Is that you, Kitty?

Morning ATS, i live in Nova Scotia canada since 1981 and have heard of mountain lion sightings my whole life, but even to today if you called Dept Nat Resources they will tell you there are no mountain lions on Cape Breton Island,

novascotia.ca...

www.saltwire.com... 252/

lastnight my friend sent me a picture that was taken on the west side of the island where sheep have been going missing, i dont know why they try to keep it so hush hush, and to what point but here we are

originally posted by: mczinger
Morning ATS, i live in Nova Scotia canada since 1981 and have heard of mountain lion sightings my whole life, but even to today if you called Dept Nat Resources they will tell you there are no mountain lions on Cape Breton Island,

novascotia.ca...

www.saltwire.com... 252/

lastnight my friend sent me a picture that was taken on the west side of the island where sheep have been going missing, i dont know why they try to keep it so hush hush, and to what point but here we are

We get told something similar where I live, but we've been getting cat sighting for years. The government doesn't want to acknowledge them.

just to be clear im not so much sure of a conspiracy, i didnt know what to post this in

originally posted by: mczinger
Morning ATS, i live in Nova Scotia canada since 1981 and have heard of mountain lion sightings my whole life, but even to today if you called Dept Nat Resources they will tell you there are no mountain lions on Cape Breton Island,

novascotia.ca...

www.saltwire.com... 252/

lastnight my friend sent me a picture that was taken on the west side of the island where sheep have been going missing, i dont know why they try to keep it so hush hush, and to what point but here we are

Very nice find.

No matter where you are that is a rare sight.

We see wolves here in Ontario where they supposedly don't exist too.

Our Ministry of Natural Resources needs to get out on fielders more...

me and my friend seen a dog in the highlands we were pretty far away we thought it was a deer or moose, when we got to where it there were wolf tracks, bigger then my hand, we have big coyotes but this was no coyote, supposedly they were introduced here in the seventies

a reply to: mczinger

We own several acres near Meteghan on the coast overlooking the Bay of Fundy. I have access to the ocean. Your way up there! My issue is the Black Bears. They are all over the property.

I was thinking could I grow hemp and feed it to the bears for protection?

That or buy several Donkeys as they can kill the kitty and the bears

No secret about cougars around here.

They're all over the dang place here in Colorado! Cougars, bears, wolves, coyotes, you name it.

BTW...the only good wolf is a DEAD wolf!

a reply to: Waterglass

hahaha yes, one of my relatives is all about the guard goats, some breeds are pretty intense creatures.
i think you can only get the BC black bears to guard your crop haha

but theres all kinds of different animals and sealife moving this way now, chick went swimming off a boat here this summer and got nommed on by a great white, not the good kinda way at all, they are tagging all kinds of them. Weird wasps i been seeing, there are turkey vultures here now too i seen the first one years ago noone believed me, then i got a #ty picture of one and then other people were seeing them, as long as the earthquakes and tornadoes and poison monkeys stay away

LOL welcome to the "No Cougars here"

I'm in MI, and up until a few years ago, the DNR was on DENY, DENY, DENY.

Even with trail cam evidence.
When the actual videos started being posted everywhere, they finally started admitting it.

I Never understood the why of the deny.

yeah thats kind of what im getting at, i am not sure the reasoning behind it. Even after so many people seeing them over the years and obvious photo and video evidence, ah well shrug

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
BTW...the only good wolf is a DEAD wolf!

That's our attitude towards coyotes around here. They keep me up at night ffs...

I guess we killed most of the wolves off, now they're mostly up north.

We have wolverines though....so...nananana

Awesome capture! I'm on the mainland in the outskirts of HRM and I saw one sauntering across a field at dusk but nobody believed me. I've heard a female caterwauling for a mate as well but people will say, "Oh you just heard a bobcat. "
I don't understand why the denial....

originally posted by: chiefsmom
LOL welcome to the "No Cougars here"

I'm in MI, and up until a few years ago, the DNR was on DENY, DENY, DENY.

Even with trail cam evidence.
When the actual videos started being posted everywhere, they finally started admitting it.

I Never understood the why of the deny.

The probably don't want to freak out the yuppies...

Omg there's things that STILL live in the wild? Aaaaaaaaah.......

Great pictures ! That’s a well fed cat too !

originally posted by: Waterglass
That or buy several Donkeys as they can kill the kitty and the bears

...What? You think a donkey is going to kill a mountain lion and bears? How do you figure that?

All the denial is very odd and same story in so many areas!

I wonder if it's simply because they can be around but are so elusive. Where I live it's claimed to have a very high population, yet even all my years in the bush, riding horses as a kid and working as an adult I only ever saw one up close when it ate some of my chickens in broad daylight in my backyard. We had had a couple months where they lounged in a field nearby in the mornings. My kids told me about walking by them going to school, that they had thought they were deer at first but then realized deer don't sit like cats. As a responsible mom, I assumed it was nonsense and as the kids weren't scared, made them walk to school for a couple more days until reports started coming in and the school posted warnings.

So I fell for the "cougars must be imaginary/rare" too, as I'd never seen one either till we got swamped with them. Theory here is they are a little bottlenecked by the geography mid island so young males get pushed out of more forested habitat to look for their own space and there are lots of yummy cats, small dogs and livestock that go missing or eaten so they hung around. Then they just disappeared again and it's been about eight years with only the odd sighting.

They sure are beautiful and I feel pretty privileged to have seen them in real life finally.

Cougars on vancouver island

They have one Hell of a Kick.
You might be Surprised.

originally posted by: trollz

originally posted by: Waterglass
That or buy several Donkeys as they can kill the kitty and the bears

...What? You think a donkey is going to kill a mountain lion and bears? How do you figure that?

originally posted by: igloo
All the denial is very odd and same story in so many areas!

I wonder if it's simply because they can be around but are so elusive. Where I live it's claimed to have a very high population, yet even all my years in the bush, riding horses as a kid and working as an adult I only ever saw one up close when it ate some of my chickens in broad daylight in my backyard. We had had a couple months where they lounged in a field nearby in the mornings. My kids told me about walking by them going to school, that they had thought they were deer at first but then realized deer don't sit like cats. As a responsible mom, I assumed it was nonsense and as the kids weren't scared, made them walk to school for a couple more days until reports started coming in and the school posted warnings.

So I fell for the "cougars must be imaginary/rare" too, as I'd never seen one either till we got swamped with them. Theory here is they are a little bottlenecked by the geography mid island so young males get pushed out of more forested habitat to look for their own space and there are lots of yummy cats, small dogs and livestock that go missing or eaten so they hung around. Then they just disappeared again and it's been about eight years with only the odd sighting.

They sure are beautiful and I feel pretty privileged to have seen them in real life finally.

Cougars on vancouver island

I was not aware of that. I always loved the island, I stayed in Cambell River when I was younger, awesome people. You're privileged to live there even if it wasn't the highest concentration of cougars...which is a bonus IMO.

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
No secret about cougars around here.

They're all over the dang place here in Colorado! Cougars, bears, wolves, coyotes, you name it.

BTW...the only good wolf is a DEAD wolf!

We have an over population of White Tail Deer here.
so geniuses release Coyotes to control the Deer.
now to many Coyotes so in comes the Cougars.
Fish and Wildlife says there are no Cougars but i have a friend that caught one
on his trail cam.
Something was killing his Calves.
Sure enough Cougar on Cam.
Then these idiots released rattlesnakes.
Wonder what species that was for lol