Here, Kitty Kitty...
 

Taken in the Palisades area or Eastern Washington, between Quincy and Wenatchee:

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Nine!

I thought they were more solitary, not pack animals.

holy crap mucho los gatos! yesterday down by ft. huachuca(home of the joy stick UAV's for the planet), az fish and game was called for an alleged OCELOT sighting.



and by gawd it WAS AN OCELOT! rare and endangered and endemic to at least 1/2 the state, and mexico to the south.



can you imagine traipsing along bored to tears hunting and coming up on that many mtn. kittys!



me i would pick the biggest one,nail him and pray to buddah the others split the scene! if they didnt split and wanted to contest the area..................well of course by all means i would have to pull out the 33rd glock!(which i dont own)! LOL!



p.s. mtn kittys live and die in about a 250 sq. mile area.

i'm guessing 8 males and one female about to come in season.

awesome..

a boys night out..or
a C-Gruppe meeting..?

Rika

they looking at the north star or something? that is one bright star!

Wow that's some scary stuff!

Poker night in the high desert.

That was bad. REAL bad!

more like poke-her night...

Is that a cow in the fore ground? I tried magnifying the picture but the resolution is poor.

that's what it looks like to me too

maybe with enuff dead carcasses on the landscape they will evolve into the same semi-sociality as lions have ...

Very cool! I bet if you stumbled across them they'd probably run. Actually very unlikely to stumble across them - they hear much better than humans and see in the dark a lot better too.

run away? or....

Lions would defend their food source (if it really is a dead cow). What an accumulation of cougars would do is something I am interested in seeing you guys test.

you first....I'll cover you:)

Looks like a rock to me, like a well marbled chunk of granite or something. None of the kitties have been feeding. They don't normally just sit around like that, politely waiting their turn, either. That, and they are not likely to share their kill as it would be among a pride of lions. Any other cougars approaching would engender a fight from the owner.

OK but why the social behavior from what is normally a solo animal?

I tell ya, its the End of Days!

You must tell us your secret to herding cats...

German shepard? A big one!

mtn lions/cougars usually need a deer sized critter about once to twice every 2 weeks. they are just big katz, hence they are finicky eaters. they will eat when hungry and then bury the rest. when hungry again they will go back to the kill site and then feed again, until gone and then go after fresh prey.


the kill site is usually where hunter/tree hugger/ nature lovers come into contact and they WILL contest the kill!



now if ya had lil dawggies with you , they would split as soon as hearing the lil dawggies a distance off yelping barking. because theyz katz and theyz hate lil dawwgies. and lil dawggies unleashed, will take the scent and chase them up a tree. becuz their katz and they like trees.


when you come upon a mtn lion kill it will be completely buried in brush and some dirt or whatever grasses that are endemic to the area.


when you find one, you better be smart about things, because they dont go far from a kill site and you just may have a world of hurt coming your way BIG TIME!


out in the junipers south of the grande canon(grand canyon) they nail the hell out of elk. and its a real obvious smell, and when close a real obvious pile of brush/dirt/grasses with the ensuent crows/mag pies/ravens/vultures generally circling an area with a fresh kill. the birds will 1st nail the soft tissue. ie. the eyes and the lips and the ears, then they go for whatever else is easy pickings.



when you find one of these, and any hunter worth his salt will go after a scent like this, because there is ALWAYS action around a kill site, as mentioned the 1st thing you will see are the crows/ravens/vultures circling. (JUS LAK DA MOVIES), and this is when ya want a buddy to watch yer 6 oclock. and this ISNT A JOKE!



same goes for GUT PILES.....................ALWAYS ACTION around them for a few days after your hunt after you have gutted/skinned/1/4'd yer tagged species.



katz very very seldom go after road kill . they want fresh meat period.



now excuse me why i go and continue my sons brand new springfield M1-A "loaded" stainless barrel, evil black synthetic stock build/transformation, which will be used just for such a chance encounter with a mtn kitty! and lord knows these fine(?) katz dont want to be shot with a simple out of the box HO-HUM accurate, boring M1-A. they would much rather be shot with USGI match grade parts/sadlak parts/and springfield super duper match parts fitted M1-A! LOL!