Comments on: Was that a mountain lion?

By: Forsikringsselskaper

Forsikringsselskaper — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:13:26 +0000

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By: Jason Raiford

Jason Raiford — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:41:45 +0000

I live in Skiatook Oklahoma. WE were driving near Avant Oklahoma on some back roads. WE came up on a pond that is fed by a creek. As soon as my lights hit the pond, out jumped the biggest cat I have seen in this area. It was so fast I could not imagine out running it…even in a car. It had too be doing 60 miles per hour. This was a mountain lion. It looked like something from Africa!

We have also seen a large charcoal grey cat near the Skiatook lake dam in the spring. This cat was losing its hair and walked very slow across the road. This was not a house cat. I could see how big the shouder blades were while it was walking. This cat was more like a Jaguar.

By: John40656

John40656 — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:04:09 +0000

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By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:52:46 +0000

I live between Seminole and Ada, near Salt Creek. About 12 years ago my mother and I left my grandparents house and headed home. As we topped a hill just 200 yards from HWY 99 we saw a lion jogging up the hill towards the highway. It then turned and headed north and jumped a fence. There was no mistaking what this animal was! In recent years we have heard lions on salt creek and found tracks last year.

By: Kristina

Kristina — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:43:11 +0000

I live in Woodward, Ok. Northwest part of Oklahoma. I have friends that live on a farm and they have a mountain lion that comes around every year at a certain time. They have lots of dogs that go crazy at night, and they have even seen it from the back door watching the kids play inside the house(they have a glass sliding door). They have seen the tracks on there land by there barn and around the house. I have been there and at night we have to go and grap kids when it starts getting dark. Then I had another friend how was driving on a dirt road to a rig and seen one just lying there in the grass with its tail swinging back and forth over by Seling, OK.

By: Becki Glaze

Becki Glaze — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:50:47 +0000

I have tracks at one of my ponds on my property of a mountain lion and I have had a horse attacked, so I am sure there are cats here in central oklahoma,near wellston.

By: Becki Glaze

Becki Glaze — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:45:34 +0000

I live in central oklahoma near wellston. Two weeks ago i had a horse come up with bites and scratches that appeared to be cat claw marks. I went looking for any spots in the pasture where she may have gotten into something. I found large cat tracks rear the edge of one of the ponds on our property near the back of our barn. I have no doubt after finding the tracks that my horse did have an encounter with a large cat(mountain lion)

By: Sheila

Sheila — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:19:00 +0000

I saw a cougar this morning in McLoud Oklahoma, it crossed the two lane road right in front of my husband and me. We were driving west on SW 74 street (Parkway) at about 30 mph. No mistake and no doubt it was a cougar. This is the second cougar we have seen in the area in the last 18 months. We saw one on our 10 acre land last year, it paused and stared at us for about 10 seconds then ran off, it was about 100 feet away. Again no mistake no doubt.
Neighbors have said that their pet cats have come up missing recently as one of mine did also. all I found was some fur.

By: jacob samuel hidecker

jacob samuel hidecker — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:32:31 +0000

further up the list here i saw a comment about a lack of deer carcassas, i live in ponca city and hunt public land more than id like to admit (not very well connected) theyrs a few places called traders bend,bear creek,little beaver creek,and wolf creek , and up along the arkansas river by newkirk that i always find three to four deer carcasses whenever i go, they always have the fur plucked out of them and are near dense clusters of trees, im new to this topic but thought this sounded relevent

By: Just another redneck

Just another redneck — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:18:51 +0000

18 September. At dusk, world class kick boxer (over 100 victories) Karina Jackson, 35, was attacked by a cougar at her home about seven miles east of Newkirk, Oklahoma, near the Arkansas River. She had gone outside to check on a litter of American Staffordshire Terriers in a pen located about 75 feet from her house. Noticing a puppy was out of the pen, she went into a neighboring hay field to retrieve him. She heard something rustling in the tall weeds at the edge of the field. Not seeing anything she continued toward the puppy. Suddenly she felt something hit her in the upper part of her left arm and she was knocked down. “It felt like I got kicked by a horse or a cow.” Picking herself up, she saw a large cat running away from her. Frightened and stunned, she only realized she had been injurred after she quickly returned the puppy to its pen, ran to the house, and then noticed her arm felt wet. Click the above photo to enlarge.

Jackson was treated on the scene by EMT’s, then she received 29 stitches to close the 4 gashes at Christi Oklahoma Regional Medical Center at Ponca City. Kay County Investigating Officer, Deputy Michael Kent, met with Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) Game Warden Tracy Daniel at the hospital where they observed Jackson’s wounds and agreed they were from a medium size cat scratch.

Two weeks previously Jackson saw the same animal running across the road in front of her as she was driving home. “I had to lock it up to keep from hitting him,” she said. Earlier that same day, she had noticed the large cat in a nearby field. Those sightings had prompted her to contact Daniel, who in turn contacted some trappers to try to catch the animal. About September 11, 2002, Jackson saw the cougar again in her yard, drinking from a water bucket by an old windmill. During that sighting, the cat ran a short distance, jumped a fence, and then stood and looked at her. She picked up a bunch of apples and threw them at him. September 13, 2002, Kay County Undersheriff Buddy Thomas said that Carl Clapp, of Cedar Vale, Kansas, was called to the scene with his hunting dogs. “We’re not going to take any chances if there’s an animal out there. If we see any sign of the cat, maybe we can do something about it.” Thomas also said that the sheriff’s office has received reports of big cats in the same Arkansas River valley east of Newkirk, but the reports have never been substantiated. Despite many previous reports, Thomas said the cougar encounter was an “unusual happening, not common around these parts.” Others further speculated that because the cat seemed accustomed to humans, this could be a feral cat–one released or escaped from captivity, now wild.

Despite game warden Daniel’s claim that their department hasn’t been able to substantiate cougar presence in Oklahoma from numerous sightings, the presence of cougars in Oklahoma has been verified, with two cougar kills in recent years in Cimarron County. One cougar was hit by a vehicle three years ago, and another was shot by a landowner in his yard last spring. Sources: (Rural Newkirk Woman Victim Of Cougar Attack; The Newkirk Herald Journal; Wayne White; 09/26/2002) (K-State Research and Extension News; K-State to Record Kansas Puma Sightings; Kathleen Ward, Communications Specialist; 10/15/2002)