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.
