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First, the story…
Our neighbor was letting a friend hunt on some of his property within a few hundred yards of where I live. The hunter came back saying he was spooked. I’m not sure what exactly he saw but it was explained to me as “he saw a deer in a tree”. At first, I thought they meant a deer was running through the forest & tried to jump through a locust tree for some reason or another and fell short, got impaled, and thus - a deer in a tree. After further explination I’m told the deer was drug into the tree by a Cougar and my neighbors friend at some point saw a Couger and the Deer in a tree.
I was too busy joking about seeing a deer in a tree to get the full story. I have to talk to my neighbor tomorrow about something unrelated so I’m going to go get the full story and see if I can get a picture of this deer in a tree. Our dogs have been making noise at strange hours lately yet I haven’t been able to see what they are barking at. I’m interested in finding out if we have a Cougar around here. My camera doesn’t zoom well so I doubt I manage a picture of a Cougar but we’ll see. I need to get a bunch of those motion activated cameras hunters use and set them up in different spots in hopes of getting a picture of a Cougar. I’m excited to find out we have those awesome big cats around here.
We’ve got deer, turkey, coyote, bobcats, all kinds of other wild animals and now maybe a Cougar? That’s just awesome. I can’t wait to hunt for evidence tomorrow. What kind of wild life runs across your driveway?
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Quick note: I’ve run around the woods here quite a bit in the last 5 years. I’ve never heard any noises I could associated to large cats nor have I ever seen any trees that looked like scratching posts. To top it off, you’d think that one big cat would kill a deer every week or so and I definiately haven’t see that many deer carcasses around here. I’ll cross my fingers before I head out tomorrow in search of evidence.
Cougars don’t ever drag deer up trees. I live in cougar central and we see a lot of them, their kills, their tracks, and their dead bodies when we shoot them. They bury the deer under leaves and dirt and feed on it over the next few days until it is gone. Your friend is either pulling your leg or he is smoking some serious weed. The only large cat that will drag it’s prey up a tree is a leopard.
That’s what I heard. That cougars don’t drag their prey into trees for any reason. Oh well, Zippy and I scowered the property where the hunter was hunting and we found no tree climbing deer. Bummer.
I can only assume we would hear the large cat long before we ever saw a trace of it. Thanks for the good information. Their is a lot of contradictory information available about what cougars do with their prey.
Posted by Josh Houghtelin, on November 25th, 2007, às 8:28 pm. #.
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