I’m confident I’ve walked the woods more than most of you (in and out of hunting season) and have had close encounters with deer, coyotes, bob cat, wolves, black bear and even a cougar, and have never felt threatened of being eaten. I’ve been charged with threat displays, but have been aware of what they were. I would be more fearful of two-legged predators walking through my yard than the four-legged variety. Those, unfortunately, cannot be shot on site.

And here’s another thing: Don’t you hunters out there realize that once a viable population of predators is established, a new game animal will be available to hunt. As for grazing game populations, nature has a way to balance things out. It just takes time. It’s human intervention that usually throws everything out of balance. If you can’t share the top of the food chain when you’re out in the woods, do us real hunters a favor and stay home. Fence in your yard if you want to keep nature out.

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Most of peeps are a bunch freakin tree huggin lunies.

While you marvel at a big cougar cats beauty and feel so damn sorry for it, it would eat your asses alive, your kids and your domesticated pets.

This is no pet or friend of man. This animal is an apex predator in the USA.
Get out of the concrete jungles and take a stroll through the country sometime.
Sometimes its you or them! Lemme guess some of you would be willing to bleed out and take this cats place laid up on the tailgate? Right on!

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While a cougar attack on a human can wreak horrendous damage, and death, the attacks are rare indeed, and the total death toll of humans caused by cougars over the last 120 YEARS is less than 30 in North America. Since 2001, more than 100 people have died from Tasers. In 2009, there were 30 US fatalities from dog bites. Your child may be in more danger from the dog you keep than the cougar you saw. You might consider that seeing a mountain lion pass through your property is a rare gift. It should also remind you that there are dangers to children and pets, and that you and your children need to exercise diligence, especially around the family dog.

Given the rarity of both interactions and contacts with mountain lions, I would suggest that you worry more about a family member or a neighbor molesting your son or daughter. As your children reach driving age, I would suggest that your focus shift to their maturity regarding driving, and the type of friends they choose. Many teenagers will drink, drive, and speed through your neighborhood.

I do not believe all dogs, neighbors, or teenagers should be called beautiful creatures. I wouldn’t go as far as sayin kill them all off. But I do belive that if you see one on your property u have every reason to kill it. Espesialy if you have animals or children. It’s unsafe to have them near your home.

Doesn’t that previous paragraph seem excessive? Yet you suggest killing a creature that poses extremely little threat to you or your family. When you know that a mountain lion is nearby, show the same diligence that you would walking at night in any American city.

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I’m also a Trapper in Texas, have been for years. I have seen these animals and other predatory animals in action. And yes cougars do try to avoid human contact at all cost, most wildlife does. And yes they do serve a purpose here, everything does. But contact is sometimes unavoidable. And if your attacked or one of your loved ones is attacked by a cougar. You will fight for your life or for that loved ones life that you are watching being torn apart before your eyes, your going to fight for your life not just stand there and say “Ok,eat me”

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You want people to grow up? Ok, here’s an adult point of view: Guess what? “Manifest Destiny” is not real. Just because you’re human, does not mean you have the inherent right to occupy land where other animals already live, and on which they rely, and should you choose to build and live their anyway, you’ll need to deal with the consequences, like dead pets and livestock, and even children.

It’s so simple, if everyone would just reproduce less and stop living in places they ought not to, we, and the other animals living in this world would have a lot less negative interaction, not to mention countless other problems that this would help to mitigate.

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So today I let my dog outside as I usually do. There was what I believe to be a mountain lion in the yard. Good thin I was able to pull my dog back ir I am pretty sure he would have been attacked. This animal was mad. I was looking on google to see if they are common in my area. And came across these photos an this whole conversation.
I do not believe this should be called a beautiful creature. I wouldn’t go as far as sayin kill them all off. But I do belive that if you see one on your property u have every reason to kill it. Espesialy if you have animals or children. It’s unsafe to have them near your home.
And I think it is completely wrong or all of you to criticize these photos and asine that you know the animal was killed just for hinting large game as a sport. What if this person had the same situation as me.
Just saying don’t be to quick to judge. And before anyone fires back at me too. I do have more than a high school degree. I am a college graduate. Maybe you shouldn’t call someone an ignoramous and make yourself sound even more absurd than they did.

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