One of the dangers of logging

[lyle niemi]

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[redprospector]

That's a big kitty!

[gfadvm]

WOW!  That thing is huge!  Did you bag her with your cant hook?

[ncsawyer]

Nice Cat!  Do you hunt them with dogs up there?

[hunz]

I'm calling stuffed animal

[Percy]

I'm calling stuffed animal

Me too...Whats their number??? :D

[Chuck White]

Wow, now that's a cat, I'd be watching too if there was one of them anywhere near "close by"!

[cbla]

wow! must be hard trying to make a face notch thinking about that behind you!

[fishfighter]

Anymore to the story?

[justallan1]

Big darned kitty!
While out fencing a few years ago I came up to where the fence and a rock cropping came together and I go walking around the rock trying to find a way up the hill and find a dug-out probably 4x6' and full of soft dirt. In the dirt is a few cat tracks probably 4" across. Believe this, I took a good look around and got that piece of fencing done and got elsewhere.
After thinking on it a bit, the direction it was open to was out of the wind and weather, so the tracks could have been there awhile, but who knows.

[mesquite buckeye]

That is a large one.
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Our jaguars don't get that big.

[red oaks lumber]

just imagine the pile of dirt that cat scrapes up to cover it's pile  :D :D thats a very large cat

[5quarter]

Big cat indeed! must be a male. all I ever see around here are the smaller females. in fact, I don't think I've ever seen a male Mountain Lion.

[bandmiller2]

I recon puddy would put a lot of distance between himself and running chainsaws. Frank C.

[Magicman]

His chainsaw was purring like a kitten. 

[YellowHammer]

just imagine the pile of dirt that cat scrapes up to cover it's pile  :D :D thats a very large cat

I was thinking the same thing, except that it might use the sawdust pile for kitty litter. 
YH

[thecfarm]

The head looks huge on that!!

[redprospector]

Ya know, now that I think about it, the man in the picture if far more amazing than the cat.
I figure that cat has to weigh at least 400 to 500 lbs., and that fellow is holding it up in a bear hug. Simply amazing strength if you ask me.  ;)

[landscraper]

I figure that cat has to weigh at least 400 to 500 lbs., and that fellow is holding it up in a bear hug. Simply amazing strength if you ask me.  ;)

Do they get that big - 500 lbs?  I remember hearing the fact that a mountain lion could lift and carry an adult human corpse up a tree, and that was equivalent to their own body weight. 

[clww]

No they don't get that large. A 250 male would be enormous. The biggest kitty in the Americas is the jaguar.

[beenthere]

And a story/pic of another large cat... est. to be 160#

http://www.biggamehunt.net/blogs/bghjournal/huge-mountain-lion-photo-story-unfolds

[warina drive]

So let me get this correct,this beautiful animal was killed for what purpose.

[beenthere]

Depends on who you talk to, as to the "purpose".  The point is.. ? ?

There are legal hunting seasons for big cats in many places..

[Philngruvy]

So let me get this correct,this beautiful animal was killed for what purpose.

Amazingly enough, there are a lot of people that have the same attitude about cutting down trees. 

[warina drive]

After reading a bit on the subject specific to Alberta and their Mountain lion hunting program I became more informed.
I was under the impression that these cats where endangered/wrong.
I just think it is so beautiful and I am pretty sure we are giving them less room to live.
Not trying to start a debate just admiring nature

[Philngruvy]

Thanks for your tolerance.  I was also not trying to start a debate.  I think as we are all interested in the resource that this forum is centered on, I assume that we are all nature lovers and appreciate the gifts bestowed upon us.  I live in Western North Carolina high in the mountains near Mt.Mitchell, which is the tallest peak East of the Mississippi River.  There are reports of mountain lions in our community.  I would be furious if I heard of one being shot.  But this is not Alberta.

[Peter Drouin]

Do you think It would cost a lot to feed a pet like that? :D

[wyowood]

In the area that I live in northeast Wyoming we are getting over run with them, makes it tough to keep focused when you're in the woods cutting!

That's one of the reasons why I take my attack Corgis with me when I go out now!

[landscraper]

Do you think It would cost a lot to feed a pet like that? :D

No, not for the first little while at least.... it would be busy eating all your other pets first.

[Peter Drouin]

Do you think It would cost a lot to feed a pet like that? :D

No, not for the first little while at least.... it would be busy eating all your other pets first.

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[red]

Turns livestock into deadstock

[kensfarm]

I'd get too tired having to carry a rifle & chainsaw.  Are they attracted to the deer eating the tree tops?  I'd hate to be his target..

