Cougar kill site?

[quadrafire]

Turkey hunting this weekend, with my son. We came across what I suspect is a cougar kill site. I have seen pics on here before of deer covered with pine needles/debris. This one site had 4 distint piles of debris and deer hair/bones in each. Not fresh, but still gave me the willy's being there. I was certainly watching our backsides after that.
Question: Is it common for them to use the same site for multiple kills? The pics I have seen are only one animal.

Sorry no pics (left the dang camera at home)

[CAMPMEAT]

I'm thinkin' Yates is on the loose.
I wouldn't think so.

[quadrafire]

I'm thinkin' Yates is on the loose.
I wouldn't think so.

Funny you should say that. That was my wifes first thought when I told her

[CAMPMEAT]

It is pretty weird though. Was it near Spokane or further away ?

[saylean]

I would think cougs would burry the animal close to where it was killed, not necassarily drag it to a common burry site. But who knows!?

[blindpig]

I don't know, but my guess would be yes.

[quadrafire]

It is pretty weird though. Was it near Spokane or further away ?

Near Colville

[Hornseeker]

Was each site a separate animal? how close together were they?

Last year we found a spot in the Pryor Mts like that. A cat had about 3 or 4 buried carcasses in about a 100 yard square area. IT was a nice secure area and i think he was definitely dragging kills in to this common area. They were definitely of different ages...

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[runamuk]

probably bigfoot 

[bearpaw]

Turkey hunting this weekend, with my son. We came across what I suspect is a cougar kill site. I have seen pics on here before of deer covered with pine needles/debris. This one site had 4 distint piles of debris and deer hair/bones in each. Not fresh, but still gave me the willy's being there. I was certainly watching our backsides after that.
Question: Is it common for them to use the same site for multiple kills? The pics I have seen are only one animal.

Sorry no pics (left the dang camera at home)

Where I have seen multiple kills at the same site was when females had small kittens and would drag the kill back to where the kittens were stashed. I suspect you found a site where a female is keeping her small kittens nearby. Was there a rocky area or thick brush nearby?

I have seen where an 85 pound female cougar dragged multiple cow elk 1/4 to 1/2 mile back to the rockpile where her kittens were hiding in. I bet there were bones from a half dozen elk in a 75 yard wide area, with cougar female and kitten tracks everywhere.

[quadrafire]

Was each site a separate animal? how close together were they?

Last year we found a spot in the Pryor Mts like that. A cat had about 3 or 4 buried carcasses in about a 100 yard square area. IT was a nice secure area and i think he was definitely dragging kills in to this common area. They were definitely of different ages...

E

The entire site was only about 20 feet in diameter, 4 distinct piles of needles/sticks and each site had deer hair, one had some other kind of fur. There were very few bones (I didn't dig around) My son was getting kinda nervous and wanted to get that behind us Wish like heck I had picks, and sifted through the debris.
Kind of ironic, we walked up on  several deer and a coyote within 200 yrds of it.
I may try to go back next wknd and take the camera with me. I will post it if I do.

[quadrafire]

Bearpaw there was thick brush and rocks within a 100 yrds of this, but it was pretty open ponderosa forest at the location.

[CAMPMEAT]

I'm not going to Colville again, ever.

[quadrafire]

I'm not going to Colville again, ever.

Wait till fall when you have a tag in hand

[rainshadow1]

You don't have to worry much about it being right there watching unless it's pretty fresh, with lots of meat on it. (You don't have to worry too much anyway, with the exception of people under about 4 foot tall.) They can use the same spot especially if the kill area is too exposed for some reason or other. Then they'll drag to a known dining room. It'd shock you what they can move, as was mentioned above. They know their areas like you know the hallways and bathrooms etc. in your own house. If a safer place to feed is nearby, or if it's near a den with real young cubs, sure they'll drag to it. They know how old a kill is too, and how hot it's been, and etc.

It's what they do for a living...