What moves at Night

Well not a fishing report but what I seen and heard at quarter tell one in the morning last Friday the 22nd up here at Wolcott. Just to see if any one else has come across one or other reports. I have no proof of pics and I looked the next day for tracks but the sand was to hard and we got a little bit of rain. I did find a spot at the fence of a track indention but could not make any thing out clear. Been turning my Healers loose at night, that morning one was whining like crazy and the other light barking on the deck. I looked out the window the direction of the one barking and just outside of the light range. I could see the image of some thing that looked about 2ft tall with a long body and tail. Was thinking what the heck is that. When I cracked open the door and one of my dogs ran across my deck to the end of the ramp and gave a bark. Then what ever it was went down to the ground and I heard a growl like from a pissed off cat. Both dogs turned and started yipping and ran in through the cracked door I had open. I went back in to try to find a flash light but by the time I found one what ever it was outside was gone. In my mind I'm thinking it was a mountain lion/ cougar what ever you call them. I called a buddy down in Seymour and told him, thinking he might think I was nuts. But he told me of a story down their last week a guy got pics of two cougar on camera. He said he called the DNR after he was having animals turn up dead, they trapped one and relocated it. So who knows for sure stuff moving in from other parts or DNR turning things loose to repop things.

Certainly some mean looking critter sulking around in the night. Smart dogs. I would want to be inside also

While working second shift I was driving home when I got close to the lake the road gets curvy and had a 15 foot rock and dirt wall on one side and the lake on the other. As I started into the curve at the edge of the headlights I see a gold flash as something lands at the side of the road. It turns a leaps back up they wall and disappears. Pretty sure it was a mountain lion just by the way it moved. When the Shepherd was a pup I took her out when I eould get home after midnight. She is pretty fearless. That night she was losing it barking and trying to drag me back to the house bumping into my legs and trying to push me back in that direction. I scanned the woods with a flashlight
( dead of winter all the leaves were down) saw a set of eyes moving horizontally . Had no up or down movement like something was walking. Like a cat stalking. Never saw it again, but I was certainly prepared if it decided it wanted to step out of the woods

Yikes!


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It is only the illusion of being at the top of the food chain. Take away the tools and we are pretty fragile.

We have both mountain lions and cougars here in Ohio. My wife and I saw one off US 35 near Gallipolis, Ohio last year.

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Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie

We have both mountain lions and cougars here in Ohio. My wife and I saw one off US 35 near Gallipolis, Ohio last year.

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I always thought mountain lions and cougars were the same thing.

Puma's too

Whatever they call them I have no desire to tangle with one.

I’ve got pics on my trail cam and we see him every now and then grab a rabbit in the yard…male bobcat I would guess he will go at least 60 lbs and had a longer tail than normal. Others has seen him as he is the largest bobcat around. I’m up to my a#@$ in bobcats here as in one 24 hr period had more than 9 cross the yard and driveway. Got one female with 2:kits and later that day,,a bigger female with 3 kits. Every time we see a small bodied deer cross the yard,,,about 5 minutes later bobcat is tailing them Going to start shooting them if DNR doesn’t open trapping season on them even tho it’s against the law. Bobcats can have a long tail…google pics for it.

If they were to get into a man's chicken coop and ate a few they could be considered a nuisance. :dono

Anything that messes with my yard birds dies on this property.

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Originally Posted by BuckeyeCrappie

Anything that messes with my yard birds dies on this property.

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Exactly

They are into all the people’s yard birds and ducks around here. One guy lost them all this summer. I see one Everytime I am in a tree stand. Hate to mess my deer hunting up, but ready to rock and roll on them especially with the crossbow.

My neighbor posted this picture on her Facebook page and I copied it for posting to show others.

I don't know who's foot/shoe this is. It could be hers or one of her kids. It's a cat print in the sand/mud. They were building a new deck on the back of the house and found this foot print around the deck area in the soft ground. It's definitely a cat print and not a dog print.

This is on the outskirts of Evansville, IN.

Now some history of this area. When I was younger I use to walk about a mile into the woods down this old gravel road to my friends house. My friends father worked for the Post Office back then. This was in the late 1950's or early 1960's. Now the father would tell us stories about seeing a black panther outside in their yard. They lived in a wooden log cabin on a 6 acre lake. Now I would at times have to walk home in the dark down that long gravel road until I made it out of the woods into a more open area with a paved road. I never did like walking around the woods at night.

Now skip forward to the 2016 or so. A local newspaper ran an article about a sports writer walking along a trail and finding cougar foot prints in the mud near a creek which cross the human walking trail. This trail goes from the University of Southern Indiana to Burdett Park out in the county outside the city limits. The sports writer also claimed in the newspaper article that a source of his had seen a cougar in the woods just to the SW of USI.

Now we all know that Bobcats are back in Indiana these days. Too many photos have been taken of Bob Cats with trail camera traps these days.

Oh. One more thing. The people that lived in the house just to the East of my house had a rabbit cage that was about 2 ft up off the ground. The house was made of wood and there was a heavy duty wire cage across the front of the rabbit house to keep the rabbits in. One morning there was a fuss and we found that the wire on the front of the cage had been ripped off and all the rabbits were dead. There was blood in the area and rabbit fur as well. We all speculated as to what may have killed the rabbits and torn the wire off the front of the cage. This was not just chicken wire as it was a heavier gage wire that was stapled onto the wood on the front of the cage and the cage door.

Now after seeing this picture of the paw print in the mud around the house next door I refuse to go out at night anymore.

Good sized paw print. I used to feed the deer at the edge of the woods. When the Panthers would roam through the area you would have no deer to look at they would leave the area. That scream those panthers make will send chills down your spine.

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Originally Posted by "G"

I always thought mountain lions and cougars were the same thing.

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Mountain lions walk on four feet. Cougars on two!!!

:Rofl
I knew it was only a matter of time