[muleskinner2]

As I was feeding the horses and goats this evening, one of the horses threw her head up and began running in a circle nickering, with her ears and eyes focused on something in the trees outside the fence line. My Blue Heeler who was following me around while I fed, suddenly ran toward the fence line barking her head off. I walked over and looked but never saw anything. I was carrying a pistol, but the hair stood up on the back of my neck and something told me not to walk into the trees.

I don't have any idea what they saw, but I think I will start carrying a rifle on the tractor.

 

[painterswife]

The horses always know. They are better than the dogs in alerting us that something is in the trees.

 

[Riverdale]

Bigfoot

 

[muleskinner2]

Bigfoot

Could be. Bigfoot saw me once, but no one believed him.

 

[Paumon]

Cougar.

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[Kiamichi Kid]

Cougar.

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Probably so.

 

[Redlands Okie]

Might have been something they smelled or heard from a distance instead of seen. It’s amazing how much more horses and dogs can sense than us humans.

 

[muleskinner2]

Cougar.

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Cougar was my first thought. But going into the trees looking for a cougar is foolish, and a waste of time.

 

[Big_Al]

Luckily the only things in our woods are fox, armadillos, rattlesnakes, coyotes, deer, racoons, possums, black bear.
We are too high and dry for gators.

 

[HomeCreek]

Bigfoot

Nope my ex wife was at a archery tournament with my wife and grandson on this day

 

[HomeCreek]

The last time this happened at my place I later found pics of a trespasser on one of the dozen game cameras around here. Ive since converted to the game cameras that send pics as soon as it takes them to my cell.

 

[TripleD]

If it bleeds you can kill it!!!

 

[oldasrocks]

Cougar was my first thought. But going into the trees looking for a cougar is foolish, and a waste of time.

Time to be carrying a rifle with a Thermal scope on it.

 

[wdcutrsdaughter]

eeeeeeee be careful out there

 

[campbellmr999]

i saw a cougar last year making his way through the brush by the pond.
He moved through the thick brush without moving a single limb of brush.

 

[painterswife]

We have cougars crossing the property all the time. The only time we had a problem was when one had a leg hold trap that attacked our dogs.

 

[fishhead]

We have cougars crossing the property all the time. The only time we had a problem was when one had a leg hold trap that attacked our dogs.

Did it have the trap on it's foot? Your game and fish should have been able to live trap it and remove the trap.

 

[painterswife]

Did it have the trap on it's foot? Your game and fish should have been able to live trap it and remove the trap.

Yes, it had a trap on its foot. It was starving. The Game and Fish was called as was my friend a local guide and his dogs. It was shot in the end because it was too far gone. My husband actually wrestled my dog away from it. Not something he could have survived if it was a healthy cat. It would not have made it if the trap was removed because of its condition and it being winter.

 

[fishhead]

That's too bad.

 

[painterswife]

That's too bad.

It was. As I said the neighbors and us see cougars a few times a year going through the pasture or coming up from the lake. We have no problems unless something like this happens to them.