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Title: cougars in duvall
Post by: jackelope on October 30, 2009, 12:16:26 PM: just got an email from my wife who got an email from her friend that there was 3 cougars seen in almost downtown Duvall this morning. 3rd and Stephens for those of you who know the town.
the police were called and they didn't see anything.
not sure where it went beyond that.

i suspect there will be several more than normal lost dog/cat signs hanging on telephone poles in duvall in the next few weeks.
Title: Re: cougars in duvall
Post by: Snowman on October 30, 2009, 12:24:01 PM: they have always come down into town this time of year. Grew up there. Why does it surprise that people who live there an in other areas of the foothills are surprise to see them in town. they used to live where all the yuppy houses are. Now they are in your back yards. There has always been a problem with cougs in the valley. The day after they banned dogs for them a guy in carnation shot 2 in his yard going after his wife an kids. The police there never have been able to catch up with them. Officer Sanders just hands out flyers like the rest of the officer there and it is no surprise to them.
Title: Re: cougars in duvall
Post by: backwoods_boy on October 30, 2009, 01:03:47 PM: :yike: I KNEW IT!!!
Title: Re: cougars in duvall
Post by: huntnphool on October 30, 2009, 01:11:04 PM: Opened this expecting to see some 40 somethings :chuckle:
Title: Re: cougars in duvall
Post by: jackelope on October 30, 2009, 01:11:36 PM: snowman is right(not sure about the yuppy house part. i sure don't have a yuppy house :) )...they've been there forever.
there was a female killed a few years ago in town and her cubs were orphaned. i think they are in some zoo back east somewhere now. every couple years now this happens. there's lots of woods and forest right on the edge of town...lots of bears, lots of cougars, lots of deer...hell there's deer on 3rd and in my neighborhood every day.

maybe i need to put up a treestand in my cul de sac.
Title: Re: cougars in duvall
Post by: jackelope on October 30, 2009, 01:12:03 PM: Quote from: huntnphool on October 30, 2009, 01:11:04 PM
Opened this expecting to see some 40 somethings :chuckle:

there's a limited supply of those in duvall, Rob.
Title: Re: cougars in duvall
Post by: Snowman on October 30, 2009, 01:13:30 PM: We used to see them all the time at cherry valley elm, just east of it where the house are now when I was a kid going to school there. For some reason they used to love the field just across from the school where the church is. Got some friends there that have problems with them every year around this time going after their horses. We had are horses almost became food a little while back just up behind the fair grounds in monroe. They also have problems with bears in between duvall an carnation every year.
Title: Re: cougars in duvall
Post by: Snowman on October 30, 2009, 01:15:37 PM: Up where the new high school was built an the yuppy housing devlopments are. Used to hunt that for deer when I was a kid. Been locked down numerouis times at the high school cause of cougars
Title: Re: cougars in duvall
Post by: jackelope on October 30, 2009, 01:56:51 PM: i live right behind the elementary school right across the crosswalk in the little culdesac there...lots of deer all the time, but no lions or bears.
Title: Re: cougars in duvall
Post by: carpsniperg2 on October 30, 2009, 02:01:22 PM: always bolder and bolder each year no fear of man anymore and the bark of a dog use to scare them cats now its a dinner bell :EAT:
Title: Re: cougars in duvall
Post by: backwoods_boy on October 30, 2009, 02:05:48 PM: Quote from: jackelope on October 30, 2009, 01:56:51 PM
i live right behind the elementary school right across the crosswalk in the little culdesac there...lots of deer all the time, but no lions or bears.

im sure you have driven past my parents place a million times.
what a small world.
just past the y at odell on your way to duvall on the left.
two pastures with driveway going down the middle with blue roofed batting cage/pole barn.
:hello:
Title: Re: cougars in duvall
Post by: saylean on October 30, 2009, 02:08:02 PM: Here kitty kitty....
Title: Re: cougars in duvall
Post by: Snowman on October 30, 2009, 02:37:20 PM: Lived up on odell an right in town. Lol small world! My family has been there since the dawn of time. Well backwoods boy we played baseball togehter been at the that place a few times hitting balls.
Title: Re: cougars in duvall
Post by: backwoods_boy on October 30, 2009, 02:52:32 PM: yup small world!
Title: Re: cougars in duvall
Post by: Whitenuckles on November 01, 2009, 12:38:39 PM: I also live in Duvall and have photos of lions crossing in my driveway. We also have a nieghborhood bear that terrorizes our garbage cans!
Title: Re: cougars in duvall
Post by: jackelope on November 01, 2009, 07:41:35 PM: whereabouts in duvall? in town or outside town?