cougars near calgary :D
- Thread starter MrSchultz
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I never thought cougars are big until I saw one in Kamloops at the wildlife park.
Those are huge animals and very dangerous.
tactical870
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Buckhorn, Ontario
I saw one running down the side of the road on the way home from work tonight.... 
Donny Fenn1
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- East Kootenays
The pics were taken about 5km from my parents house which borders on the Cross Conservancy. The pics were taken near the "observatory" if you are familiar with the area.
- Location
- AB foothills
I already got an email saying the pics were from the Smoky Lake area
And it has begun...
http://www.calgarysun.com/news/albe...tml#/news/alberta/2010/04/29/pf-13765551.html
http://www.calgarysun.com/news/albe...tml#/news/alberta/2010/04/29/pf-13765476.html
After Martin Abbott laid out a meal of venison, who came to dinner was a surprise.
And even though his motion camera captured bite-by-bite a muscular male cougar followed by a family of five other hungry cats devouring a dead deer a stone’s throw from his Priddis-area home, Abbott said he’s not afraid.
“There’s been a lot more cougars around here in the last few years getting a bit uppity, but they’re doing what they do,” said Abbott.
“If you go hiking, just bring a gun and a dog.”
Last month, Abbott said he decided to conduct an experiment by placing a 200-lb female deer killed by a vehicle in timber 300 metres behind his home.
Hours after he set up a motion surveillance camera nearby, the device snapped a nocturnal, nervous-looking fox lingering over the carcass.
Ninety minutes later, a huge male cougar can be seen feasting on the deer.
“Within two hours it had devoured that deer,” said Abbott, whose property backs onto the Cross Nature Conservancy.
“I was surprised ... I thought there’d be a bear on it.”
The following night, Abbott’s camera captured a mother cougar and her four cubs poring over the deer’s remnants.
“They’re looking for table scraps,” he said.
Provincial wildlife officials, he said, have told him there are probably at least three litters of the big cats in the area.
The photos have gone viral on the Internet throughout the area and only heightened the concerns of people like his sister-in-law and neighbour Paula Abbott.
She said her eight-year-old bichon s**tzu Rosy was blinded by what she believes is the same male cougar in Abbott’s photos, after she encountered the cat killing an elk in August, 2008.
“I though ‘holy crap, I’m going to die,’” she said.
“Everybody out here’s had an encounter ... I have really struggled with going running.”
She said residents have had to resign themselves to the fact an abundance of four-legged food has attracted the cougars and also grizzlies to their area.
http://www.calgarysun.com/news/albe...tml#/news/alberta/2010/04/29/pf-13765476.html
After Martin Abbott laid out a meal of venison, who came to dinner was a surprise.
And even though his motion camera captured bite-by-bite a muscular male cougar followed by a family of five other hungry cats devouring a dead deer a stone’s throw from his Priddis-area home, Abbott said he’s not afraid.
“There’s been a lot more cougars around here in the last few years getting a bit uppity, but they’re doing what they do,” said Abbott.
“If you go hiking, just bring a gun and a dog.”
Last month, Abbott said he decided to conduct an experiment by placing a 200-lb female deer killed by a vehicle in timber 300 metres behind his home.
Hours after he set up a motion surveillance camera nearby, the device snapped a nocturnal, nervous-looking fox lingering over the carcass.
Ninety minutes later, a huge male cougar can be seen feasting on the deer.
“Within two hours it had devoured that deer,” said Abbott, whose property backs onto the Cross Nature Conservancy.
“I was surprised ... I thought there’d be a bear on it.”
The following night, Abbott’s camera captured a mother cougar and her four cubs poring over the deer’s remnants.
“They’re looking for table scraps,” he said.
Provincial wildlife officials, he said, have told him there are probably at least three litters of the big cats in the area.
The photos have gone viral on the Internet throughout the area and only heightened the concerns of people like his sister-in-law and neighbour Paula Abbott.
She said her eight-year-old bichon s**tzu Rosy was blinded by what she believes is the same male cougar in Abbott’s photos, after she encountered the cat killing an elk in August, 2008.
“I though ‘holy crap, I’m going to die,’” she said.
“Everybody out here’s had an encounter ... I have really struggled with going running.”
She said residents have had to resign themselves to the fact an abundance of four-legged food has attracted the cougars and also grizzlies to their area.
- Location
- London, Ontario
Holy.....I never knew that Cougars would be in a group......like ever. The moose one made me laugh tho.
Donny Fenn1
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- East Kootenays
in the pictures is the canine a fox or a coyote? the debate rages on.