[Darrel]

This kitty weighed in at 140 lbs and was shot by the government trapper on our property up on the hill above the blueberries. This cat had been killing the neighbors sheep and leaving them lay.

[thecfarm]

I'm not scared of too many things dead,but that I feel I am. I have no idea what I would feel if I saw it in the woods.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I'm getting nervous. 

[landscraper]

I have no idea what I would feel if I saw it in the woods.

Hopefully not it's teeth on your neck   If I lived somewhere that overlapped the habitat of mountain lions I'd not go out in the woods unarmed.  Not looking for one, but in case one was looking for me. 

[tmarch]

I've lived with them for years, not much of a problem.  They are just a part of nature, but still the 3 S's will come into play if they want to play with my livestock.  Had a horse that one "played" with a bit a couple years ago, he is a big gelding and a smaller horse would have been cat food.

[Darrel]

There are still big cats in the area, heard one just the other night. There ain't nothin that gives me chills up and down my spine like hearing one of those big kitties catawalling!  You just can't get back to the house quick enough.  I've seen them and wasn't to frightened but hearing one unexpectedly in the dark is quite another thing. You can't see it and you have no idea what to expect.

[Peter Drouin]

I think It would be cool to see one in the yard. We have them in NH. But the fish & game says no. But they lie. :D :D :D :D

[Darrel]

I've seen their tracks in the yard but didn't see one there.  They tell me that mountain lions are an endangered species and I say BOLOGNA!

[gfadvm]

We have em here in NE Oklahoma.  My daughter and SIL watched one less than 100 yards from their house on the ranch near Morris, OK.  Right where my granddaughters ride their ponies!

[Peter Drouin]

I have no experience with them, But like all wild things it would run away from you.
I think. :D :D

[redprospector]

This kitty weighed in at 140 lbs and was shot by the government trapper on our property up on the hill above the blueberries. This cat had been killing the neighbors sheep and leaving them lay.

That's a nice kitty! And I can believe it weighs 140. However it's not near as big as the OP, or the one beenthere linked to, and it was supposed to be 160.
Maybe they just don't get big enough around here for me to appreciate the pictures, but I've seen a couple of 150 lb. cats, and they weren't anywhere near as big as the OP.
I don't know? Call me skeptical I guess.
Or maybe it was really a 250 lb. cat in the 1st picture being held up by a 5'4" 125 lb. man. I don't know???
Regardless, this won't be the first time I've been wrong, but I'm calling trick photography.  :D

[5quarter]

Mountain Lions are definitely not endangered. but they are very elusive. for the longest time, Fish and game said there were none in NE. They have recently conceded that there are a few in the state  :. A good rule of thumb: if you see one, assume there are at least 4 or 5 more living in the same general area. I live near a sheltered waterway that is used by every conceivable animal...including the big cats. I don't worry too much about them here as the food supply is plentiful.
As an aside, I saw a great documentary film on a Cougar and her cubs. The Female had just taken down a young deer and was getting ready to drag it off, when along comes a big male grizzly. The bear decides the deer is now his and takes a swipe or two at the cat. but instead of fleeing, she merely creeps backward about 10-15 feet and lays there. The grizzly slobbers all over the kill and proceeds to eat his fill. pausing only to snarl at the cat when she tries to creep up to steal a piece of meat. eventually, the bear does shove off. the cat eventually drags off what's left, but you had to feel bad for her. The only animal able to take her kill away within a 100 miles and there he was at just the right time.  :'(

[jcbrotz]

I think It would be cool to see one in the yard. We have them in NH. But the fish & game says no. But they lie. :D :D :D :D

I don't want to see them. Pa says they are not here but even though you see them and they are not here you can't shoot them because they are federally protected, Then they say the only one here are released pets. I asked the game warden if they were his pets that the state was releasing to reintroduce to it natural environment. He did not like that :D

[papow22]

 :D I thaught I taw a putty cat,We know over here in Hondo Alberta we have them like also.You just got to beware of them kitties  :D.....Did you get to keep it ,cause our fish cops just come and take them for themselves here,and we are not ALLOWED to keep them.

[papow22]

So let me get this correct,this beautiful animal was killed for what purpose.

THE PURPOSE IS TO PROTECT YOURSELF IF YOU ARE BEING HUNTED BY THEM,OR ANOTHER PURPOSE IS PROTECT YOUR GRAND KIDS,CAUE WOULD LIKE ONE THESE TO EAT YOUR KIDS OR YOUR LAP DOG FOR A NICE LITE SNACK

[lyle niemi]

If you're working in the bush where the cats are known to be and you don't want to be eatin by them, bring a helper with a bad leg

[red]

You don't have to be the Fastest

But you don't want to be the slowest