Texas Mountain Lions....A Primer

[hayseed]

i live in kosse, tx its between college station ans waco off of Hw 6 there is a good population of lions there a few years ago we had a cat that would come into our yard nightly or we would see its tracks in our dirt road. We saw sign of him for about a week and then he dissapeared. We had the game warden come and look at the tracks and he agreed that it was a lion. a short time late my nieghbor found a doe about 10 feet in a tree. each year there are sighting and tracks are seen everywhere. if anyone is instested in this shoot me an email.

[toecatch]

Here is an iteresting piece of information on Mt. lions.Two years ago,my brother and I were hunting the Spade Ranch between Colorado city and Sterling city. On the drive to town one night, we had a cat run out in front of us. He wasn't much bigger than a large bobcat, except that his tail was as long as his body. The next day, we met up with the game warden on the ranch. I told him of our "sighting" and he told me that they were keeping tabs on a big female in the area, and that she had two or three cubs last year. We got to talking about "black" panthers.He said that T.P.&W. gets hundreds of reports a year of black panthers, but there has never been any physical evidence of a black Mt. lion,ever. No pics, or confirmed kills in recorded history.
This is interesting, because one of the places I trap, the landowner told me last year of a black Mt. lion that he himself had seen on his property.