Archive for tag: Mountain Lion
Let’s Walk The Dog AFTER Breakfast
March 31, 2010 Sightings, VideoFascinating footage of a female mountain lion and three young cats showing up in a driveway in Palmer Lake, Colorado. Located between Colorado Springs and Denver, living in this rural community requires checking outside before opening the door: Doubletough contributor Aaron Enget has had several run-ins with bears there, from tipping trash cans to roaming [...]
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No Overnight Camping
February 27, 2010 SightingsThe story goes that the Arizona Game & Fish Department set up these water tanks in the White Tank Mountain Recreation Park, about twenty miles west of Phoenix. Mountain lions had been seen in the area and the idea was to draw them in to “monitor their activity” and perhaps attempt to get an idea [...]
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Mountain Lion Vs. Ram: No Winner
June 9, 2009 Wildlife In ActionAn incredible scene for two hikers in Glacier National Park in Montana. The road was closed to vehicular traffic (it was winter after all) and the hikers, Daniel Wilder and a friend according to the email, found this mountain lion and ram. What took place is obvious: the cougar had the ram in its jaw [...]
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Honey What Have You Been Feeding The Cat
May 9, 2009 SightingsNot all wildlife showing up in the backyard are Bambi and Thumper, or even the neighborhood kids sneaking into the pool. Here in my neck of the woods about the scariest thing sneaking through an open door are these freakish jumping spiders or the bassett hound chasing the chihuahua. These shots of a mountain lion [...]
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A Surprise In The Field
November 12, 2008 Campfire StoriesYesterday I was north of Pierre, South Dakota chasing pheasants and it reminded me of this email from 2006. The story goes that a pheasant hunter named Kent Ferguson of Mohall, North Dakota was in the field when his dog jumped a mountain lion. The cat went after the dog and Kent dispatched it with [...]
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Nice Kitty
September 14, 2008 AsidesThis submission came with a note saying the two men were “looking for animal horns near Vernon, Utah”. What we’ve got here are two Doubletough guys coming across a mountain lion during lunch, but rather than defend its kill, it welcomes them like a long-lost pet! Remarkably, the cat appears to let one of them [...]
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One Big Kitty
August 15, 2008 Mountain LionPhotos of this mountain lion made the round online during the spring of ’07. Supposedly it was shot up north near Walkerton, Ontario, targeted after it had killed some cattle. The grow ‘em big (the lion, not the cattle) in Canada as the ranchers said this one had friends.
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