Cougars

Check out this post, which someone forwarded to me from a facebook page.  I had already delivered the two kittens, from the colony fixed last Monday, to their new caretaker.  I still have their mom or aunt, not sure which she is, here, in a cage, recuperating from her spay experience, which did not go normally.  She's fine.  And in my mind, when I saw this post, I thought of the kitten that went missing from Cheeky's colony. Cheeky's colony isn't that far from where this cougar posted about was allegedly seen. The kitten, a little black and white girl, sister of the darling orange and white boy I took to be fixed, had been there one morning for food and not the next.  She vanished just after Christmas. Never seen again.  After seeing that darling orange and white boy, I thought, if she looked anything like him, the bright white, oh my, like a neon sign for predators.  At that time however I figured eagle, hawk or owl.  Certainly I did not think cougar.  Now I'm thinking it may have been this cougar, on the move, taking anything easy.  Like a little kitten who thinks life is a joyous playground.

This location is extremely residential and bounded by I5, (the interstate), and Highway 20.  However, the cougar could have come down Spicer.  There are many fields along Spicer, some areas lined in trees.  The fields have sheep in them and I have heard no reports of livestock being taken.   I do think about the farm colony I feed not far from the location where this cougar allegedly was seen.  I say allegedly because you don't know if a person is just being dramatic or was drunk or high or just what.   Without proof, I take such sightings with a grain of salt but I also tuck them away in my brain, as a precaution, because I am out a lot at night.

I go out this afternoon to check out a new colony, off Knox Butte.  That lady mentions they have seen a cougar off and on, along the edge of the woods, there.  How far is that from the Home Depot cougar (alleged)?  Not that far.  I start thinking ok, its a travelling cougar and they all travel to some extent, the males much farther than the females, so maybe the Knox Butte cougar is the Home Depot cougar (alleged).   Then I think well, maybe the Home Depot cougar is really a big male getting a little off track in his pursuit of an in heat female (Knox Butte cougar).  Ha ha.  That's where an imaginative mind can take me.

Then I start searching out cougar sound video's on youtube, for the hell of it.
Here is a video, with only sound, of cougar calls, growls, hisses and whistles.


Here's one of a female in heat.