Author Topic: Another couger sighting , this time in MY home town (Read 1128 times)

Dan Mich Trapper · « **on:** May 28, 2004, 01:11:52 AM »

The fella who owns the store in our small town says he saw a couger cross the road in front of him Wed. right durring the day . I aint talked to him yet but the location was nothing but woods and some swamp , guess it could've happened .

Mallard · « **Reply #1 on:** May 28, 2004, 01:29:35 AM »

Hey Dan, did John get that woodstove pipe fixed in the store? I think he's breathing fumes again.. :coffee: ...lol.

Dave Lyons · « **Reply #2 on:** May 28, 2004, 04:14:58 AM »

Dan,

I say lets the three of us (Bill, Myself, and you) go hunt this thing down and get a real good look.

Sounds like fun to me :-D

Dave

Bogmaster · « **Reply #3 on:** May 28, 2004, 06:21:49 AM »

Guys,get used to the reports.More and more cougar are showing up in MN.,all the time.
First one I saw ,was about 15 years ago.Lot of sightings in northern MN. where I trap.I found fresh tracks of an adult and young one,just off a beaver dam I was trapping.
Tom

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #4 on:** May 28, 2004, 03:31:03 PM »

I've personally seen two cougars in the last ten years. A study by the National Wildlife Federation in conjunction with Michigan State University concluded from a study that a number of cougars live in the U. P. and the Northern lower peninsulaat and at least eight cougars live at Seul Choix Point which is about ten miles from where I live. Reputable people report seeing them all the time. Ace

RdFx · « **Reply #5 on:** May 29, 2004, 06:31:19 PM »

Fella told me about a cougar killed by a car in Amberg Wi which is just below Michigan border near Menominee. Could have been one of those MICHIGAN cougars :wink:

Dan Mich Trapper · « **Reply #6 on:** May 30, 2004, 01:10:10 PM »

Sounds like fun Dave . My Dad told me a guy he wqorks with saw one 15 to 20 south of us . I hear they have quite a range . This was a day or two after John saw the one in Lake Ann .
Bill , That stove pipe been leaking for a while , never know what he may have to say . Come to think of it , ya never know what he may be burnin .

jim-NE · « **Reply #7 on:** May 31, 2004, 05:31:32 PM »

Been a few stories and sightings here in Southeastern Nebraska going around, too.
Within last few years, had one hit by a car just across the river over in Iowa (Hamburg), and then one was darted/captured just off the 680 interchange near heart of Omaha.
Local police in Paul, NE (just north of Grand Island) shot a big male near the grade school.
I had heard the stories for years while I was growing up, and I've always wanted to find a track or see one while running sets...but never have myself. I used to brush them off as just stories, too. And, depending upon the source, perhaps many of them were just that.
But, with the confirmed kills, incidents, and captures in recent years in this part of the state...where recorded confirmed evidence hadn't existed for nearly a century, well...anything is possible now.
Seeing other "odd" and "out-of-place" wildlife showing up, too. Armadillos are certainly not native to our state, but the last few dry, warm spells put them in peoples lawns in the South-Central part of the state.
Good luck with your cats!
Jim-NE

skidway · « **Reply #8 on:** June 01, 2004, 03:02:47 AM »

Two were seen by a man I consider to be a reliable source just west of Pearl Lake while he and his son were mushrooming. By the time they could get a DNR officer out there to look at the tracks left in the road the rain washed them out so it's considered another unsubstantiated sighting.

Dan Mich Trapper · « **Reply #9 on:** June 01, 2004, 08:59:39 AM »

skidway , where you live . I grew up about 2 miles south east of pearl lake . I now live only about 5 miles east . We camp and fish that lake alot . Do alot of deer hunting back there too .

skidway · « **Reply #10 on:** June 01, 2004, 10:22:21 AM »

Traverse City. You and I have meant and did a little trading one time.

Dan Mich Trapper · « **Reply #11 on:** June 03, 2004, 01:15:10 AM »

Was that at Prevos by chance ?

skidway · « **Reply #12 on:** June 03, 2004, 02:10:18 AM »

Last fall at your place. Traded a few traps.

Mallard · « **Reply #13 on:** June 03, 2004, 06:56:10 AM »

Looks like Danno has been spending a bit of time by that old Lake Anne wood stove as well..... his memory is about as clear as John's eye sight.

LOL

Dave Lyons · « **Reply #14 on:** June 03, 2004, 10:08:46 AM »

Hey Mallard which wood stove the one on longlake Rd.

Dave

skidway · « **Reply #15 on:** June 03, 2004, 10:49:02 AM »

John's wood stove isn't his problem I don't believe. About 20 years ago somebody spotted Bigfoot around there; I think it was John :roll: He used to have a lot of fun!

Mallard · « **Reply #16 on:** June 04, 2004, 01:15:06 AM »

Dave,

There's lots of loose stoves on that road it seems. lol

Skidway,

Some things just never change.

