Cougar tries to get inside house (home invasion) - see the pictures

Richard Zickefoose ^ | March 1, 2006 | Mini-14

[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.

[MotleyGirl70]

Big kitty ping.

[FreedomPoster]

I think there's a whole series of that overgrown cat vs. *mule* out there. I've seen that one before, and there are more.

[FreedomPoster]

And all the pics are on snopes, and apparently it was already dead. Which makes sense, now that I think about it.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/mulelion.asp

[ElisabethInCincy]

And i thought living in ohio and seeing a "WOLF SPIDER" On steroids was scary..... hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[R. Scott]

Ah, the kitty was just looking to have its ears scratched and belly rubbed.
Would a picture of an Animal Rights Activist doing the above be a bit too graphic?

[R. Scott]

The cougar is extremely agile and has great jumping power and may leap from the ground up to a height of 18 feet into a tree. It is a good swimmer but prefers not to enter the water. Sight is its most acute sense with a good sense of hearing, but is thought to have a poorly developed sense of smell.
Size and Appearance: The cougar is the largest cat in the genus "felis", and is comparable in size as the leopard. They vary in length from 59 – 108 inches with a tail length of 21 – 36 inches, and height from 23 – 28 inches at the shoulder. Weight can vary greatly, between 75 and 250 pounds. They have a long body with a small head, short face, and a long neck and tail. They are powerfully built, and the hind legs are larger than the front. The ears are small, short and rounded.

The above from Big Cat Rescue.

I doubt I would move if I otherwise liked where I was – but I would carry at all times (like now) and be alert (also like now). It appears the mean adult weight would be over 160 pounds. Even the biggest, meanest Rottweiler would come in second best.

[HairOfTheDog]

Remarkable sight! Remarkable pictures! Thanks for sharing!

[GladesGuru]

Thanks to the animal rights whackos, and their close ties to all too many MediaPersons, the populace in SW Florida is more than a bit cowed by the sheer political might of GangGreen.

For example, a couguar tried to get in through a screen door not very far from the trail lakes campground where I videotaped the first cat to be removed for attacking domestic animals. But nobody will talk about it on record. GangGreen (an editor in this case) might be offended.

My tape of the State's radio collared beast being its bestial self can be seen at www.evergladesinstitute.org.

After viewing the attack, ask yourself what kind of a sadistic, psychotic, Libroid could ask that any human be subjected to ANY possibility of such an attack.

But the Animal Rights bunch does this every day. So does the nice Game Commission Person in your neighborhood. In fact, your tax dollars are hard at work trying to "reintroduce" dangerous predators in your home state.

Meanwhile, back in the Swamp of Socialism, another cat took up the nasty predatory behavior that forced removal of the first one. Such behavior is the nature of such cats and is why our ancestors shot them whenever they were a problem.

I will be discussing this with the Game Commission this week and will post the results for you. Don't hold your breath expecting any positive results, we are talking FloriDUH AgencyPersons here, after all.

[Inyo-Mono]

Bigfoot Sound Recordings

[phantomworker]

LOL! I was just thinking of that one!

Go Dawgs!

[moondoggie]

We see alot of cougars up here. The one pictured is obvious a young cougar.

He hasn't lost his fear of man because he's not old enough to have learned it yet.

He was looking at his reflection and that's all.

[MarkL]

Check out those fangs--he looks hungry!

Actually, that might not be a snarl, but a "grimace." I saw something on Animal Planet a few years ago that cats do that to get a better sense of smell.

Mark

[MotleyGirl70]

You're right--male cats in the wild get that "grimace" when they smell the secretion of pheromones from the females. It cues the males on how much in heat she is.

I love the "big cat" programs on Animal Planet.

[PoorMuttly]

"Wifes says to let the cat in and ya go to back door and see this critter...........do ya ?"

Highlights the difference between a request and an order.

But on the other hand........good way to blamelessly (we're stupid brutes, y' know) see the back of the mother-in-law for a long, long time...like until you move...which of course, you don't! Why leave such a great place?!!

[R. Scott]

I met a lot of New England Yankees living in Florida when I would pass through – and that was 20 years ago. What works in Boston or Dartmouth doesn’t necessarily work everywhere else. I wonder what would happen if big cats, wolves, bears, fox etc. were reintroduced up there.
No, they would probably die - nothing to eat but Yankee Liberals.

[GladesGuru]

That's not what the man who took the photo said. Perhaps you might want to reexamine your premise that the cat you saw was innocuous.

The life you save might be your own.

;-)

[united1000]

Life of Pi is wonderful.

 

I read it over Christmas, really liked it as well. 

[moondoggie]

Yes, I saw what the homeowner said and thought it was ridiculous.

Haven't you ever heard of a deer going through somebody's picture window? Do you think it's doing that because it wants to go in some poor guy's house? No...it thinks the reflection is another deer.

That cougar was outside a patio door looking at his reflection.

Trust me:-)

[GladesGuru]

Having talked to the man who shot the pictures, I have no other choice than to say that you are not correct in your position. If nothing else, the snarling cat shot should have convinced you to reassess your premise.

The man who lived with the cat knew its behavioral history. Given the choice of accepting the description of what happened from the person on the scene, or someone with neither knowledge or first hand experience, the choice is, to me quite clear.

I do, however, have a question for you. Knowing that the photographer had the on site experience with this predator, why the need to attempt to convince others that a predator known to regularly attack people was simply admiring it's reflection?

Especially since the reflection from a door is much weaker than from a mirror - and the photo is through a glass door.

PS The light source is behind the glass on the side of the photographer, not the cat. For the cat to have seen a reasonable "mirror" image the cat would have had to be more brightly lit than the glass on the other side from the cat.

Such was not the case. Your "mirror" premise fails on both physics/optics and biological/behavioral grounds.

[Serb5150]

Lovely animal, but pretty much the last thing I'd ever want to see on my back porch.

Imagine the size of the litterbox.