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Fargin bastich Cougar got into our barn last night. Now normally a barn holds livestock etc. Well when your other half refers to your home as the Totally Useless Animal Sanctuary or Bev's Bleeding Heart Animal Farm, the livestock are actually pets with names.

If you have never seen a cougar attack, it is not something you want to. Luckily we had Abbott the goat in with Paris and Nicole the sheep. We figure that Abbott (the little ***hole that he is), reared up and butted the couger but good as it was attacking his girls.

Nicole has many bites to her head, Paris had been mauled severely and reqired an immediate emergency visit by the vet to sew her back up. Hopefully she'll pull through, otherwise she's heading out to the Greek's house. This was a big cat, paw prints are at least 4-5" making this cat about 130lbs or more. We never heard a thing, not a peep from the barn 200 feet away.

So anyone with a infrared sight and a highpowered rifle, I have a job for you to do.

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You what would really top this thread off? PICS!! Perhaps it's a sadisitc request, but boy would it be interesting.

"Fargin bastich" ....Umm, never heard that one before, must be norhtern slang.

Sorry to hear about those animals though, it's like a Disney fairy tale gone bad. 

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pics!....dwarren you're sick.  Rob, that's a huge cat.  And you'd better set that scope because I'm willing to bet she'll be back.

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Just like you Rob, I am also in the hunt for a 130 lb Cougar myself that will take care of my expenses and bad habbits. I got a highpower rifle, only problem is tracking down this cat.

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I have the cat, get your butt out here. He came back last night and we saw him for the first time. He is huge and dark brown in color. He was 35 feet away from the house this time, sneeking up on our rescue dog Squirts in his kennel. Good thing the kennel is 6' chain link with a sheetmetal roof. Once we hit him with our lights, he froze. After about 5 minutes he got up from his pounce crouch and turned and slinked away back down the path and into the woods. Sneaky little fargin bastich.

I had a total money shot on him, elevated up by 25 feet and about 35 feet away. No danger of a stray bullet going anywhere and nothing between me an him. Crap on a stick. Conservation officer showed up within 20 minutes, hit a scent trail and took off into the bush. After crashing around in the bush for an hour with no luck, they called it a night. Too bad, Bev has already cleared a spot on the wall for this Big Bad Putty Tat.

I had never seen one before but now seeing this one and how he moves, it will be much easier to spot. They have green eyes at night when you hit them with light. A 2,000,000 candlepower spotlight should make things much easier to see, same with all the new halogen floods going in this afternoon. You are mine cat, all mine, beyatch. FAK, if only I had a rifle or a 50 pound bow....grrrr.

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Fargin Bastiches!!!! LMFAO Johnny Dangerously LIVES!!

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Hey, since you're such an animal lover, why do want to kill this animal, round my parts, they (really mtn. lions) are endangered, like most wild animals.

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Here on Vancouver Island we have numberous distinctions that make this a highly desirable place to live. Part of this distinction is also having the highest population in North America of Cougars. It is also the quickest growing area of the province, meaning it is pushing more and more of the predatory animals into smaller and smaller areas fighting for less and less natural prey.

Once a animal like Mr. Big Bad Kitty has attacked and killed livestock, it is out of our hands as to tranq. and relocate a cat like this. Mr. Kitty has attacked and killed in our immediate area in the last week, we were the lucky ones (so it seems if you can call a mauling lucky). It is a short step for a cougar to jump from sheep to small child which there are numberous ones in the area. As a cougar is a stalker and opportunist, he will sit and wait in ambush in an area like ours where the woods go directly onto the road that two trucks have a hard time passing on. So it is easy pickings for a cougar if he makes the jump.

It seems as though this particular cat is one of two possibilities, a young cat that has just been booted out by mom and does not know any better and know what his natural prey should be (deer are abudant here, waaaaay too abundant, 3 roadkills on the way to work today). The other possibility is that it is a older injured cat, making it far more dangerous again. It would then go after anything it can sink it's teeth into. From the size of the paw prints and the cat not leaving the area after his dogs were released, the conservation officer thinks it is the latter. As much as I like animals and do not condone putting them down for many reasons, in this case it is far better to save livestock and possibly kids as compared to the life of one rogue cougar.

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forbidden wrote:

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It is also the quickest growing area of the province, meaning it is pushing more and more of the predatory animals into smaller and smaller areas fighting for less and less natural prey. 

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Absolutely, this being the problem for most endangered animals, but one must compromise. I can't say where to draw the line but I feel there should always be that option. And as you metnioned above about the exceedingly high number of deer, probably due to the decrease of the cougar pop. and their hunting grounds. It is such a fine balance that be thrown off very easily.

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We have miniature deer here and they are in abundance. It is not uncommon driving through any town on the island to come across them. Even in our city of 60,000 people, they inhabit every section of the city.

