Cougar

[Guest jackdog]

I would think it might be a panther, There have been more and more sightings in TN in the last few years.

[Guest SUNTZU]

There's pumas in them crevices.

[Oh Shoot]

I would think it might be a panther, There have been more and more sightings in TN in the last few years.

Oh horse pucky.

I'll believe it when I see one as a documented fresh kill.

People see BigFoot all over the place, too.

- OS

[Almond27]

Oh horse pucky.

I'll believe it when I see one as a documented fresh kill.

People see BigFoot all over the place, too.

- OS

LMAO

[Guest looneeetunes]

this may sound crazy, and dont mean to hijack this thread, but i have a animal sound also i cant figure out, i heard it last night it is kind of a screaming sound and it is a wobbly sound. i have heard this thing over about 2yrs now on and off. and i have gone into the woods with a light, and it always illudes me. its almost a bird sound, but i have heard it walking thru the leaves. sounds like a smaller animal. i just proof read this i really sound nuts. but there it is

[Verne]

I was up at Deal Gap (The Dragon) last year for a bike rally. I was coming back from the dinner at Fontana Village heading towards Robbinsville, NC on HWY 28 around 11pm. I was staying at the Dragon Resort. About 3 miles from the Cross Roads, along the lake, the bike I was following serves to the center of the road and cranks on the throttle. As I get up to where this happened I see a very large animal. I know what a bobcat looks like and know that it wasn't one. It was cougar/mountain lion or what ever you want to call it. It just looked at me as I passed by like I was his neighbor. Not exactly TN but close enough for me to believe they are around in certain parts.

Verne

[Guest grimel]

Oh horse pucky.

I'll believe it when I see one as a documented fresh kill.

People see BigFoot all over the place, too.

- OS

Geez, you are as bad as TWRA, they don't believe game cams.

[Oh Shoot]

Geez, you are as bad as TWRA, they don't believe game cams.

You got a link to a game cam showing cougar in TN?

- OS

[Guest bkelm18]

this may sound crazy, and dont mean to hijack this thread, but i have a animal sound also i cant figure out, i heard it last night it is kind of a screaming sound and it is a wobbly sound. i have heard this thing over about 2yrs now on and off. and i have gone into the woods with a light, and it always illudes me. its almost a bird sound, but i have heard it walking thru the leaves. sounds like a smaller animal. i just proof read this i really sound nuts. but there it is

Chupecabra.

[Guest Verbal Kint]

Chupecabra.

[Oh Shoot]

Chupecabra.

Now, don't laugh. I've seen chupecabra (sp)!

Unlike TN painters, they're REAL!

- OS

[Guest SUNTZU]

this may sound crazy, and dont mean to hijack this thread, but i have a animal sound also i cant figure out, i heard it last night it is kind of a screaming sound and it is a wobbly sound. i have heard this thing over about 2yrs now on and off. and i have gone into the woods with a light, and it always illudes me. its almost a bird sound, but i have heard it walking thru the leaves. sounds like a smaller animal. i just proof read this i really sound nuts. but there it is

Careful out there in the dark!

[Guest tnmale46]

An old timer who was a regular at a liquor store I worked P/T at a few years ago told me a story of him shooting a panther the night before. I would not be suprised if Cougars/Panthers or whatever were still around. Lots of open land yet in the mountains.

Good advice for Sue to keep a shotgun handy. Worst I saw at your place was a skunk. But Daniel stayed in his tent so there was no problem.

theres some round here

[Guest SUNTZU]

An old timer who was a regular at a liquor store I worked P/T at a few years ago told me a story of him shooting a panther the night before. I would not be suprised if Cougars/Panthers or whatever were still around. Lots of open land yet in the mountains.

Good advice for Sue to keep a shotgun handy. Worst I saw at your place was a skunk. But Daniel stayed in his tent so there was no problem.

But Kat hated it.

[Guest grimel]

You got a link to a game cam showing cougar in TN?

- OS

I was there when the pictures were given to TWRA.

[Guest slothful1]

For what it's worth, peacocks also scream like women.

[Mike.357]

But Kat hated it.

what? that you stayed in the tent?

[Rightwinger]

Awww, man, I thought this topic was going to be about hot older women.

I thought the loser was going to turn in his wings again and Mav and Goose were getting another shot at Top Gun.

Back on topic (for Tungsten),

Wildcat, Mountain Lion, Cougar, what ever they were, they were alive and well in Wayne County up until the 50s at least and my father told me about hearing them with the EXACT same description, a woman screaming! In fact, and this is kinda of cool and Americana, my father, his dad, and a couple of his brothers were on the way to a neighbors farm on a horsedrawn wagon to listen to a boxing match because the neighbor had a radio! They heard what they thought was a woman screaming and turned and headed home thinking it was grandma. Grandma had heard the same thing but it was up on the ridge behind the house and it sure wasn't her! She had the shotgun out when the men folk got back to the house.

Ye gots ya a big kitty me thinks Mark!

[Guest SUNTZU]

what? that you stayed in the tent?

Yeah. I think this time we ought to keep our guns with us instead of locked up in the truck. I don't want to get eaten by a Wukalar while I'm at a TGO shoot.

[Smith]

I don't know about TN, but in NW Arkansas there are a bunch. It is definitely a weird thing to hear them. Over there you have to be careful with the Mountain Lions/Pumas/Cougars/ etc. when night hunting for coyotes and other varmints. They will definitely come out to investigate the calls. There has also been a rash of attacks out west from these beautiful animals. They are making a comeback nationally so it wouldn't surprise me to see them here.

[towerclimber37]

For what it's worth, peacocks also scream like women.

His wife knows what a peacock sounds like..we have one that visits regularly..but he's not shy and will come up and hang out on the porch...if she couldn't identify the sounds, chances are that it's not melvin...she KNOWS him.

[Mike.357]

think this time we ought to keep our guns with us instead of locked up in the truck. I don't want to get eaten by a Wukalar while I'm at a TGO shoot.

I don't need a gun, I just need to be able to out run you.

I have seen all kinds of wildlife at Mark's, deer, turkeys, a skunk. I have no doubt that there is more. Where there is something to hunt, predators are probably around.

(to stay on topic)

[Guest Boomhower]

I agree Mark, I think TWRA is wrong on this one as well. At my x-inlaws proprieties (their family all lived within a mile or so of each other) there was something of the sorts that regularly roamed about there, that made the same screaming sounds. Likewise, I know what a bobcat looks like, and this was no bobcat. It only occasionally appeared, but when it did it was always at dusk, nearer to dark, and was nothing more than a black figure that paced back and forth just inside the woods about 40yrds up the hill from the house. It was very eire leaving there at night and walking down the drive to the vehicle with that thing pacing parrellel to you in the woods.

[Guest SUNTZU]

I've had a TWRA tell me that there were no rattlesnakes in TN. I have found the rattles in Cove Lake park in LaFollette as a child. Here is a pretty one in Nashville.

http://tnparadise.blogspot.com/2007/06/yes-my-friends-there-are-rattlesnakes.html

[Mark@Sea]

Well, hey, if there are no cougar in Tennessee, they can't fine Sue for shooting that really overgrown housecat, then, can they?

By the way, I checked out that link. Big snake, but sorry if this offends you - it'd be best suited as a source for hatbands or some such.

Edited November 3, 2008 by Mark@Sea