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What do they smell like? I was running the Bush Hog on a road through the woods and smelled a strange smell which extended maybe 50 yards. Then I realized it smelled like cat urine. I have seen a mountain lion several miles away and neighbor said they saw big cat tracks along a creek about 2 miles away, so being concerned I didn't dismount the tractor to check around, but kept an eye on the trees and bushes on the way out.

DNR swears they are no lions here unless they escaped from someone keeping one(illegally, I guess) or maybe cats are cominmg up from Florida. I'm in SC., and yes, the 3S rule applies.

KEH
 
Don't prove to the DNR that they ARE around... you can't get in trouble for shooting what doesn't exist, right?
 
DNR just admitted we have them here after one was photographed on a game camera. As for the urine smell,does your area have a lot of problems with drugs, crystal meth labs smell like strong cat urine. Might be a good place to avoid,
 
I don't know about big cats because we in Michigan have only a few animals that have probably came in from out west and I have friends who have shot bobcats and they don't seem to smell but bear sure do smell if you get close to them. When they run across the road in front of you you can smell them 100 yds. away.
 
I seen a mountain lion here in sw Iowa a couple of years ago, told the DNR. They tried to tell me it was a yellow lab, I was on a 500 Polaris about 50 feet from it when it jumped up from the grass. Only smell I remember was from me, ha.
 
I've seen 2 this year. I was going north on rt 501 near Gladys Va. at the GP wood plant entrance and had to just about stop when one crossed the highway in front of me. Then saw the second one 2 weeks ago when going to do a calf check on my farm. Never thought about what they smelled like at the time and never got close enough to smell them.

Been carrying a rifle since I saw that one near my cows. If I can get a bullet in one I'll see what they smell like then.
 

Great. I don't know which is worse, having a dangerous cat on your place or a meth lab. That's a pasture which presently has no cows on it.

KEH
 
We have a few in north Mo, we have pictures and tracks. Conservation Agents say so far, they have been young males, but just wait till a young female shows up.
 
On the news tonight they said one was spotted in NE SD. Somebody had a field camera set up and had his picture. They roam a pretty big territory I guess.
 
According to the DNR, we don't have cats in this area either, despite several people getting pics of them, a local biology group that has followed the tracks of several cats found in a couple areas, and at least one horse killed by what the vet said was a cat. Yep, no large cats here.

I don't know if you could smell a cat, but I don't know why not. I learned to smell coyotes years ago during hunting, so I would think a cat would have a smell as well.
 
I'm up in Concord, NC and I saw several large cat tracks in the mud behind Dad's shop about 6 years back. I've also got a friend that had trail cam pics of a huge cougar/mountain lion/wildcat standing over a deer carcass that he had found covered up in the woods while hunting. He thought finding the carcass covered like it was was kinda strange so he mounted the trail cam aimed at it and later that evening caught the critter dead to rights coming back for supper.

Like everyone so far has said just because we are told they 'aren't here' it's all BS because pics prove they are.
 
Here in Western Oregon, the extension office says that if you have deer you can have cougar. I"ve seen them around. A few times while walking in the woods I"ve had the feeling that I was not at the top of the food chain anymore. Probably just my imagination...
 
They're around here in eastern Nebraska, also. One ran across the road in front of our car a year or so ago, and I've seen tracks on our farm.

I don't walk in the timber anymore without being armed. And my conviction on caliber is, "When in doubt, go bigger".
 
Son and I saw a cougar in 1975.Son had a better look at it than I did.I did see the back end and the long tail as it went into a shaded area.It was stalking a calf we were looking for.The first big shopping mall had 2 cougars in a cage when it opened.I asked my son if thats what he saw,he said yes.The was a photo at the general store of a cougar standing about 20 feet from 3 hounds.Experts said the photo was a fake.I came to Maine in 1966 and have never seen a black bear.Some are shot every year and a friend has met bears face to face while trout fishing.There are not supposed to be any rattle snakes in Maine.My grand children and friends were playing near woods and saw a rattler.Friends dad killed the snake with a shovel.He took it to the paper mill where Workers who grew up in rattler country said it was a rattler.This is in Skowhegan Maine.A cougar was killed on the road in Connecticut.Experts claimed the cat walked in from a western state.There were cougar sightings in southern MA in 1960.I went to the area and found good tracks in a muddy area near a brook. Never say never.
 
Yep, Large black one was seen by a DNR man in Oconee a few years ago and he told about it to a local paper.
DNR officially says they don't exist. One was seen by police officers on Clemson campus also.
 
(quoted from post at 16:23:05 09/21/11) DNR just admitted we have them here after one was photographed on a game camera. As for the urine smell,does your area have a lot of problems with drugs, crystal meth labs smell like strong cat urine. Might be a good place to avoid,
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That is some strong cat pee if it extends 50 yards. Backpack meth labs can be common around wooded areas. Byproducts of the process are very hazardous and can be explosive. More dangerous than the byproducts are the kooks that make the stuff. that being said, I hope it is cat pee.
 
Here in northwest Louisiana there have been reports of cougar sightings ever since I was a lad, but the wildlife people always denied that they existed. Problem is, through the years some were killed and photographed. My brother worked nights checking oil/gas leases in rural areas and saw several.

In the mid 50s I went to the back pasture to round up the dairy herd for evening milking. All the cows came charging through a lane at full speed, tails in the air. They got to the center of an open field and got in a tight bunch, all looking back toward the wooded pasture they had come from. The next day I found a big padded track in the dust over there. Never lost a calf or cow, though.
 
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