Walking into the back porch through a fenced area - 1.
Walking into the back porch through a fenced area - 2.
On the back porch and showing its fangs.
Peering into the house through the glass door.
Posted on 03/11/2006 11:28:31 AM PST by Mini-14
A friend of mine took these pictures of a cougar. He lives right outside of Yellowstone, and the cougar apparently wanted to get inside of his house.
Walking into the back porch through a fenced area - 1.
Walking into the back porch through a fenced area - 2.
On the back porch and showing its fangs.
Peering into the house through the glass door.
....and in reply to post #163:
MUTTLY eat cougars!
(they also make wonderful pajamas...with feet!)
I've seen your homepage... It would be a shame if you did, and you were never able to allow the little children or cat to go out on your deck again, without someone with a gun there to keep the big kitty away.
I love cats myself, and yes, that's a beautiful animal. But they're best to observe from a safe distance. It's nothing that the homeowner should be surprised at: If you build a house adjacent to a national park where hunting is banned, don't be surprised by the wildlife that turns up at your front door, and don't be surprised if you're seen by some as "prey."
Mark
Wifes says to let the cat in and ya go to back door and see this critter...........do ya ?
--- Ogden Nash
Have you read the book "The beast in the garden" ?
I did...and seeing this makes me say WOW...MOVE!!!
:) My favorite poet.
lainie wrote: "Are cougars and mountain lions the same? Since we go camping fairly regularly, I've read about them..and everything I've ever seen said mountain lions are terribly afraid of people. It's rare to even see one in the wild. And this one's standing at the house like that? There were even several shots taken with a flash and it didn't run away! wow.
That guy needs a loaded rifle on hand at all times."
Yes, cougars, mountains lions and pumas are all the same animal.
Several years ago a Park Ranger told me that there were three confirmed mountain lions in Ventura County. He said that you could be standing a few feet away from one hiding in tall grasses or shrubs and not know that it's there. He said that their range is 100 miles and that they will go where ever there is food.
It was startling hearing that a cougar could be so close and remain undetected so I asked the Park Ranger if mountain lions posed less danger than African lions.
He said that a mountain lion can clear a 7 foot fence carrying a 140 pound deer in its mouth.
Do you recall hearing about the bicyclist who was attacked by a mountain lion while she was biking in an Orange County park a few years ago? Later while searching for the mountain lion, people came across the body of a man who had been killed and partially covered up earlier by the same mountain lion.
A park ranger in a park near Santa Clarita told me to carry a large stick while hiking because several different groups of hikers reported encounters with what the park ranger speculated was probably just one female mountain lion.
There are also signs in Canyon Country which warn of mountain lions in the area.
You do have to admit there is no better college logo.
What kind of animal (upper midwest, nightime) makes a sound like a police siren? I mean so much like a police siren that the first time I heard them moving up from across the field, I thought I was hearing a bunch of emergency vehicles off in the distance. It was uncanny.
Since that first incident a few years ago, I hear them off and on at night. Sets my dog off like mad, drive him crazy (Rottie, is inside). He will bark like I've never heard him bark at anything -- and, they can apparently hear him, from inside the house (him) and across the rield (them), so they must have fairly good hearing, whatever they are. When he starts barking, they stop "sirening".
A relative who grew up here had never heard anything like it before, it scared the crap out of him. Most people I describe this to, will give a knowing nod of the head, and say something like, "Coyotes, yup, coyotes, no doubt about it", but, they don't sound like any coyotes that I've ever heard -- nor did they sound like coyotes to my relative who spent his life growing up in this rural area.
LOL I was thinking the exact same thing!
Oh, I dunno 'bout that. I have one that thinks he's a watchdog (even to the point that he will swat the Rottie in the nose if he things the Rottie (who loves all the cats) is acting out of line toward my wife (by jumping in her face to try to lick it), and he's the most timid cat I've got -- and I've got another that thinks he's a babysitter. (If the baby is crying, or getting his diaper changed, the cat will visibly fret, distraught, almost to the point of doing the "get Timmy from the well, Mama!" stage if my wife does not react fast enough to suit his idea of proper care for the baby, LOL!)
I've seen other cases of some of our cats exhibiting "protective" behavior, but those two are pretty obvious about it. If they've got "cougar" on the inside, they're saving it for something they consider way out of place in our "den".
When it's entering your house??? (Yikes!)
Aye... the most foul tempered mule yew aver laid eyes on! (Couldn't resist)
Needless to say I had a hard time falling back asleep!
Cougar: "Where's a Holy Hand Grenade when you need one?"
Leni
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I know I was just kidding. The only thing on my deck here in NEPA mountains are the opossums that come to eat the cat food at night. Although there have been Redfox sightings and Coyotes, but I have never seen that.
Check out those fangs--he looks hungry!
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