Posted on 08/08/2014 7:47:16 PM PDT by SolidRedState
So here's a story and you can tell me if I am bat s*** crazy or you can laugh or whatever.
My wife and I walk along a rural paved road in the evening about a half mile and turn around and come back. We have corn and bean fields on each side and nice wide ditches.
One evening about 2 weeks ago on a Monday we were walking back and noticed a dead deer in the ditch on the far side. At first we thought it must have been hut by a car. The strange thing was that it looked like it had its neck broke from the way it was laying and most of the hide was gone from its head. Its rib cage was exposed and a large hole was in its body cavity just ahead of the rib cage. We just figured varmints had been at it already. But realized it wasn't there the evening before and thought it strange it had been so devoured so quickly. So we figured we just must have not noticed it.
The next evening we went further than normal and stopped at the neighbors to drop off something he needed signed and discuss crops. We mentioned it to him and he thought it was odd also.
On our way back we were almost home and realized the deer had disappeared. This aroused our curiosity and we walked back to where we thought the seer should be and it wasn't there.
The next evening we took greater care to search the ditch on our way back to see if we could see signs of where it had been. No luck. We know we did not hallucinate this deer. We are not into drugs or alcohol or any other thing that give us visions.
A week later we were talking to our neighbor again and discussed this with him. He came to the same conclusion I had but my wife is still skeptical.
He and I decided we had never heard of coyotes leaving a kill and then coming back and dragging it off, especially one as large as a deer. This was a good size doe. They would pretty much have to work in concert and besides they usually don't dig out the chest cavity, they just start eating on it.
This morning on the way to work I saw a critter cross the road ahead of me and it was not a dog nor a coyote nor any other critter we are used to seeing. It was about 5 to 6 feet from snout to butt and a tail about as long as its body. It stood about 2 feet at the shoulders or a bit more or less.
Unfortunately it disappeared into the corn before I could get a really good look at it.
So I thought I would post up and see if anyone has an alternate explanation than the one my neighbor and I came up with.
Nice. You might be on to something. The faces confuse critters about which side is the front, and cats like to attack from behind.
I saw 2 in North Ga. near Lake Lanier. Husband said I was crazy, but come to find out there were many sightings in that time period.
SolidRedState Nebraska,
Mountain Lion, Florida Panther, same critter.
I live in S. East Florida about an hour north of W. Palm. And 20 miles west of the coast in the country.
We have one here I am lucky enough to see once in a while.
Magnificent creature but be wary as if it gets real hungry you are no match.
“Comments like this amaze me, we have hundreds of millions of cell phone capable of taking picture, trail camera’s, regular camera’s and to this day not one person has ever gotten a picture of a black Mountain Lion, they do not exist!”
My husband also was startled by the sight of a black panther on a rural road in Coastal NC. He saw it clearly, but as in many sightings in the wild, the whole thing happened too quickly to capture. This may not be an indigenous species, but the animal clearly existed in the wild.
Wild kitty inside your house??
I’m a cat person but that bobcat has a look in its eyes.....
If you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If you’re a bobcat, everything looks like prey, I would think.
Black mountain lion sightings are as old as the internet and are sure to show up on each and every lion thread. They usually end with a disgusted sounding statement that the local fish and game boys told them that none exist, but they know what they saw.
Mountain lion range covers North, Central and South America so you would think somebody in the past 500 years would have managed to shoot, trap, tree or run over a black mountain lion, but no, they are elusive critters. Lots of species have a melanistic phase, but not mountain lions.
My uncle has seen several big cats on his farms in the Loess Hills of northwestern Iowa.
If they range that far east, and east of the Missouri, you can be sure they’re everywhere in Nebraska.
You aren’t that far from the new airport in Panama City. When they were building it, one, or more, was seen by residents and security at River Camps, on the south side of Hwy. 388W.
The FWC denied they were panthers but they were.....probably disturbed by the construction crews.
Lions have killed several neighbor’s dogs, and ran a horse through a fence just down the mountain where I live. Horse sustained fatal injuries.
I ran into one about 10:00 pm when I was taking my puppy out to do it’s business. It was in the middle of my circular driveway, an area about two acres. My Lab was only about 6 months old at the time and I happened to be only 10 feet from her, I used to just stay on the front porch and watch her but this time I walked out with her. It was very dark and I heard something plop to the ground about 30 feet away, it was the lion coming out of a tree.
I only had a worthless little flashlight with me, led type with low battery, and I called the puppy to my side while fishing around in my pocket for the light. I shined it in the direction of the plopping sound and my heart nearly stopped. There, at the very limit of my feeble beam of light, was the lion crouched down at the base of a tree. Every hair on my body was at attention. I shouted at the big cat, puffed my jacket out to make me look bigger, and backed my way back to the house. I was about 50 yards from the front door and it was a long and scary walk.
I turn on the perimeter flood lights now, and keep the dog on a leash at night. We stay within the lights now. I think the lion had been out there several times before, just waiting for the chance to snatch my dog.
Oh, and I carry now too. We have wolves around as well and in Montana you just never know.
You should be packing. And turn around occasionally on your walks. Cats love to sneak up on you.
Best Post of the Day.
Don’t go anywhere without carrying!
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/03/23/bighorn-sheep-conservation-arizona-mountain-lion-catalina/
Fish and Game then killed a coupe of mountain lions, which seems a bit unfair after they imported food for them.
My God, what a handsome creature.
Mountain lions are gold yellow.
Jaguars in Sonora are so black that you cannot see the spots.
And panthers in the southeast are black.
Furthermore, I am the last person on the planet to own a cell phone (no pictures) - plus not the only person to see panthers in that area.
there are black panthers from Florida to NC
they are so elusive that it is an honor to see one in the wild
nice cat pictures
Speaking with more friends and neighbors this evening, they say I am not the first to see a mountain lion in the area and the others were looked at skeptically also, even though they were otherwise reputable. Everyone is taking this seriously however.
One was only a mile from us at the Platte River bridge and another was outside a cabin about 2 miles away or less and had track evidence. Another was a bit further North, with pictures and the Game and Parks still wouldn’t take it seriously. So no matter what G&P says they really don’t take all photo and track evidence. Only if one of theirs actually has the evidence.
But, yeah, I have already started carrying on our walks and will be even more diligent especially around dusk. Also won’t go out around the farm after dark unarmed either.
I hear they love to be hand fed, Tuna.
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