sureshot Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 I seen some pics today of a huge tom supposidly shot near regina in the quapell valley, supposidly the wardens put a bounty couse it was killing cattle, it is huge!anyone know anything about it? find it hard to believe the wardens did that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? I can't find anything on the web Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sasksheds Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? LDB has found a cougar kill around his place.I think I found one the first week of Jan.There are cougars around here I know that for sure & I know how they got here.It was someone's bright idea to try & thin down the deer.Yet another brilliant idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaskMan Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? Cam, I can't beleive you're one of those guys who think DNR is to blame for cougars, I'm shocked....too much whiskey. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sureshot Posted January 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? I know there are cats here to I seen one 3 years ago bow hunting and many times seen tracks,just find it hard to believe the DNR gave the bounty to shoot it! I have also heard the little story about how they were put in the sandhills quit a few years back,heard it from a great shed hunter in swift!lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superguide Posted January 18, 2007 Report Share Posted January 18, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? I don't doubt they shot one there-I'd wonder about the bounty-they run along the river systems up here but are a pretty scarce critter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sasksheds Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? OK,my dentist told me yesterday that her husband saw a cougar south of Saskatoon by their acerage while walking the dog.About a week later it killed a deer in their yard.The DNR was called & it was a confirmed cougar kill.Now I am sure what I found Jan. 6th was a cat kill.Wish I would have taken a picture.She has also heard the story of how these cats got here.I know we have moose all over now & some natural migration along the river is bound to happen but I think the boys have made a serious mistake.Rumors just rumors.lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaskMan Posted January 19, 2007 Report Share Posted January 19, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? Do you really believe the DNR imported them?? Next thing I know you'll be telling me they also brought in grizzlies to control the black bears in the Meadow Lake park........I've heard that one too mnay times. Coffee shop talk my freind coffee shop talk. By the way, I saw on between the Turtle Lake turn and Meadow Lake, about 2 in the morning one night, I was the passenger so I'm not alone in my claim. Call me liar, call me crazy whatever..but it wasn't a deer, moose, elk, lynx, wolf or anything but a **** big long tailed cat. A local trapper nailed one ina power snare here 2 winters ago, it was in the local paper, serm took it. Superguide likely remebers, he was from the Neeb country. By the way...your p.m box is full Cam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superguide Posted January 20, 2007 Report Share Posted January 20, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? There's a few here and there for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sureshot Posted January 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? saskman talk to CLB, I believe he has a story about the river hills back when there was mule deer there before the massacure,i am pretty sure it was Cam telling me about it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BeerSlayer1 Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? There was one shot by Swanson a couple of years back. The story was in the Star Phoenix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LDB Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? The one shot by Swanson was shot by a client of mine at his brother's chicken farm. The stuffed body is in the Pike Lake park headquarters. A couple of months earlier, a friend and I spotted what was likely the same cat while out deerhunting only a few miles from where it got shot. However, we didn't know it at the time - we thought it was a deer. We thought it bounded through the deep powdered snow kind of strange for a deer, and it's tracks stopped completely in a heavily treed windrow. When we heard the news of the cougar shooting, we came to a mutual realization that the reason the tracks stopped is that the cat was probably up in one of the trees in the windrow looking down at the two idiots trying to figure out where the tracks went. Cougars are not uncommon in that stretch of riverbank and surrounding area from Outlook to Saskatoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsterbucks1 Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? [ QUOTE ] Do you really believe the DNR imported them?? [/ QUOTE ] a year or two ago we had talks around lower western NY of cougars being released for the deer population. A friend of mine has family that lives near Ashford NY and they said they got pics of one on there trail cam. So you never no about the DEC anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hunter101 Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? around this area there has been some sittings reported. Just this week my friend found some tracks on his farm that he thought might be from a cougar. the funny thing is that my popa, and 2 of my unlces trap just north of my house where all the sightings are coming from. you would think that they would have caught one by know since they put out fisher sets with meat on the pole and set coyotes snares with beaver carcasses as bait. It is all kinda suspisus to me. there is just rumours, but i geuss time will tell if there is cougars around here it only takes one bullet lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian_Goose Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? I think it will be a while before they work their way that far east if they are in sask now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hunter101 Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? yea i know it is all rumours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drkillemquick Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? [ QUOTE ] yea i know it is all rumours [/ QUOTE ] Actually a few years back I remember reading an article in Ontario out of doors where there was a case of a cougar in the windsor london area? I don't remember if it was ever discredited or not but you never know how far lone animals can sometimes travel! I have seen bobcats, perhaps thisthe tracks your friend has seen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hunter101 Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? could very possibly be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian_Goose Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? hey there could very well be cougars there too... I know theres rumors of them here so if they made it here, theres not doubt in my mind that they could be in ontario. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucknut Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? My buddy had the CO's come to his house to tell him not to shoot "their" Cougar.. he has property about 20 mins Northeast of Winnipeg.. My dad said he seen one about 2 years ago, 10 mins away from our farm in SE Manitoba. They are around more then people think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drkillemquick Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? In This months issue of Ontario Out of Doors there is a story in there of a suspected cougar attacking a 13 year old in Northern Ontario. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian_Goose Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? 20mins north eas of winnipg... that sounds like my neck of the woods... where is your buddy at? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckslayer Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? its a possibility, i can't find any information on it though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted February 2, 2007 Report Share Posted February 2, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? Maybe this is what you heard about [ QUOTE ] Big cat caught live in photos Tue Jan 9 2007 By Martin Zeilig Winnipeg Free Press PHOTOGRAPHIC history has been made with the first-ever pictures of a wild cougar roaming rural Manitoba. When a farmer near Duck Mountain Provincial Park came upon an elk calf that had just been killed, he suspected a cougar was to blame. At daybreak the next day, he had the proof: photos of the big, elusive cat returning to feed. Wildlife officials say his are the first such photos taken in Manitoba. Retired miner and farmer Guy Dew took the photos last Sept. 16 after encountering the male animal on land adjacent to his Swan Valley farm, which is on the edge of the Duck Mountains, five hours northwest of Winnipeg and about 15 minutes east of the Saskatchewan border. Bill Watkins, a zoologist with Manitoba Conservation, says Dew’s shots are the first showing a live cougar in the province. "Over the years that I’ve been with the wildlife branch, a lot of people have submitted photos. But this was the first one which was unequivocally a cougar. There’s no doubt whatsoever. ‘Excited’ "I feel excited about it," he said, adding that cougars are a protected species under the provincial Wildlife Act. Dew’s adventure began on a drizzly afternoon last Sept. 15 when he came upon a dead elk calf while scouting for a place to hunt elk. "It was recently dead and still warm. It was apparent to me that the calf had been killed by a cougar because of the puncture marks on its neck and the manner in which it was covered with grass and dirt. "At that point, I was satisfied that it was a cougar kill," Dew said in an interview. The next morning, he and three friends went out archery hunting. Dew said he made a point of walking to a site about 275 metres from the dead elk calf. "The light was just coming up and we were lucky enough to see the cougar feeding on the kill. The four of us watched for a few minutes and then retreated without disturbing it. We left him at the kill and then went on with our hunt," he said. After returning home, Dew and one other hunting buddy went out again early that same evening. This time Dew took along his digital camera. They walked back to the dead elk calf, but there was no sign of the big cat. "We stood there looking around for several minutes and suddenly he appeared, walking towards the kill. He began to feed again. "I took several shots with my camera and then made the decision to get closer," Dew said. Unaware of presence "There were a number of round bales of hay, so I picked out a route from bale to bale to keep hidden, taking pictures all the way. During this time, he fed on the kill and after he finished feeding, he proceeded to cover it over with dirt and debris." The cougar was unaware of his presence, Dew said. "I was there about 20 minutes and got as close as 56 yards (51 metres) from him." Watkins said Dew is the first person since Nov. 1, 2004 to sight a cougar in Manitoba. On that date, a 91-pound female cougar was shot by a landowner on the southern boundary of the Duck Mountain forest reserve. Just over a month later, a 115-pound male cougar was taken "accidentally by a licensed trapper" south of Riding Mountain National Park, just over 97 kilometres from where the first cougar was killed. [/ QUOTE ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntermq32 Posted February 3, 2007 Report Share Posted February 3, 2007 Re: cougar shot in sask?? The DNR released cats in souther Ill a couple of years ago. So It is possible they are to blame there to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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