Strange sounds in the bush??

[M12shooter]

My pal and I were out last thursday afternoon chasing ruffies around. Numbers are way up from last couple years as we put 19 up within the last two hours of daylight. Came close but didn't manage to fill our limits... but hey were not starving!

Having a cool one on the tailgate after dark when something starts screaming a short distance to the south. Now I'm not scared of the dark or anything but this blood curdling scream went on and on and made the hair on the back of my neck stand up! At first we thought it was a hesterical teenager screaming for help but that didn't add up. Have been in the bush for 35 years and have heard timber wolves and coyotes howl, foxes bark, rabbits scream in agony, etc. but nothing ever like this before.

Got home and downloaded some cougar sounds and behold, one was real close. Sounded like a tortured drawn out "wayyyaaalllp" for a lack of better explanation.

I know in the past cougar have been sighted in the area and just wondering if anyone else has had a experience like this? Maybe you fellas from the west coast and rocky mountain regions of the country were cougars are common can add something?

Ted from Manitoba

 

[captonion]

Porkupines make quite the scream.Kinda like a baby crying violently.

 

[Kev]

Best guess would be a (4legged) cougar. I have heard them when they sound like a little kid screaming.

 

[Alberta Bigbore]

you'll have to forgive me, that was me screaming when i realized i still had a wood tick on me from the last time i visited the inlaws in Manitoba

 

[Gibbs505]

LOL Good one!!//l\\

 

[Deano]

What area were you in?

There have been many cougar sightings in Manitoba. One was killed in the Stead area in the 1970's. Have heard of them in the south east as well.

Could have sworn I saw one in the Agassiz forest about 4 years ago. Ran accross the road and I just saw it out of the corber of my eye.

 

[Ceska]

Your discription sounds like a cougar.

Anything like this?

This is a female in heat.

 

[Calum]

As Bubbles would say...It's a Samsquatch!

 

[M12shooter]

Ceska, the first download was the sound we heard! That was the one I downloaded after getting home which made me 99 percent sure it was a cougar. Darn spookiest sound I've ever hear in the bush!

Deano, we were hunting the Mars Hills area east of Libau.

Ted

 

[Gatehouse]

Cougar "screams" are indeed freaky sounding...

 

[Alberta Bigbore]

no kidding. i just finished watching Amityville Horror, and didnt need to listen to those sounds before bed

 

[303carbine]

Beer and chili will do that before nighty night time.......

 

[Boer seun]

There's a cougar in the town where the old man lives and it was spotted last week right under his garden fence by a neighbour!! DNR has been trying t trap it for about a year now with no luck it seems to not fear humans as it has been spotted by many people and even walked around the Ball-diamonds 3 or 4 weeks ago!
They decided to shoot it now. Just can't have that around with young kids and such

 

[sean18mb]

I know in the last few years, 2 cougars have been killed around the Riding Mountain and Duck Mountains. Earlier this year 2 horses were attacked by cougars in the Spruce Woods area where I was bowhunting this year. There was also one spotted close to the Devils Punch bowl.

They do exist in Manitoba. I've never seen or heard one, but one guy I know saw one while fishing the Assiniboine in the Spruce Woods park, and another guy who hunts there came across some cougar tracks while he was scouting for elk.

 

[thedanielm]

We've had a few up in the porqupine forest area in saskatchewan. We farm not too far from the forest boundry and a few people have had cougars come into the settlement and swipe newborn calves. The DNR attempted trapping but never caught anything. Last I heard they were getting someone who specializes in catching cougars, apparently they use dogs.

 

[ckc123]

Sounded like a tortured drawn out "wayyyaaalllp" for a lack of better explanation.

I had a similar situation happen afew years ago, but about 45 mins north of toronto (where there are no cougars).. it FREAKED me out.. I've ever heard anything like I did.. seeing as it came form the property (wooded) beside me, I ended up calling the cops just in case..thinking it may be a neighbour/kids etc) but nothing ever came of it..

 

[maple_leaf_eh]

I don't believe a word of it! Cougars are cars, running shoes and trollops.

I'm voting for Sasquatch! Bubbles isn't as thick as his glasses.

 

[Deano]

Ceska, the first download was the sound we heard! That was the one I downloaded after getting home which made me 99 percent sure it was a cougar. Darn spookiest sound I've ever hear in the bush!

Deano, we were hunting the Mars Hills area east of Libau.

Ted

That's about 6-8 miles from Stead. That forest runs for a long ways, and if there were cougars around, that would be as good an area as any.

 

[BIGREDD]

I am betting on a porcupine... this is a common occurence this time of year. They are breeding right now and the screams you describe are exactly what they sound like!

 

[senior]

I am betting on a porcupine... this is a common occurence this time of year. They are breeding right now and the screams you describe are exactly what they sound like!

Well I can understand the screams if porkys are breeding!

OUCH...