Mountain lions in PA!
12-15-2008 | 07:10 PM
#192
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RE: Mountain lions in PA!
My equivalent would be onour anniversary, provided I did and said precisely all the correct things over the course of the day. I mess up on purpose because our anniversary falls in the first week of November.
I do have priorities.
The bucks don't wait.
I do have priorities.
The bucks don't wait.
12-15-2008 | 08:05 PM
#193
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RE: Mountain lions in PA!
ORIGINAL: 4evrhtn
I wish I could have been able to get someone else out there to check it out. I wonder what type of response time I would have gotten had I called the PAGC and asked to have a warden or someone come out and look into a MTN LION track. I'd probably still be waiting, I can never get anyone to answer the phone when I have called the PAGC.
I will be going back there this upcoming weekend and I am going to scout the area around the creek and areas where there might be undisturbed tracks. If I find one and can document it, I will try to cover it with a milk crate or something to preserve it. I know it is unlikely I will find more tracks but I will try. Maybe take the video camera.
ORIGINAL: BTBowhunter
4evr, you say you came upon the track yourself. I asked that specifically because we get so many stories that are second, third, fourth,.... twenty seventh hand accounts of "the facts". You've never given any of us a reason to think you would lie on here that I've seen so my interest just went up a notch or two. It's a shame theprint got destroyed before you could document it. The problem is that we've still not been able to get confirmation even when credible people see or believe they saw something.
4evr, you say you came upon the track yourself. I asked that specifically because we get so many stories that are second, third, fourth,.... twenty seventh hand accounts of "the facts". You've never given any of us a reason to think you would lie on here that I've seen so my interest just went up a notch or two. It's a shame theprint got destroyed before you could document it. The problem is that we've still not been able to get confirmation even when credible people see or believe they saw something.
I will be going back there this upcoming weekend and I am going to scout the area around the creek and areas where there might be undisturbed tracks. If I find one and can document it, I will try to cover it with a milk crate or something to preserve it. I know it is unlikely I will find more tracks but I will try. Maybe take the video camera.
BUT ITS DOG TRACK .
12-15-2008 | 09:20 PM
#195
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RE: Mountain lions in PA!
ORIGINAL: livbucks
Somebody musta declawed that dog then.
Somebody musta declawed that dog then.
but expert looked at it for me that has seen cougar tracks a LOT and he says its a DOG.
i would like to say its a COUGAR
but i would not be honest to all of us and my reputation is important to me.i hope the PGC gives opinion too.
i hate to beNEGATIVE on this but that is best print i have seen in mud in long time and no way that print is fake,just we think its DOG and a big one at that
12-16-2008 | 01:16 AM
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RE: Mountain lions in PA!
A canine track has a triangular shaped center pad, the pad of a cat track has three distinct lobes, like a three leafed clover. Unless the dog was declawed, as has been suggested, his claws would be clearly visible in the track. A cat track may or may not show claws as theirs are retractable. An adult cougar track is roughly the size of an adult german shepherd track.
12-16-2008 | 04:53 AM
#198
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RE: Mountain lions in PA!
Thanks Sproul for the effort. I will accept that print as canine b/c there is nothing but speculation to think otherwise. I will say having seen the print in person that is a damn big dog and just as much a threat to wild game, if he is without owner he is history. We have enough coyotes running around we don't need 160 lb dogs roaming the woods too.
If I ever hear from the PAGC, I will let you know. Betting they say monster bobcat... any takers?
If I ever hear from the PAGC, I will let you know. Betting they say monster bobcat... any takers?
12-16-2008 | 04:29 PM
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RE: Mountain lions in PA!