When I was researching material for my book, “COUGAR!”, I found out that this animal needs to consume between 15 and twenty pounds of meat a day and they will take a deer every week and a half. Out here in Texas, it is well known that they will take calves, foals, goats, and sheep so why would the other state natural resources departments deny their well known natural behaviors?
BYW, my book is a purely fictional account of a government conspiracy to bring predatory animals back into the environment to reduce the wildlife population, but I do have some good info about the big cats on my website: wwbrock.com. :)