cougar shot in sask??

[sureshot]

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.

[buckee]

I can't find anything on the web

[sasksheds]

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.

[SaskMan]

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

[sureshot]

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!

[superguide]

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.

[sasksheds]

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

[SaskMan]

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.

[superguide]

There's a few here and there for sure.

[sureshot]

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!

[BeerSlayer1]

There was one shot by Swanson a couple of years back. The story was in the Star Phoenix.

[LDB]

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.

[monsterbucks1]

[ 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.

[hunter101]

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.

[Canadian_Goose]

I think it will be a while before they work their way that far east if they are in sask now.