I was attacked by a cougar when I was 17. One of my greatest teenage memories.

I have seen cam pics of cougars off mtn fork rd in new market and in huntsville off hobbs island rd. Was not black, was no dang house cats either. I know a few that have seen cats in those areas for decades. One cedar on hobbs island rd smells like cat piss all the time. There are huge claw marks on that tree 7ft up. That tree is maybe 100ft from hobbs island rd

There have been a lot of times I wished there was a cougar on some of our roads, it might cut back on some of those idiot bicycle riders. It is tempting to bump them a little to get them to get on the edge of the road. Maybe some of the wild hogs around here will knock a few of them over.

THIS

Get a pic, a bone, poop, track, shoot one do something otherwise there is no wild population of vougars in alabama period.

Had it happen to me but I was a little older as was she.

Did see one in Skyline on a bow hunt in the late 70's. Had a racoon in his mouth. 25 yards. No doubt what I saw. It was cougar.

I can't imagine having a 150lb cat jump on me. I know how hard it can be to handle a pissed off house cat, I can't imagine a big cat.

I had a cougar attack me in my mid-20s. I kept her for a pet.

Are you sure you kept her, or did she keep you?

Is a vougar in the Cald family?

Oh boy, we have a new word in the Aldeer vocabulary! Vougar, deserves the same fame as cald and dover man pincher.

Trust me...Its Fun!

Vulgar cougar?

Vougars are scary, Cougars are sexy.

voluptuous cougar??

This relates to the thread about the poachers in Washington and Oregon. At one time, both states allowed the use of dogs to hunt cougars. The antis got the public stirred up about how inhumane it was, and it became illegal. As a result, cougars no longer associate the sight and smell of humans with the unpleasant experience of being hounded. They will come right into the suburban/forest interface looking for deer. My neighbors have seen cougars and bears in my neighborhood during fawn drop. To a cougar, a human is no longer a threat, but a menu item.

Cougar and bear attacks are both rare. The cats that myself and other hunters I know that have been called in here in NW Oregon while elk hunting basically got out of sight quickly after discovering that humans were there and not elk. Only issue I've had has been bears with cubs.

Curious whether that might be because a cat that comes in to an elk call is surprised to not find what he expected to find vs. a nearby cat that hears an approaching noise, such as a jogger, gets in ambush position, and then decides whether to attack or not when he sees what it is? I wonder how many cats you've walked under/by that simply decided not to attack you for whatever reason? It does seem to be rare though, as you say, or at least you don't hear that much about attacks and when you do it's always the humans fault for being there
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20 posts in a thread about cougars and not one single comment from Outback? The man MUST be dead. Someone call and check!!