Cat caught on camera is confirmed as cougar

My brother and I spotted a black panther in Cass county in the 60's. As far a cougars why not, there are quite a few in Kansas and other ajoining states. We have an abundant supply of deer why would the big cats not migrate into Missouri?

Two weeks ago I looked out my office window on a rock wall and watched a Bobcat walk by. A rabbit ran by quickly just before. It was only about 20' from the building. Pretty wild considering this in Mission nead I-35 and Lamar.

I've heard of cougars in the pemiscot county area but never seen one personally but i have seen bobcats,me and some friends were going fishing down in a wooded area on the river and there it was walking across the sand of coarse i kept my distance and the person with me was a few feet in front as we were walking. I finally got to scared and told him that i was going back to the truck....and that i hoped that if it decided it was hungry that it liked dark meat and not white that way i would have time to get back to the truck..It was funny at the time considering that he was black and i was white......guess you just had to be there. But they are beautiful animals but ummmm not to beautiful to set and look at.... :-)

I have 13 acres iut at Cottonwood. We have a cat that comes on the place alot. I have never seen it, but the tracks are as big as my hand. We also have alot of deer tracks on the place. We had a big problem last winter with the deer eating the hay we put out for the horses. The conservation agent here, told me that there weren't many deers if any at all coming on my place. However you can count atleast 15 different size tracks, he also told me the cat tracks were just a bobcat or large tom cat, that those are all we have in Missouri. I think they just don't want to admit that they don't know what all kinda animals we have running around down here.

We actually do have cougars out here in Boulder County, Colorado, and black bears. One resident recently called police to report that a cougar killed a deer in her backyard... Your rural Missouri sightings of both cougars and bears are most likely the result of methamphetamine-induced psychosis. Lord knows you hillbillies love your meth!

I have a good friend, who is not a dumb city-moron... she lived down in a creek bottom not too many miles from Mt. Vernon. She quite soberly told me of a cougar she observed crossing the dirt road leading to her place in the late 1990's. She is an artist who draws wildlife, and knows the difference between various animals.

That said, a bobcat is perfectly capable of killing and dragging off a fairly good sized calf, as well as a normal sized deer. Pound for pound bobcats are pretty ferocious. One could easily leave some claw marks on a heifer or even a cow, although the distance between the scratches would be much less than a cougar.

I remember back in 1997 when a mountain lion was spotted off of major road between blue springs and grain valley. the woman who reported it was told by conservation officers that she probably saw a big dog. but it was real, come to find out some people were keeping two of them as pets in grain valley. one died and one escaped.

Nathaniel you're a numb nuts, #1 Meth came from the west through your state by the way. They don't call it Rocky Mountain High for no reason. #2 The paw prints are entirely different from a bobcat and house cat not only due to size but also the claw retraction or lack thereof. Not being negative just pointing things out. Go to the sand bars on Black Island sometime the tracks are there.

Maybe a bobcat will drag nathaniel off.

bssouth2007 wrote:

Nathaniel you're a numb nuts,#1 Meth came from the west through your state by the way. They don't call it Rocky Mountain High for no reason.#2 The paw prints are entirely different from a bobcat and house cat not only due to size but also the claw retraction or lack thereof. Not being negative just pointing things out. Go to the sand bars on Black Island sometime the tracks are there.

I spent the first 40 years of my life in rural Missouri. Yes, I heard tales about cougar and bear sightings for years, usually told by a guy who just came from the local country tavern... By the way, Missouri leads the nation in meth production and has for years. I haven't seen it out here, "black tar" heroin seems to be on the rise instead in Colorado. ANYBODY SEEN MO-MO LATELY (the Missouri Bigfoot)?

Nathaniel Lyon wrote:

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I spent the first 40 years of my life in rural Missouri. Yes, I heard tales about cougar and bear sightings for years, usually told by a guy who just came from the local country tavern... By the way, Missouri leads the nation in meth production and has for years. I haven't seen it out here, "black tar" heroin seems to be on the rise instead in Colorado. ANYBODY SEEN MO-MO LATELY (the Missouri Bigfoot)?

