Posted on 08/08/2014 7:47:16 PM PDT by SolidRedState
Obviously it wasn’t a mountain lion. That’s just stupid. It was a bigfoot. He put the deer over his shoulder and walked off with it.
They’re pretty much everywhere in North America.
I’m assuming you’re in North America. :-)
I probably would not be taking walks down that road without carrying. Especially, at dusk. Better safe than sorry.
To be sure, go out in the cornfield holding a piece of raw meat and cry “her kitty, kitty, kitty” and take pictures if anything happens.
My first thought as well. Which SolidRedState are you in? Makes a difference. :)
Sounds like you have a big cat in your area. My sister in law has a summer house in Montana in a rural area. She has a mountain lion come through her property occasionally. the game warden told her that they will range in a 70 mile area so she doesn’t see it often.
The only live mountain lion I have ever seen was during a deer hunting trip in Sonora Mexico. The cat crossed the road very fast and it was kind of crouching down close to the ground so it was a little confusing trying to figure out what I had just seen. It was a long low tan streak!
My neighbor caught a glimpse of a long tailed cat about 3 months ago in northern Henderson county (NC). 2 days later he saw it run up a bank. He has a 130 lb Burneese mountain dog and said the cat was larger than his dog. I photoed tracks in my freshly tilled garden that week that measured more than 3 and 1/2 inches long. They were cat prints. BTW my neighbor has my complete trust.
I saw a news item of a confirmed mountain lion sighting near Alliance, Nebraska. Is that anywhere near you?
Sure sounds like a cougar from your description. Probably not quite as long bodied as you describe though. They just look long. I’ve seen a few around here and had one tear up my horse a few years back. The horse recovered.
They can drag a deer carcass even though they are not very large cats (100 lbs or so)
I came here from New Mexico... once we had a drought there and a Mountain Lion came into town in nearby El Paso looking for water and was at a local car wash drinking from the puddles...caused quite a stir :-)
H and H car wash in El Paso
I don’t know where you are located, but I can tell you that in mid-Missouri there were reports of a mountain lion last year. Never had any around here before in my memory.
I would say it’s a big cat too. They do drag their kill off and usually cover it so they can come back to it later.
Nebraska. About dead center. We have had a cat in a nearby city have to be put down as it was wandering around in broad daylight near a school.
I have a short-barreled Smith 686 on my belt on the property and especially after dark. I'll be perfectly happy if it stays in the holster. If not, I'll be perfectly happy it's there.
If you keep walking this road, you had better get some rear view mirrors. These big cats are famous for attacking from behind. Most human victims never see it coming.
Oh, a cop eventually showed up at the H n H car wash and had to shoot the big cat.
Many people criticized the cop but I think he had to do it to protect the public.
Where in Nebraska are you?
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