Cougar Advice

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I live in south eastern Ontario, where cougars are not supposed to exist but my mother in law saw one in plain sight on Friday mid morning 75 yards from there front door, 100 yards from this years calves and right exactly were my yellow lab Bear plays on a daily basis. So as you can imagine I am a bit concerned. I have been told that the Mnr will claim It couldn't have been and they don't exist. I don't want to break any laws but I also don't want to share our beef and my Deer with this predator and I really don't want any harm to come to my dog. What would you fellas do?
 
Research the MNR website and determine what the cougar's endangered/extinct/exterpated status is. I think the penalities for shooting one are listed there too. Breaking the game laws is not a good thing to do.

Sorry, but the cougar has to kill your cattle before the MNR will pay attention and the deer aren't yours until you hang a tag on them.
 
Stay out of small town bars at night near closing time, or bring a willing wing man as cougar bait so you can make an escape. :D
 
Go buy yourself a hound dog .Bluetick, walker, black&tan,redbone breeds,there are some walker hound breeds in Ontario. Or a mixed breed hound.You don't have to kill the cat ,but after a couple times being treed or chased,he'll find a new home.
 
If it is a cougar, how do you figure that it doesn't belong? Did it escape from a zoo, was it turned loose by it's former owner? I'm sure it didn't travel all the way from BC to find a better place to live (in Ontario).
 
marba said:
Go buy yourself a hound dog .Bluetick, walker, black&tan,redbone breeds,there are some walker hound breeds in Ontario. Or a mixed breed hound.You don't have to kill the cat ,but after a couple times being treed or chased,he'll find a new home.
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Your joking right?

A Cougar would kill any dog in seconds my friend.


My brother is a geophysicist assistant, and they had to mace a cougar that actually jumped out of a tree onto buddies back "Very lucky there"
MNR is always called in their line of work, have to report the serial number on the bear mace can etc etc.

They have had 5 Cougar sightings in the last 4 weeks, and many of bear.

Cougars ARE NOT native here in Ontario... they we're placed here.

Endangered or not.. If a Cougar crosses paths with me and tries to kill me, I am killing it in defense.

Not a damn thing anyone can do in that case. Your allowed to legally defend yourself if your life is in danger.
 
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It was funny how the ministry called my buddies pictures 10 years ago "doctored" of the coug just north of huntsville Ont...

Now, I can count on my hand people whom I trust that have physically seen cougars within 30 KM of my cottage, and another 3 people who have seen them around the huntsville area...


We've all heard the stories as to why there are here, and who introduced them and why, but this has yet to be confirmed by the ministry as far as I know...
 
they are definatly in Ontario. I know of 2 ppl that seen a cat during last November's deer hunt near Badjeros Ontario (real small town). There was one spotted in a tree in town near a public school in Orangeville Ontario 7 years ago. I remember that day, It was a ghost town for 5 square miles around the last spot seen. They had video of it sitting at the top of a tree, right at the back of the field at the public school.


If the Ministy said they don't exist in Ontario then why can't we shoot them? Prove them wrong lol
 
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You are aware that dogs are used to hunt cougar, right? The cougar might be stronger, but it's a coward and will run from a big enough dog
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A treed cougar can and has in the past killed dogs with one bite to the head.
I'd say most cougar dogs by themselves are in trouble.
 
Just because they are in the area doesn't mean that they are out there hunting you every time you step out your front door. They are no different than any other animal... the VAST majority of the time they want to get the fack away from you more than you want to get away from them. I've seen one cougar in my backyard before, I thought it was pretty cool and counted myself lucky to see it. I think you're over reacting a little.
 
Consipiracy theories, released zoo animals, the MNR planting Cougars.... yeah and Elvis is smoking crack with the Samsquantch in Area 51!:rolleyes::onCrack:

This is from the Ontario Puma Association...
http://www.ontariopuma.ca/links.htm
In Ontario, the puma (P.c. couguar NA) was almost hunted to near extinction and by the late 1800s it's numbers may have been as low as forty individuals. Since the turn of the century the puma was no longer hunted in Ontario and has slowly gained its original range over the last 100 years. Currently there is an estimated 550 North American pumas in the province and their numbers are increasing steadily to a sustainable population.

Check out the map for historical and last ten years sightings... the map speaks for itself.:cool:
http://www.ontariopuma.ca/photos/map0706.jpg
 
Cool. Another positive sighting of cougar in Ontario.

I wouldn't be concerned for adults but I would keep the dogs inside and watch any domestic animals and I suppose I would go to the MNR regardless of whether or not they believe you. You gotta at least try them I figure.

If the MNR deny the existence then how could you be faulted if you had to shoot an animal that doesn't exist?

Not that that is likely to happen of course. Odds of you having to do anything with the cat, or even seeing it again are almost nil.
 
Oh - There's definitely cougars here on Central Ontario. Whether the MNR will do anything to assist you is another story - they cant handle the current bear problem! (Call 800 number, talk to some summer student...)
The current approach with the MNR is to "make you feel good about getting less"...
 
We've just recently had a couple Cougar sitings out here in Prince Edward County. A guy and his dog saw one in an open field and it started to barrel down on them. They made it back to their house and called the MNR. Animal control and the MNR officer both identified it later (how the animal was still in the area with MNR's response time is beyond me).

I'd personally like to see them make a comeback. As much as I like shooting Yotes I'd welcome some backup in the off-hours.
 
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