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Cat sightings

by Twinsfan N.D. , Posted to Fishing Buddy on 02/01/2012 1:32 PM | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
Twinsfan N.D.

Joined: 01/05/2012
Location: N.
Just a qestion to the the group, been reading the mule deer post, and alot of people out there seem to think the decline in muley numbers, are due to the increase in cat numbers, My qestion is this, how many people out there have seen cats in there travels and how far east,  I live around forty miles west of the MN/ND border have seen lots of tracks but never a positive sighting, but the deer numbers in my area are way down also, and many many stories of animals, disapearing right out of farm steads without a trace, 
Re: Cat sightings
by skoalongcut on 02/01/2012 1:46 PM | Reply #1 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
skoalongcut
Joined: 01/13/2007
Location: ND
Every year there seems to be some sightings around my area. Enderlin over to Fort Ransom. Was a couple sightings about a month ago. But I myself have never seen one in the wild. Only in Chahinkapa…
Re: Cat sightings
by taylorman_55 on 02/01/2012 1:55 PM | Reply #2 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
taylorman_55
Joined: 02/24/2010
Location: ND
 Personally have only seen 1, and that was about a 5 second glance in the Beulah mine hills, a few days before that a few horses north of hazen had got ripped up pretty bad. Probably was about 2003 or 2004? I believe the same cat was seen a day or two later south/SW of hazen a few miles. Never heard of what happened to it or if it moved out of the area.
 
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by cynical on 02/01/2012 2:04 PM | Reply #3 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 10/27/2004
Location: ND
Two for me.   One on I94 just west of the Glen Ullin rest area and another 4 days later NW of Sand Springs, MT.  That was 4-5yrs ago.   Can't remember the exact year.
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by jade17h on 02/01/2012 2:15 PM | Reply #4 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 09/04/2009
Location: ND
Last summer my sister heard one while riding horse on my parents farm between Des Lacs and Ryder. I heard a neighbor saw one a few weeks ago but they are closer to Plaza/Berthold...
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by Morpheus on 02/01/2012 3:26 PM | Reply #5 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 10/24/2010
Location: nd
my girlfriend saw one on the north side of 2 just west of the railroad bridge just west of berthold about 2 months ago.  i saw one last year where 2 runs thru the white earth valley.  also i've got an aunt and uncle that live about 6 miles southeast of surrey ND.  my aunt was out workin with her horses one day and said a mt.lion came walking thru the trees around their little pasture by the house and sat there and watched her for a bit.  she went to get her gun but by the time she got back outside the cat was gone. 

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by FEASANT_HUNTER on 02/01/2012 3:41 PM | Reply #6 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 05/06/2011
Location: ND
Had a neighbor miss one on my family's land south of Turtle Lake last deer season. Don't know how they missed, caught it out in the open with no cover.... probably pissed themselves when they saw it!

Also had another neighbor see three last summer while discing his field... that one is not confirmed though.
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by garretts on 02/01/2012 3:44 PM | Reply #7 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 04/27/2009
Location: ND
Had three cross highway 22 right in front of me just north of the lost bridge in the summer of 2005. It was raining and they ran right up the clay buttes like it was no problem.

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by cotton_eye on 02/01/2012 3:55 PM | Reply #8 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 10/23/2011
Location: ND
I didn't personally see it, but the guy  who lives 1-1/2 miles south of where I hunt had one in his yard this year.  (Unit 2F1, Carrington area)
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by archer109 on 02/01/2012 4:04 PM | Reply #9 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 12/16/2001
Location: ND
Think I am up to 7 that I have seen with 2 dead, well 3 with kitten that game and fish shot. Lost count of sets of tracks over the last 6 years.  Also one on trail camera.
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by Tritonman on 02/01/2012 4:39 PM | Reply #10 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 12/04/2009
Location: ND
Mom saw one south of Hillsboro 6 miles about 5 yrs ago.  Didn't believe her till the mailman and neighbor farmer said they saw one in the same area the same day. 
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by solocam on 02/01/2012 5:08 PM | Reply #11 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 12/02/2005
Location: ND
I've only saw 1 and that was in MT hunting in 2010 for deer.

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by barebackjack on 02/01/2012 5:13 PM | Reply #12 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 09/26/2010
Location: ND
 All kinds of cougars over here.

I bet I see a dozen or more every weekend in downtown Fargo.

I think they're harder on little boys than deer though.
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by Science>Religion on 02/01/2012 5:15 PM | Reply #13 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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I've seen 2 in the Dickinson area. One while driving to high school several years ago. The second one was while I was bowhunting  a corn field with standing corn 2 years ago. I was standing in the middle of a huge field on top of a hill looking down into more corn and I could see the cat sneaking up on something. Then I couldn't see it anymore and I had to walk through corn that was over my head for at least a few hundred yards in every direction. That was the first time I have ever been scared while I was hunting. I now carry a pistol when I bowhunt.
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by dieseldog on 02/01/2012 5:24 PM | Reply #14 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Location: ND
fargoflyfish Said:
I've seen 2 in the Dickinson area. One while driving to high school several years ago. The second one was while I was bowhunting  a corn field with standing corn 2 years ago. I was standing in the middle of a huge field on top of a hill looking down into more corn and I could see the cat sneaking up on something. Then I couldn't see it anymore and I had to walk through corn that was over my head for at least a few hundred yards in every direction. That was the first time I have ever been scared while I was hunting. I now carry a pistol when I bowhunt.

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Re: Cat sightings
by bowhunter_24 on 02/01/2012 5:48 PM | Reply #15 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 11/07/2005
Location: ND
Zero for me in ND. I spend a lot of time in cat country but no sightings. Tracks numerous times but never actually laid my eyes on 1 out there.
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by fisherman25 on 02/01/2012 5:54 PM | Reply #16 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 11/26/2010
Location: nd
 1 in person and one in  a buddies trail cam in central ND.  
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by trentmx_05 on 02/01/2012 7:28 PM | Reply #17 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 11/13/2005
Location: ND
Bumped one out of a draw while stalking a muley on opening weekend 2010 between the North and South unit. Definitely exciting. Less then a half mile from the tent tho. That was a little nerve wrecking the next night, ha. Also, in the same area this season, the rancher told us he saw 2 in the same location this past summer. Must be a den in the area. When I bumped the one, you should have seen the deer that came busting out of the wood work in a panic and running all over hell. But I am sure they never get chased so I dont know why they were freaking out ....also, this season, a buddy arrowed a nice buck, 24 hours later we hiked past the deboned carcass and it had been buried...only a few animals do that...not saying it was a mtn lion for sure, but there def wasn't any grizzlies around.

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by thorson on 02/01/2012 7:32 PM | Reply #18 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 02/25/2005
Location: NE
I saw my first lion between Lansford and Forfar ( twice) in the late 80's and all who i told thought I was insane until a calf or two disappeared from and area ranch!
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by svnmag on 02/01/2012 9:54 PM | Reply #19 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Re: Cat sightings
by theSting on 02/01/2012 11:03 PM | Reply #20 | "Quote" | "Quick Reply" |
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Joined: 09/08/2011
Location: ND
Found tracks this fall right after deer season just west of Thompson.

A friends wife was leaving for work and was positive she had seen a mountain lion run in front of the car. So we went out looking for tracks, no snow of course, however we found the tracks on the other side of the section in the soft dirt on the side of the road. No question about it that they were cat tracks.

This same family had also seen one about three years prior to this instance as well.

We also found big cat tracks NW of Thompson as well. I believe it was 2007.

They're out there!
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Posted On: 02/01/2012 1:32 PM
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