Supprised he hasn't seen the Lake Anne bessy yet. lol

While the cougar sighting isn't the hardest thing to beleive, I'm still waiting for a track, a picture, one waiting in my trap......you know, something solid. I can't dispute what I don't see for myself, but just can't back it yet either. Kind of brought up with the don't beleive anything you here, and only half what you see mentality.

skidway · « **Reply #17 on:** June 04, 2004, 02:01:58 AM »

I agree with you Mallard. I believe the guy saw what he said he saw but I need to see it for myself for it to be real.

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #18 on:** June 04, 2004, 02:41:30 AM »

Mallard:
There are plenty of pictures and plenty of tracks as evidence. The "Buck Levasseur Outdoor TV Show" showed video footage of a cougar crouched in a back yard in the U.P. and then slinking off, one crossing the road, etc. As reported by the NTA, the national Wildlife federation along with MSU did research on cougars, getting DNA done on scat found in the U. P. and Northern Lower which proved to be 100% cougar scat, some animals weighing up to 200 lbs they say. As for tracks, I saw tracks as far back as 49 years ago. There was a report in the U.P. in 1955 of a cougar crossing the road leaving tracks in the snow. My Dad said "I have to see this to believe it so we drove as fast as we could to the area and sure enough there were genuine cougar tracks. The research mentioned above also stated there is no mystery about where they originated from, that they are simply remnants of cougars that were here 100 years ago and there numbers are now expanding enough again to note plenty of sightings. Proof of this they say is the fact that so many color phases are reported from light tan to pure black. These off colors like black and gray are the result they say of interbreeding amongst families. The video of the backyard cougar was a dark gray cougar which was shown to a zoologist who stated the identical thing, the result of a come-back by years of inter-breeding.
Asa

Mallard · « **Reply #19 on:** June 04, 2004, 03:04:39 AM »

Not doubting it for a moment Asa, especially in the UP and the northern tip of the lower. My comments are directed towards the local sighting(s) in my parts, and more specificaly an area that is part of my trap line.

skidway · « **Reply #20 on:** June 04, 2004, 09:45:06 AM »

Likewise.

Dan Mich Trapper · « **Reply #21 on:** June 05, 2004, 01:07:25 PM »

Ok skidway , now I remember who you are . Thanks for the #0 by the way . Bill the only reason its "your line " is cause I gave it to ya the other day cause I heard there was a couger runnin around there .

Mallard · « **Reply #22 on:** June 07, 2004, 01:03:15 AM »

With all the hauntings, alien landings, and cougars sightings in the area, I'm kind of supprised you have any line left at all. LOL. I'm not one to sit in the bushes and play hymnals on my predator caller while you run the night checks, but man you sure can run for fast for a big fella. :eek: LOL. Still can't explain the rose pedals and wood crosses :shock: ........Hmmmm. You do have an odd following that's for sure.

Dan Mich Trapper · « **Reply #23 on:** June 07, 2004, 03:40:33 AM »

All will be forgotten by fall and the trappin fever hits . Mallard , will you allow me to have my line back by then ? :cry:

If them creatures have been runnin them woods this long and I aint seen one in my 18 yrs of trappin , I aint to worried . Besides , I always practice my right to carry . :excuseme:

Mallard · « **Reply #24 on:** June 07, 2004, 04:19:09 AM »

Jr. is the one smelling like Lenon's #2 all the time.......just keep him 20' ahead of you.

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #25 on:** June 07, 2004, 09:53:56 AM »

Now mallard, whats wrong with smelling like Lenon's #2 lures? Smells like perfume to me and it also keeps bill collectors and IRS agents back a distance, LOL!

:-D Ace

Wackyquacker · « **Reply #26 on:** June 07, 2004, 05:16:20 PM »

Asa, you just keep that there #2 stuff to yourself least til you get good unbreakable bottles. I won't need to re lure my truck for two more years thanks to your defective bottle of natures call :evil:

RdFx · « **Reply #27 on:** June 08, 2004, 01:08:48 AM »

Asa dont give that OLD Wacky a hoot heck what he hasnt mentioned he has trapped many a yote and cat by just parking his trapping vehicle in field back of his house and set traps around it........ Heck its even rumored Wacky keeps door open and they jump in. All he has to do is slam door and take them home!

Besides now he has his vehicle to himself and no one in family wants to borrow it for friday nite :roll:

Asa Lenon · « **Reply #28 on:** June 08, 2004, 12:25:10 PM »

:grin: What 'ol Wacky didn't mention is that he quit making payments on the truck and none of those suit and tie 'fellas that come to repossess it will get near it with a ten foot pole.

:-D Ace

jim-NE · « **Reply #29 on:** June 09, 2004, 12:19:37 AM »

I bet that as summer approaches, and the internal temps on his truck rise when he parks it with the windows closed...it must get "intense" in that cab too.