck or a 600 pound elk.

[snowyaker]

Wow that is really ridiculous!  I can't  believe that there really are that many cats in one place at one time. 

[DBHAWTHORNE]

That's crazy!

[jdurham]

I hope you send those pictures to the Game Department!

[TheHunt]

How do you locate the migatory zones?

[poulsbo]

Does anyone know who's trail cam took this pic? could this be photo shopped? i know we have way too many cats in Wa. but this is way overboard! The people that i pay $150.00 +++ for a liscence need to do something about this now!

[rjn cajun]

Turkey Slayer wondering if you`ve been back to check the cam and what was going on? Anymore pics of the cats?

[Skyvalhunter]

i heard it was up near the Pasayten.

[turkey slayer]

its not my camera but I heard 2 cats have been taken in the area. The camera was set in Douglas Co. Mite make it in there to see what is going on this weekend but we will see.

[frostman]

I received these game cam pitures on e-mail a couple different times in last couple weeks. The last e-mail I received on this was also questioning whether it might have been photo shopped. I intended to post the pictures tonight to ask the same questions I am seeing on this thread.
Both e-mails I received had this tag line on it -

"The wife of a rancher who lives about 25-30 miles from Soap
Lake, WA sent these pictures which were taken nine miles from her house. A
cow was
found killed and the trail cam was put in place to see what was
preying on it.

The weather was so weird that tracks won't stay long. You can
count up to eight cats in two of the pictures.

Who'd ever heard of eight cougars  at a kill site?

They're acting more like a pride of lions than the
solitary cougars they normally are."

The jpeg pics name says: taken at liberty ordchards palisades, wa just south of wenatchee.

Wenatchee and Soap Lake? Where is Palisades, Wa?
Not sure if some one's dickin with us all?

[mulehunter]

I received these game cam pitures on e-mail a couple different times in last couple weeks. The last e-mail I received on this was also questioning whether it might have been photo shopped. I intended to post the pictures tonight to ask the same questions I am seeing on this thread.
Both e-mails I received had this tag line on it -

"The wife of a rancher who lives about 25-30 miles from Soap
Lake, WA sent these pictures which were taken nine miles from her house. A
cow was
found killed and the trail cam was put in place to see what was
preying on it.

The weather was so weird that tracks won't stay long. You can
count up to eight cats in two of the pictures.

Who'd ever heard of eight cougars  at a kill site?

They're acting more like a pride of lions than the
solitary cougars they normally are."

The jpeg pics name says: taken at liberty ordchards palisades, wa just south of wenatchee.

Wenatchee and Soap Lake? Where is Palisades, Wa?
Not sure if some one's dickin with us all?

Yes. That's where I grew up back of area. If u going from wentachee to Quincy. U would pass rock island and few miles past on ur left name palisades rd.all way anywhere u want to find place to hunt cougars. Between soap lake and rock island.  I am telling u people. I know several strongly ranchers out there try keep all hunter out. Even they own horse and scouting around their area sometime.  No wonder cougars are safe out there. U got to ask them nicely and if they can let u hike above cliffs and wheat field. U wont have trouble find cougars.  Hundreds of deer out there.

Hope it help u people.     because I know this area very well.

Mulehunter