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Posted by Tim Behle (Member # 209) on October 12, 2006, 12:20 PM:
When I came into work this morning, my partner was waiting for me with a story. Last night he decided to give some of his barn cats a couple of cans of canned food, as a treat over their normal dry cat food.
He feeds the cats in the back of his garage ( It's more like a pole barn with a concrete floor and an overhead door that he never closes.
This morning when he was leaving for work, he saw one of the empty cat food cans by the gate 50 yards or so from the garage.
He got out to pick up the trash, thinking a coon must have carried it out. Instead of coon tracks, he said the cat tracks in the dust next to the can measure 4.5" across according to the ruler on his Leatherman.
Last year, he got up one morning and found muddy lion tracks walk up on his back porch, and look in a couple of windows.
Maybe I need to go cat calling this weekend?
Posted by Lonny (Member # 19) on October 12, 2006, 12:45 PM:
Tim, When we used to chase lions, they often times went out of their way to check out abandoned homesteads. They would circle the place a couple times, look into the windows, there would be paw prints in the snow on the widowsills. Even occupied cabins attracted them for a look around. We always checked a few prime homesteads regularly for fresh tracks.
I can't count the times we would ask a rancher if we could have a look on his property for tracks and get the response, "I've lived here fifty years and never seen tracks, or a lion, on my property." I remember a couple of times barely getting out of the barnyard and turning the dogs loose on a hot track.
Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on October 12, 2006, 03:20 PM:
Lonny, they say the same thing about bobcat. LB
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