Your cats are much bigger than ours Jody. We have too many of that kind as well.or losing 17 yearly ewes and around 20 lambs in a summer.
Sounds like you need to (turn the hounds loose!)It is illegal to use dogs to hunt cougars here. So we have plenty of cats. The closest neighbor's Border Collies put one up a tree in the neighbors yard. A week or two later a chukar hunter shot one along the road about a mile passed my place. A couple days later I shot one sitting under a juniper 50 yards from the end of my driveway. A week later one ran across the road in front of a neighbor about half a mile upstream from my house. I wish we could turn the hounds loose.
That's a great picture Jody.this isn't the cat the dogs were on, it went 5 miles got into Cyclone canyon, got the dogs onto this younger cat which crossed open country only to be treed a 1/4 miles from the ranch house where Teny finally got her first cat.