Posted on 06/26/2009 8:14:28 PM PDT by Chet 99
Friday, June 26, 2009
Weeks after a reported lion sighting in north Georgia, a Jackson County woman says her horse was killed by a big cat.
JoAnn Hitman told the Web site accessnorthga.com that she found the horse Thursday morning on her property near the Hall County line.
She called her veterinarian, and “he found evidence of where this cat that must have weighed 300 pounds came in and got on the horse’s back and brought the horse down,” she told the Web site.
She said several neighbors also believe a big cat is on the prowl.
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Last winter there was a horse killed by what was suspected to be a cougar, only 30 miles from my farm and my horses. This happened in south central WI. A second horse in that herd was wounded but lived. This happened in rural Watertown, WI.
I didn’t realize a cougar could take down a full grown horse. Any chance the cat might actually be a jaguar? There are supposedly still a few left in the wild in the US.
I live in North GA. and I always go armed whenever I am in the mountains.
South Georgia is where you really have the boondocks.
Yes, only in some very very remote parts of New Mexico, I believe. Not in Georgia!
I hope you’re not leaving your horses outside after dark anymore. Wouldn’t cross my mind to leave mine out at night, due to concerns about theft as well as cats, vandals, perverts, and some psycho who is going around our town cutting off horses’ tails (the hair, not the actual tail bone, so it’s ugly but not painful).
Mountain lions can reach 300 lbs, very rare but does happen, normal male reaches about 150 lbs.
Nope, I always put them in their fabulous stalls at night all year around. Very few horse owners do that around here. Mine get the royal treatment. Big pastures by day, big stalls at night. The barn is even screened in so they have no mosquitos or bugs bother them while they sleep on beds of straw. I wish I had it so easy!
Hey I saw the biggest horse fly ever the other day. Big as my thumb and black with white markings. I swatted him off Jack’s shoulder and got the blood sucker good. It was a blood bath when I squished him. He was the 747 of horse flies. My farrier said it might have been a Buffalo fly, never heard of that before. It was huge ( I mean “hugh”) and it was a serious (series) fly , and I was stunned (stuned) at his size and I should have got a beeber to measure him. He was big and slow enough for me to get him good. Happy Trails!
There are supposedly still a few left in the wild in the US Yes, only in some very very remote parts of New Mexico, I believe. Not in Georgia! There are supposedly still a few left in the wild in the US Yes, only in some very very remote parts of New Mexico, I believe. Not in Georgia!
We have Jaguars in Arizona too. In the Peloncillo and Chiracahua mountains in particular. But I doubt that they would be in Georgia.
So why didn't she just whack the mook? Ah, fuggedaboutit!
Be careful out there!
The cat may have been contemptible, but I doubt it was insignificant.
CCPC “sipk” strikes again. :-)
That’s a pretty small horse, and with a ratty tail to boot. ;-D
Unless [GASP!] this cat is 40 feet tall!
I saw a video on Youtube once where a Cougar came upon some campers out West somewhere and their pack mule attacked it and stomped it to death. The whole incident was caught on tape!
300 pounds? Does a lion even weigh that?
Great pic.
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