Gonna happen where I live, too - NW of Austin in the hill country at Lake Travis which is being squeezed from all directions by new home building.
We all see and hear them lately - last summer about 35 pets went missing in one month. Parks & Wildlife just blows it off... here in TX there is no bag limit on panthers: they just ask that you call in your sighting/kill location.
Last week my sister saw a lynx! That’s probably the one thing I haven’t stumbled across yet, besides a bear. She told a cop that pulled up and he gave her the ‘uhmmmm hmmmmm... crackhead’ look.
She saw either a Bobcat (lynx rufus) or maybe...a jaguarundi or ocelot.....even more rare ...a margay.
but 99.9% chance it was a Bobcat....or a former pet felis lynx maybe.
that said....lynx are now found futher south than ever before in mountain ranges.....Appalachia in the east and Colorado in the west...
“We all see and hear them lately - last summer about 35 pets went missing in one month. Parks & Wildlife just blows it off... here in TX there is no bag limit on panthers: they just ask that you call in your sighting/kill location.”
Do what cat hunters have done since man was able to hunt cats instead of being hunted by the cats - get a goat, stake it out in a proper area with no down range hazards, wait and shoot.
I think a night or two watching the goat would work well. Just watching my livestock, ya know.
Asking the usual officer about wildlife is a waste of time. ASking one of them to deal with a predator is also fruitless. Remember, when seconds count, a cop is only minutes away.
Know guns, know peace. No guns, no peace.
In closing, consider this:
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;-)When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.”