Cougar Attack

Just read in the Atkinson Graphic about a lion that had been killed Northeast of Ainsworth, Nebraska.
That would be along the same river as the other one that my friend had collared in Utah, in 1998.
There has been talk about animal corrordors that go across the U.S. One of those sweeps across northern Neb. Then East.
Sounds as though the cat population is becoming established in the area.
They will soon need a season when it is established that cats are killing the livestock in the area. I wonder how many years it will be.

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The deer hunters now leave game cameras in the woods looking to find the big bucks .the bears are plentiful one broke into a neabors smoke house damageing his food supply .not a hobby smoker but awhole hog .colts and yearling steers not to mention big meat goats taken by cougars more and more regularly .one had a tracking collar on it released here in the wilds of virginia , prably dencely populated compaired to idaho; making it even more dangerious by our goverment taxing us to no end is'nt enough they figger we should lose our livestock to support there projects.

There was one a couple of years back that made it from The Black Hills in SD to Connecticut where it got hit by a car. There had been sightings of the cat along the whole route of travel. Apparently they were able to identify it as the same cat by DNA.

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Wonder if that's the one that was spotted here in Indiana a few times. It attacked a horse here. The owners heard the fuss and managed to scare it off and thankfully, the only damage was to the blanket the horse was wearing. DNR told them there were no cougars in IN, they said there's at least one. Couple of days later someone got a picture of it eating a roadkill deer along 37. DNR then told them while it's against the law in IN to kill cougars if they are attacking your livestock you can shoot them.

We have all kinds of wild animals around here. We have a bobcat family that lives in the hollow right across the street from us. We never see them except in the spring when the kits are still very young and mom is training them.
We have brown bears all the time, they are even in town. We just try and avoid them as much as possible.
We have bald eagles that take a lot of small game, like chickens. I have never seen a mountain lion around, but it wouldnt surprise me.
Deer are very plentiful and with a food source close I would expect the preditores.
Alice in Virginia

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And don't forget the coyotes !! They are the real problem in these parts (extreme NE GA) !!

They found prints and scat, but no cat (big suprise) so as of now, it's not "confirmed" as a cougar attack. Officials really grind my oats, ya know?

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Here in Oregon cougar attacks on horses are not uncommon. One boarding stable a quarter mile from a big box Walmart in the Rogue Valley had two horses attacked. You don't often see them. They come in at night and the next day your horse is a bloody mess. I have heard that cat chops are delicious. Now we have to worry about the wolf packs that have migrated into central Oregon from Idaho and Montana. Lone wolf OR7 has ranged well down into California and was seen playing with coyotes. Won't that be a nice hybred? A super wolfyote.

I'm thinking you mean Black Bears. Brown bears are grizzlies. If you have them in Virginia, something has gone seriously wrong.

Just an FYI friends of mine host Living Outdoors and their trail cams have spotted several cougars across the state

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I'm in southeast Texas and my neighbors have reported sightings on several occasions. A friend of mine just told me about watching a cougar play in her pasture for twenty minutes or so before he went on. She said he was jumping and rolling around like a young kitten. I sold an Alpine goat in milk to another friend about five miles up the road and the goat was attacked by a mountain lion two weeks later. We were able to nurse the goat back to health, thankfully. I would be surprised if they came onto my farm because of our dogs including our LGD. I think dogs make them nervous but I guess you never know. It could happen if they were hungry enough. I would also think that they would try and take something smaller than a horse. That's just crazy. I wouldn't have imagined it. I guess I'm glad I keep my horses up at night. This is a good heads up for horse owners.

Mia in Texas

its sort of funny weve had mt lion for years in ouchitas and ozark mts game and fish say no they are pets turned out. mo and ok both reconize they have cats since they are ot reconized they are a nonanimal