Last I heard of MO-MO, it was serving as Lexington city administrator and calling itself "Abie". This was years ago, however.

i was born and raised in a small town in northwest missouri, right by iowa. i have seen panthers, bobcats, cougars(mountain lions), and have even seen a couple small black bears (honey bears). my dad actually has a huge bobcat stuffed that he got last turkey season. the thing is that the conservation agents will deny any claims about them being around. the fact is they have set some of them go including the rattle snakes that u see in the midwest. that is one reason why they wont admit they are around then people will ask them how they got here, also i think they just dont want the people scared of goin outside.

Hey Nathaniel, you say us "hillbillies" like our meth? Sorry that we aren't suffisticated enough to go for the same "pill popping rage" that you and your yuppie friends do. A high is a high. The only differences my dear, are that a pill popper isn't as detectable, and there is no worry of getting caught making it... beacause its handed out like candy.

Southernized wrote:

Hey Nathaniel, you say us "hillbillies" like our meth? Sorry that we aren't suffisticated enough to go for the same "pill popping rage" that you and your yuppie friends do. A high is a high. The only differences my dear, are that a pill popper isn't as detectable, and there is no worry of getting caught making it... beacause its handed out like candy.

Hillbillies are also into abusing prescription meds, especially painkillers... And these bug-eyed dope fiends are easily detected by their manic behavior. By the way, I hate yuppies, too.

Hun Meth is a Nation Wide problem/epidemic. Its not just for the lower class folks.

there are cougars in missouri i have seen one before

A few years back, maybe 5 or so, there was a dead cougar found on the side of the highway in Kansas City, I believe it was right off 1-35. If these animals do not exist in Missouri... could someone please explain how one found its way to get killed on the side of the highway?
Maybe the cops that found it were just some of those "meth using hillbillies?"
I didn't realize they grew them THAT ignorant in CO.

Nathaniel Lyon wrote:

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I spent the first 40 years of my life in rural Missouri. Yes, I heard tales about cougar and bear sightings for years, usually told by a guy who just came from the local country tavern... By the way, Missouri leads the nation in meth production and has for years. I haven't seen it out here, "black tar" heroin seems to be on the rise instead in Colorado. ANYBODY SEEN MO-MO LATELY (the Missouri Bigfoot)?

Nat-If you spent 40 years in Missouri then you got to be more of a hillbilly then most of us. Just because you moved doesn't mean anything. I bet if I came to your house you are listening to country music and probably cookin a little yourself.

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Nat-If you spent 40 years in Missouri then you got to be more of a hillbilly then most of us. Just because you moved doesn't mean anything. I bet if I came to your house you are listening to country music and probably cookin a little yourself.

this is cruel and rude i grew up in missouri and not everyone there are "meth cooker" or "dope head" there are some decent people there it is just that missouri has alot of backwoods and there is not enough law enforcement to control the "meth problem"

We saw a smaller one just outside our subdivision, right next to the river bluffs in St Charles. I think it was four weeks ago. He wasn't very big, maybe 40 pounds, his tail was long and thick.

Also heard of one being sighted just off the Katy trail past Defiance, about a week before we saw one.

Also, about tow weeks ago, my buddies grandfather took photos on his cellphone of a cougar, right along the bluffs, about 2 miles from where we had seen the one.
Conservation came out and took casts of the tracks. I am supposed to get copies of the photos next week. I will post them up when I get them.

I was in disbelief of the small one we saw by our house, my buddies grandpa getting photos on one 2 miles away is icing on the cake.

btw:
Back in 98 my brother came face-to-face with one on his farm in Blackwell MO....a week later there was a story in the local Defiance paper of the police having photos of one a person took on the outskirts of Desoto.