Not In Missouri?

[Gary Lange]

Now this Bobcat was real because I took the picture myself while out fishing on Table Rock Lake. I bet we have some bigger cats but this is the biggest I have seen.

[fisher19]

Around were i deer hunt just outside of Norwood,Mo a guy showed us some pic from a trail came that he supposibly had that took some pics of a cougar or mountain lion, im not sure but you could tell by the background in the pics that they wern't from down there. Theres alot of those out there. I have found tracks while hunting though that are cat tracks that are bigger than your fist in stone county. Just interesting to me. If its a bob cat its a big one.

[Micheal Kyle]

About 3 years ago a lady in the KC area hit a Mountain Lion, it took the MDC about a week to finaly admit that it was a Mountain Lion.

Befor my wife and I bought them Fly shop I managed a ranch out in Kansas he owned about 2000 acres which was down in Prescot, Kansas. If you dirve over to Hume, Mo. take 39 west on the curve where the state boundary sign is take a right that is state line road. He owns all to the left the acerage is all strip pits there were more holes than useable land, he just keeps it for the hunting and fishing.

We actually had a Kansas wildlife biologist that lived near the property and he had told my brother and myself to be carefull while hunting on this land that there where big cats on the property. We then were always on the look out never saw them untill we actually stayed over night and sat on a deer carcus. There was no question what it was the tail was alomost as long as the cat and the cat itself had to be aleast 5 feet long adn stood about 30-36 inches tall.

If the cats are that close to Missouri they are in Missouri, I think they have a range of about 50 miles I'm not sure though I will have to check on it.

I will say this too a lot of people will mistake a Bobcat for a mountain lion as you can see from Gary's pic which BTW great pic of a bobcat. From the distance they do look a little alike. This Bobcat does not hardley have any spots if he does have spots they make the hide look darker at a distance. Plus with the tail tucked under it could be mistaken. Remember the reason it is called a bobcat because of the tail, no tail at all. Alot of the time the Bobcats and Big cats when they see you they will run off not giving you enough time to properly id the animal.

Michael

[Dutch]

The pics may not be from MO but we do have the big cats from time to time. I saw one in Barry County and a friend of mine saw one from his boat on Table Rock.

[tgard27]

I am a true believer that mountain lions are making their way back to Missouri. I live in KC and Loch Lloyd Country Club has been talking about huge cat prints in their bunkers for at least ten years now. The greens keeper of this course is a very knowledgeable guy and knows bobcat prints from mountain lion prints. It took a lady hitting a mountain lion before local wildlife authorities would admit that mountain lions are in the KC area. Makes me wonder what is in our woods.

[Wayne SW/MO]

The Pine tree kind of gives the pictures away. The possibility of a big cat ending up in Missouri is real enough however. Cougars have a large hunting area and the toms will not allow any intrusion from a young tom, so off they go. The young Toms will travel until they find an area to call their own, so with virtually no hunting success in the areas they are plentiful, they'll end up some where. I don't think they'll ever become permanent because of the lack of breeding colonies

[Chief Grey Bear]

About 3 years ago a lady in the KC area hit a Mountain Lion, it took the MDC about a week to finaly admit that it was a Mountain Lion.

Michael

With all due respect, I don't think it took "about a week to admit" that it was a Mountain Lion but, weather it was tame or wild. There was a battery of test to determain a lot information on the animal.

[redbird]

If those were from Missouri, there would have been a black bear and an otter in the pic too. Kinda reminds me of the 10 ft rattlesnake with the grain bins in the background, a hoax also.

Yes Im certain these pics are from Missouri. What is errant about them is that they were actually taken in Crane just off the creek, about 300 yards downstream of the ball park.

[redbird]

I am a true believer that mountain lions are making their way back to Missouri. I live in KC and Loch Lloyd Country Club has been talking about huge cat prints in their bunkers for at least ten years now. The greens keeper of this course is a very knowledgeable guy and knows bobcat prints from mountain lion prints. It took a lady hitting a mountain lion before local wildlife authorities would admit that mountain lions are in the KC area. Makes me wonder what is in our woods.

Is Nels still the greenskeeper out there. I went through my chef apprenticeship at Loch Loyd about 12 years ago. There are some pretty big woods around there, Unfortunately they are getting smaller all the time.

[Al Agnew]

My brother in law told me tonight that a guy he knows had taken photos of three cougars with a trail cam around Terre du Lac in St. Francois County. I asked him how well he knew the guy and he said he'd never known him to lie. Said he had a copy of one of the photos. We had been out to eat, and when we got back to my BIL's house he dug the pic out of his truck. Sure enough, same photo as one of those above. Now he knows that guy does lie.

With the internet and Photoshop, you really can't believe much of anything you see in a photo these days.