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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: MeepDog on September 11, 2021, 08:11:58 PM

Title: Found a dead cougar
Post by: MeepDog on September 11, 2021, 08:11:58 PM: Found a dead cougar in the blues today while hunting black bears. I glassed it up on a hillside and couldn't tell what it was because the white patch was too big to be any deer/elk. It's pretty old and rotten, possibly winter kill? It looks like a juvenile and about the size of my Labrador. Not much sign of bears/coyotes eating it since the skin is still intact.
I run trail cams in the area and the only cats I've seen were full on adults. It's complete speculation, but it might have died from starvation, disease or a territorial dispute. :dunno:
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Post by: steeleywhopper on September 11, 2021, 08:41:38 PM: One less deer and elk eater in my old stomping grounds :tup:
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Post by: highcountry_hunter on September 11, 2021, 09:20:40 PM: Bad sign for sportsmen if the lions can’t even find enough game to eat
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Post by: Caseyd on September 11, 2021, 09:22:47 PM: Juvenile ran off kills by wolves during winter. Spring death

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Post by: MeepDog on September 11, 2021, 11:17:51 PM: Picture post attempt #10
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Post by: Romulus1297 on September 11, 2021, 11:21:18 PM: Perfect picture
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Post by: Caseknife on September 12, 2021, 07:43:54 AM: Did you autopsy the carcass? Suspect you would have found a canine puncture in the skull from an adult male cougar. They kill younger cats in their territory.
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Post by: nwhunter on September 12, 2021, 08:26:13 AM: Cool find but posting it on here if those cougar loving bios see it they may count it against the quota for this year...Plenty of cats down there for sure..
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Post by: highcountry_hunter on September 12, 2021, 08:48:02 AM: Quote from: nwhunter on September 12, 2021, 08:26:13 AM
Cool find but posting it on here if those cougar loving bios see it they may count it against the quota for this year...Plenty of cats down there for sure..

Hahaha I can see it now. “Blues mountain cougars are starving to death, end lion hunting now!”
Title: Re: Found a dead cougar
Post by: LDennis24 on September 12, 2021, 09:18:49 AM: As hot as it's been I'll bet that cougar is only a month old. And probably was killed by another cougar like was mentioned. If wolves killed it they would have eaten it. Wolves never waste anything...
Title: Re: Found a dead cougar
Post by: cem3434 on September 12, 2021, 09:30:25 AM: Quote from: LDennis24 on September 12, 2021, 09:18:49 AM
As hot as it's been I'll bet that cougar is only a month old. And probably was killed by another cougar like was mentioned. If wolves killed it they would have eaten it. Wolves never waste anything...
:chuckle: I see what you did there.
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Post by: LDennis24 on September 12, 2021, 10:33:26 AM: PM sent Meepdog
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Post by: powderbounder on September 13, 2021, 10:06:49 AM: May have been shot and never found.
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Post by: time2hunt on September 16, 2021, 08:10:42 AM: looks like a SSS deal where someone forgot to shovel.

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Post by: dilleytech on September 23, 2021, 11:32:50 AM: That looks a lot more recent then last winter. Probably shot and left
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Post by: pianoman9701 on September 23, 2021, 11:37:59 AM: I don't see a problem here. :tup: