Mountain lion at Dale. What a cool Dale trip!

[RICHYD4U]

Didn't know that there were cougars in KY...cool. We have them all over the place out west. I've come across several, always gets your heart pumping, lol!

-Rich

[MsgMills]

Didn't know that there were cougars in KY...cool. We have them all over the place out west. I've come across several, always gets your heart pumping, lol!

-Rich

man i've seen several hanging around 4Th Street Live as well......lol

[kygorski]

Naw, was a bob cat. I lived in that area, the property we lived on was all hill and holler, I found several caves that were capable of supporting such an animal, and loved treking through the woods, never saw any tracks of anything larger than a bob cat. I could walk out our back door, and not see a house for almost two miles in one area. We had coyotes come as close as twnty yards from the house. Were we remote? 700 ft of water line, same for power. Deer, turkeys, grouse,quail,possum, and racoons. We loved it, most folks thought we were sort of tetched, but living in the city made both of us love the seclusion. Never locked the doors,even forgot to take the keys out of the car once when we left for the winter.

[mhall]

Bobcat for sure but extremely cool video and very rare to get that close to one without spooking it. Thanks for the video, very cool indeed.

[sglass]

I got within 10 yards of a bobcat ground hunting deer in Morgan Co. Scared the brown down my leg so I pulled the hammer back and it froze paw up staring at me. She stared at me for about 5 seconds (was like 5 years) then bolted back down the creek. I have seen another 1 in the same area this time in a tree stand. Cool video and very rare to get that close to 1!!

[Olgrey]

Two years ago my friend and I launched my boat at the Cumberland River ramp in Burkesville and ran up river. We floated back down and fished the bank as we came back down. We were about 20 or 30 feet off the bank casting and suddenly there was a bobcat going up river along the waters edge. I was too surprised to get a picture if I had a camera. No doubt about what it was and it did not appear concerned about us floating closely by on the water. We quit fishing and watched it until it went out of sight. It certainly helped make our day.

[Fntsyfbgod]

Looks like a Chupacabra to me.

[mhall]

Looks like a Chupacabra to me.

It's the Gonja..

[stratosjoe]

Cougar Shot in Chicago; Was 1,000 Miles From Home?Dan Morrison
for National Geographic News

April 17, 2008
A wayward cougar killed Monday on the streets of Chicago was probably hunting for a mate on the wrong side of town, experts said.

The two-year-old male may have quested more than 1,000 miles (1,610 kilometers) from the Black Hills of western South Dakota only to die in a hail of police gunfire after it was cornered in an alleyway.




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Other experts think it's more likely the cougar—also known as a mountain lion or a puma—was a pet that had escaped its owner or been released to fend for itself.

"A mountain lion walking right into the city of Chicago makes about as much sense as you and me walking into a den of rattlesnakes," said Alan Rabinowitz, president of the Panthera Foundation, a conservation group.

"Behaviorally, it makes no sense for a big wild cat."

Increasing Encounters

No matter where the cat came from, Chicago police said they had no choice but to gun down the cougar after it appeared in the city's Roscoe Village neighborhood, and many wildlife officials agreed.

"It's a public safety issue," said John Kanta, a wildlife officer at the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and Parks. "The cougar was real close to a grade school."

Critics note that residents near where the cougar was shot had been reporting sightings of a big cat in their midst for weeks before the incident.

Local authorities could have been better prepared with tranquilizer guns and trained animal-control personnel, they say.

"In our state this would never have happened," said Sara Carlson of the Wyoming-based Cougar Fund. "That cougar was in the wrong place at the wrong time."

The Chicago incident occurred at a time when development in Western states has increased the chances of humans and cougars crossing paths.


makes you wonder though don't it

[usmc_0311_hunter]

man i've seen several hanging around 4Th Street Live as well......lol

hell yea

[MagikSmallie]

Didn't know that there were cougars in KY...cool. We have them all over the place out west. I've come across several, always gets your heart pumping, lol!

-Rich

According to KDFW there are no cougars in KY. There have been sightings but nothing confirmed. I'm sure that years past there used to be a population, and I don't doubt there may be a few individual big cats. But as of now the KDFW does not recognize cougars in KY.

[mybentrod]

According to KDFW there are no cougars in KY. There have been sightings but nothing confirmed. I'm sure that years past there used to be a population, and I don't doubt there may be a few individual big cats. But as of now the KDFW does not recognize cougars in KY.

I agree that KDFW doesn't recognize cougars in Ky, but I recognized the smell of the load I loafed in my pants when it first popped down onto the bank. I saw it real good for about 30 seconds before...funny....I thought of everyone on this board would like to see what was going on. It had a VERY tan mono tone body. The shear size of it is the biggest reason I question Bobcat. The Mt Lion sightings I saw online tells me also bobcat, but my mind remembers what popped down and it had a real dark mouth and a swooshing side to side tail that went to the ground behind it. I don't claim to know as I have never been close to either, but I do know either way, as soon as I saw it, in an instant, I thought of Fishin.com. Lol

Everyone has their opinion, as I expected.