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Posted by ICB on 04-15-2014 02:44 PM:

Golf ball sized green eyes.....

Back in 98 I had a split tree going on about 1/2 mile apart. The first one had a basketball sized head and golf ball sized green eyes. The first thought that entered my mind was, " well, a cow or a deer can't climb 70 foot up a limbless cotton wood." Yes, it was a big cougar, male I would guess by the looks of its jaws and head. You want to talk about being in total shock. 1:00 AM in NW Missouri.... alone.... staring at a cougar with only CB's in my 22.

Pulled the dog off of that tree...while trying to look up at the same time LOL. Went to the 4 month old pups tree 1/2 mile away and he had a huge bobcat treed. I knew coming in that the eyes were too big for coon. So I treed my first cougar and first bobcat in the same 5 minutes. A night I will never forget.

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Posted by 4ester on 04-18-2014 02:20 AM:

Turkey, ground hog, fisher and mink. I didn't even know mink climbed trees!

Posted by dhostetler on 04-21-2014 11:48 PM:

Re: Golf ball sized green eyes.....

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Originally posted by ICB
Back in 98 I had a split tree going on about 1/2 mile apart. The first one had a basketball sized head and golf ball sized green eyes. The first thought that entered my mind was, " well, a cow or a deer can't climb 70 foot up a limbless cotton wood." Yes, it was a big cougar, male I would guess by the looks of its jaws and head. You want to talk about being in total shock. 1:00 AM in NW Missouri.... alone.... staring at a cougar with only CB's in my 22.

Pulled the dog off of that tree...while trying to look up at the same time LOL. Went to the 4 month old pups tree 1/2 mile away and he had a huge bobcat treed. I knew coming in that the eyes were too big for coon. So I treed my first cougar and first bobcat in the same 5 minutes. A night I will never forget.

I wonder if your first tree wasn't a female and your pup had a kitten treed. Cougar kittens 40 lb. and less look very similar to a bobcat, difference is one has a tail and the other doesn't.

Posted by ICB on 05-05-2014 06:18 PM:

Re: Re: Golf ball sized green eyes.....

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Originally posted by dhostetler
I wonder if your first tree wasn't a female and your pup had a kitten treed. Cougar kittens 40 lb. and less look very similar to a bobcat, difference is one has a tail and the other doesn't.

Nope, not even close. First cat would have weighed 150 lbs. Was a cougar no doubt what so ever. The bobcat also wasn't a kitten, guessing about a 20 to 25 lb female. This was actually the second cougar I had seen. The first was in 1987. I had it scoped at 4:30(sunny out) in the evening deer hunting. Scope on 9 power cat was at 80 yards. Pulled up to shoot a coyote..... but it wasn't a coyote. Watched it for about 30 seconds in disbelief.

MO has confirmed about 40 cougars in the last 15 years. No one around here is even shocked if you see them anymore.

As far as bobcats go I have seen around 30 of them in the last 10 years. Got a neighbor that trapped 48 in one season. One of my students trapped 3 last year and only had out 9 traps.

I was close enough to the one I treed to see the line down the center of the head, the eyebrow marks, and the coffee can ring on its face. Definite cougar.

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