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re: We have mountain lions y'all.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 9:31 pm to Hognoxious
Posted on 11/14/14 at 9:31 pm to Hognoxious
so my kids are running through the woods one day and come running back saying they saw something very big and black stand up and growl... "Dad, we saw bigfoot"
so I give them a camera and tell em to get me proof. Three days later a neighbor kills a huge black bear in the same vicinity of where the kids were playing.
Geesh...
so I give them a camera and tell em to get me proof. Three days later a neighbor kills a huge black bear in the same vicinity of where the kids were playing.
Geesh...
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Posted on 11/14/14 at 9:59 pm to Razorback Reverend
I saw one out in the road near Buck Knob if you know where that is and when I first saw it I thought it was a black dog. I was on a motorcycle and as I approached it I saw it was a black bear and I have never seen an animal move that fast running down the mountain--it was gone in a flash.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 10:12 pm to Litigator
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This post was edited on 11/14/14 at 10:24 pm
Posted on 11/14/14 at 10:32 pm to hoginthesw
Did you lose your compass? You don't need to be out there selling real estate without one. 
Posted on 11/14/14 at 10:49 pm to Litigator
You hush!
It's quiet alone time here in Plano in the Hoginthsw home. TD is where I don't have to be on it.
It's quiet alone time here in Plano in the Hoginthsw home. TD is where I don't have to be on it.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 10:55 pm to hoginthesw
Well you live in the same place as my brother-in-law. I really like that Frisco town nearby--lots of newness in that area.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 11:01 pm to Litigator
Too much! I sold/bought at the first of the year and the hubby wanted frisco. We spent one saturday morning there and I made it clear that would never happen.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 11:07 pm to theenemy
I think they are finally agreeing that there are likely some breeding pairs in the state. There are too many sightings for there not to be. I can't believe that those cats cross the plains from Colorado every year to just chill out here before going back to the rockies.
Posted on 11/14/14 at 11:13 pm to wmr
Black Bear range:
Cougars:
Elk:
Make it wilder, I say. Let em roam.
Cougars:
Elk:
Make it wilder, I say. Let em roam.
Posted on 11/15/14 at 12:35 am to wmr
I didn't realize there was a controversy, either. I've always heard that we had mountain lions, but have found the lack of sightings to be strange. Several decades ago, a man supposedly trapped one in my LR neighborhood, but I never knew if the story was true. I know of many bear, bobcat and alligator sightings inside the city limits of LR, but I've never seen one myself. I saw a very healthy coyote on Hwy 10 the other day, though.
Posted on 1/16/15 at 9:10 pm to redeye
Posted on 1/16/15 at 10:00 pm to wmr
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Stephens said bobcats - which are found statewide - are often mistaken for mountain lions.
I don't know about those yankees up there, but down here in south Arkansas, we know the difference between a bobcat and a mountain lion.
Posted on 1/17/15 at 1:08 am to WonderWartHawg
A few years back, I came across some very large animal tracks while hiking in the Flatside Pinnacle area outside Little Rock. I took several pictures and had them checked out via AGFC. I was informed they appeared to be large cat tracks (panther/cougar) due to the unique shape of the pads and due to there being no signs of claw marks. I was told that they definitely were not from a bear or large dog. They were maybe 4 inches wide.
This post was edited on 1/17/15 at 1:13 am
Posted on 1/17/15 at 3:42 am to wmr
My uncle is a retired forest ranger. He swears that there really is a controlled conspiracy to lie to the public regarding large predators including bears and mountain lions (cougars, pumas, whatever you want to call them-- Felis concolor in better words). I have seen three cougars and one bear over the past 10 years in the east Texas county in which I live. The official word, however, is that they don't live here.
The feeling in Washington-- according to Uncle Bill-- is that we rednecks can't be trusted with the truth here. Because too many of us would be out hunting to kill them all, all drunk and ignrnt.
Looks like one of us proved them right in Arkansas.
The feeling in Washington-- according to Uncle Bill-- is that we rednecks can't be trusted with the truth here. Because too many of us would be out hunting to kill them all, all drunk and ignrnt.
Looks like one of us proved them right in Arkansas.
Posted on 1/17/15 at 8:55 am to derSturm37
So the guy in question was out hunting Mountain Lions?
Seems legit
Seems legit
Posted on 1/17/15 at 8:55 am to derSturm37
Who is this guy and how did he get access to post here??
Posted on 1/17/15 at 9:06 am to derSturm37
Its sturm.
Posted on 1/17/15 at 9:12 am to wmr
Yes y'all do, but, I will not discuss what I observed crossing the rr tracks at 30 yards in se arky, no way.
Arky Green Jeans basically called me a liar, I called Arky Green Jeans a lazy, no count piece of shite.
I apologized, he didn't.
Arky Green Jeans basically called me a liar, I called Arky Green Jeans a lazy, no count piece of shite.
I apologized, he didn't.
This post was edited on 1/17/15 at 9:32 am
Posted on 1/17/15 at 9:34 am to wmr
Damn, I hate that someone killed that beautiful cat. Sickening. ... Is this the same one that a man from NELA who was hunting in Arkansas claimed he was about to be attacked by it, so he had to kill it? If so, I saw this story a few months ago on Facebook. At least I hope it's the same one - I certainly don't want 2 of them to have been killed in Arkansas. People had better not be hunting mountain lions in our state. The story I read back in the Fall about the N. LA man, I think from Bastrop, who was deer hunting somewhere in AR, not sure of town, just didn't ring very true to me & really pissed me off. Not cool if people are hunting those cats while claiming they're deer hunting, then concocting stories about being attacked by the cats, so the hunters had to kill them in "self defense." ... I haven't read this article completely, but I definitely will to compare to the story I saw previously.
Posted on 1/17/15 at 10:11 am to Ole Geauxt
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Yes y'all do, but, I will not discuss what I observed crossing the rr tracks at 30 yards in se arky, no way.
Bigfoot? People used to see him all the time around there when I was growing up, especially south of town close to the state line. I'm sure you've seen it a few times, OG. Dad had a friend who had a lot of property down there & he would see "Bigfoot" pretty regularly when he was hunting - you probably know him. The local paper did stories on the more credible sightings, which were usually his.
Dad went hunting with the guy sometimes just to try to see it himself, but never did. Hell, you might've been with them, sometimes, OG. Actually, the man who owned the property got a fuzzy picture of "something" that was published in the newspaper once. I remember thinking of Bigfoot as being like Santa or the Easter Bunny until that point. After the pic, (although you couldn't really tell much about it), Bigfoot was real to me, and I was terrified of the woods for a while. OG, I don't think "it" ever went as far north as the where the main camp is that you & the family used to hunt with, regularly, at least I've never heard of it being up that way. And I've never heard of mountain lions being around either of those areas, but have heard about black "panthers." No one had better shoot any big cats in my presence, though.
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