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Miniature deer, how miniature? I have seen miniature horses, but mini deer?? That is comical

Recently I had a juvenille deer catch its leg in a 5' cyclone fence in my back yard. It was dangling from its rear leg. I picked it up and freed its leg.  It was rather distrubing. I don't know that it made it.

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Yup, our deer are like way small as compared to deer found on the mainland. So we lost our ewe yesterday as her injuries were just too severe and she was suffering. Mr. Kitty did not make his appearance last night, no matter how long we looked down the barrel of the gun, better luck tonight perhaps. I should point out that we are only going to remove this cat by any of the legal means at our disposal.

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Can you send me the pelt when you dispose of it? It would make a nice throw, don't you think (minus the bullet holes)?

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Mr. Kitty did not make his guest appearance again last night, perhaps tonight he will. Too bad, we were all awaiting him eagerly with a nice rifle + high power scope, 2 x 500 watt halogen floods and a 2,000,000 candlepower pit lamp that will burn your retinas at 100 feet. We should easily be able to identify him and ensure a safe kill shot. I think my other half Bev wants his *** on the kitchen wall so that she can throw darts at the littel ***clown every morning when she's in a bad mood due to lack of coffee.

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Damn Rob, that's a big cat.  When they lose their fear of humans and start feeding on livestock, it's unfortunately time to get rid of it as it's found easy pickings and it's not likely to leave.  I wish you all the best of luck - and be safe, OK?

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Well, still no Mr. Kitty Cat. This is real scary as now it is haloween and small quick moving kids are an instant kill instict for a cougar. It's like this cat knows that we have a 12 gauge and a rifle with his name on it. He has not come around for about 4 days now. Scary stuff.....if he's not in our immediate area with people than know he is here, he is in someone else's area with people that do not know he is there.

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Mountain lions have about a 100 square mile territory, so maybe he's just hunting a different part of it now.  Back where he belongs maybe?

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Mr. Kitty was spotted across the highway from our backyard yesterday, this puts him within 500meters of our back door. I think I need some good ol' redneck hunting dogs and a perhaps a crossbow (as it is legal here).

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iv go a cupple of suggestions for you buddy. i have very extensive noleage on the hole stocking and geting to close for comefort thing with animales and other stuff. if this means enything to you i can sneak up on a todaly wild deer and rub on its leag and it still dosent know im there, it is all about how you move and act and even how you FEEL when you are sneaking up on them, i have even coult a deer gust to see if i could do it. it dident even know i was there till i grabed its leags and pined it. i let it go thowe. the resen that this cat is not showing up is because he can smell you, see you and he can sence you to. what you sould do is start a fire and have how ever is staying up to get him stand in front of it to mask there sent. you might think that the smell of fire will scare him away, no it wont animals are used to smelling it. it is something they smell every day. it will totaly mask your smell, you need to stand in front of it for a wiyal in order to get the total effect. and everybody that is going to be there has to do this(do not were deoderent or colone you dont have to smell good to kill something). cuse if he smells humans he will be werry very werry. and if he is despret enophe he will find a way around you to his pray. another thing you sould do is take a nylon socking and streach it over the front of the scope to get ride of the reflection that it gives off. and DONT make alot of noise he will hear this, they have incredible hearing, smell, and eye sight espesily eye sight cats have very very good eye sight do not move around in an expoesed area or enyware that is near a window or anyware that you think that he would be able to see you. and you say that he hasent bine seen during your stakeouts well you may think that but he is there i promese you that HE IS THERE YOU GUST DONT KNOW IT. what these cats do is sit for a long periaded of time gust to make sure that the coast is clear.
these cats ARENT STUPPED they have had there hole life to develope there hunting skills and knowes what he is doing when he is siting there wating for his chance to sneeke in there to do his job.
if you have any questions i mean any info about what to do or more extensive info on the subject.
PS: a hungry coger is a EXTREAMLY dangeres animal it WILL attack you if you arnt careful. this is a very serias subject. this is not a cut little kitty, this little kitty will cut you up bad and there is a good chance you would die if you arent smare or are in the rong place at the rong time.    

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Damn youngone, that is the most poorly written thing I believe I have ever read on these forums.  It is extremely difficult to read what you write, and to know if anything you are trying to share has any value.  While it won't help your atrocious grammar, please go HERE and download the Google toolbar.  It has a spelling checker for web based forums and at least it might help point out some of your errors.

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    Thanks DYohn im kind of haveing trouble with that. Ill see what it does for me. Ill have to go get foxfire first, then i can get that. I have seen it on the Apple site. So ill go there and download it. Thanks






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Could give Ted Nugent a call.... we was more than willing to come to Manitoba this summer to take care of a couple cougars. :-)

Gus
PS- I personally prefer my cougars in the bar.....

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