Comments on: Cougar

By: Pat Bumstead

Pat Bumstead — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 20:00:18 +0000

In reply to Barbara. You have got to be one of a very few people that have had a double wild cat sighting!!

By: Barbara

Barbara — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 16:22:31 +0000

They are pretty common out here in Oregon. My sister and I saw one midafternoon just outside Corvallis city limits. It was walking in her neighbor’s front yard. When we stopped to watch it from the road, it loped off into a row of junipers about 20 feet long to take cover. As it did, a bobcat ran out the other end of that row and across the main highway we had just turned off of! Double sighting!!
The cougar was a big male, easily 5 feet long, with a tail as least that long. Guessing 100-120 lbs? Maybe a little more?
I remember seeing a photo in the Seattle Times taken from a game camera on the aptly named Tiger Mountain near Issaquah. It showed 7 or 8 mountain lions in 1 frame! Too many to be a family IMO, and all appeared to be adults. My only theory was a female in estrus with a lot of suitors!

By: Pat Bumstead

Pat Bumstead — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 21:30:42 +0000

In reply to Helen Frieda Meier. Sadly, the governments of Alberta and BC have set a short hunting season for cougar. The population is big enough in both provinces to sustain a limited harvest, I'm told. We don't like it, and don't think it's acceptable either.

By: Helen Frieda Meier

Helen Frieda Meier — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 16:13:37 +0000

Are you aware that Mountain Lions are being hunted in Northern Alberta? There was a YouTube video about it. It broke my heart to see dogs chasing it up into a tree and then it was shot with bow and arrow. It didn’t have a chance

The owner of the video stated he and his friends hunted it for population control. I don’t think this is acceptable. It isn’t, in my opinion.

H. Meier

By: Pat Bumstead

Pat Bumstead — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 20:06:16 +0000

In reply to Dennis Mower.

All the maps we use on our site are from the IUCN Red Data List, which is supposed to be the number one authority on conservation of wild species. However, we have noticed many of the species maps do not show more recent confirmed sightings. For an always-updated cougar range map have a look at https://www.cougarnet.org/confirmations/. We will now be adding a link to the Cougar Network map on our cougar page, so thank you for pointing it out!

By: Dennis Mower

Dennis Mower — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:11:49 +0000

curious…I just took a look at the map showing the location of Mountain Lions on your fact sheet…..in your description of locations where these cats have been found…ie: Quebec and New Brunswick and I have info on a cat that was killed in Milford Connecticut and verified by DNA that the DEC of the state of New York stated was from cats in South Dakota….. would you be updating your map ? Is seems miss leading in regards to cats being seen and killed east of the Mississippi River.

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By: Pat Bumstead

Pat Bumstead — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 18:52:10 +0000

In reply to Dhananjaya Katju. That fact sheet was written many years ago so we'll have to dig up the reference for you. It might take a while to get to it so feel free to remind us via email at smallwildcats[at]gmail.com

By: Dhananjaya Katju

Dhananjaya Katju — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 00:24:16 +0000

if possible, pls provide references for this statement – “Christian missionaries in southern California found the Cougar to be a significant obstacle in the establishment of missions. Natives so respected the big cat that they refused to hunt it or protect livestock herds from its predations.”

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