Mountain Lions in Oklahoma

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William Suter

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I got a text this morning from the Ok Wildlife Dept. Seems someone has got a female with 2 kittens on camera in Osage County and in Cimmaron County they have a female with 3 kittens on a trail camera. I knew we had them all along but no proof.
 
IDK, but for years we would hear of someone, including myself, having a mountain lion sighting and people would think you were crazy or full of crap. Maybe both.
 
I’m about 99.9% sure I seen one in NY about 20 years ago, but our Department of Environmental Conservation says no. Even though one was hit by a car and killed about 10 years ago? :unsure: :rolleyes:

Hey… It’s NY. We don’t have a problem with illegal immigrants either if you ask our asshat governor!
 
Think they pass through about every state in the US. We don’t have a breedable population, but still get some roaming up from Florida. Now these are the normal colored panthers, the Black ones seem to be behind every tree down here yet none have ever stepped in front of a camera, lol.
 
With the amount of trail cameras in the world there should be pictures everywhere of any animal in existence. I have lived in lion country most of my life and have seen one that wasn't treed by dogs. And I called him in and shot him. But I have dozens and dozens on trail cameras. They are elusive in daylight. But where they don't exist or do in small numbers they are seen with great regularity but never leave tracks or show up on cameras. Wolves in certain areas are the same. Everyone sees them but again no evidence. Black Panthers and Bigfoot are in the same class.
 
I believe the key takeaway from the Oklahoma message is that there is now evidence of a breeding population of mountain lions in the state. Seeing young male lions roaming through is one thing, but an established population of breeding lions is something else.
 
A guy on the Campfire seems to think we have werewolves and lizard people but they live in a different dimension than we do and just pop in and out of ours now and then. Maybe that's where bigfoot lives too.
 
Odd sightings.,

My folks had an one go through their rural backyard in WI near Webster. The warden came out and verified it by the tracks in the snow.

My friend near Or MN had one cross the fire road while skijoring, exercising her sled dogs. She said it was quite a wreck when the dogs saw it.

I've had bear and lion tracks in the mud around my duck blind in coastal WA. My hunting partner saw one on the bank of the Humptulips River on the way out to the blind one morning. I saw bear, bobcat, otter, raccoons and deer but never saw the big cat.
 
At one point, probably 10-12 years ago, the company I work for tried some hiring from the local refugee center. The center suggested a nice Ukrainian kid. The catch was that he spoke zero english. The solution was to hire an English speaking Russian kid as well, who could act as a translator. I didn’t care for this, but our COO at the time knew everything, so they were hired and put in my shop against my better judgment.

The Ukrainian kid lasted about 1 week. I ended it when I caught him grinding a hunk of scrap sheet aluminum into a knife shaped blade in the metal shop instead of punching holes in the sign blanks as he should have been! But the Russian kid (Daniel) was pretty solid, so I kept him for a while to see where it went. He made it a few months before things went south with his health. Something about a problem with his heart, caused from taking some home remedy to lose weight that contained GUN POWDER!!!… :oops:

Anyway, one conversation with him, he told me that there were “Werewolves” on his grandfather’s land and that he had seen them. When I said that Werewolves didn’t exist, he told me that there were a family of them that lived in a “cave” in the woods. 🤪

Further conversation and a little deductive reasoning, he changed Werewolves into Wolverines, which again does not exist in our neck of the woods. Through more discussion and the help of Google images, we came to the agreement that it was a family of Fishers, and the “Cave” was a hole in a large dead tree! :LOL:
 
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