One of my closest neighbours appears to be having his horses tore up by a cougar. No one up here knows much about these cats, they are pretty scarce up here. He had a stud scratched up and a foal killed the same day this spring, and a foal scratched up today. And now he's noticed a mare with infected scratch on her neck. Now one of the other neighbours is thinkin' maybe a couple of his yrlng losses may be related. Reason we think it may be a cat is we've never seen damage like this done by anything else we have around here, and certainly never seen anything get infected so quickly.
So the question becomes: without the use of dogs, how does on go about catching one of these critters. I assume they don't come to bait, if they do can they be trapped or snared? How big of territory do they have, and how often do they get around it? Are they mostly nocturnal? Any help appreciated.
So the question becomes: without the use of dogs, how does on go about catching one of these critters. I assume they don't come to bait, if they do can they be trapped or snared? How big of territory do they have, and how often do they get around it? Are they mostly nocturnal? Any help appreciated.