Alberta Cougar Adventure

[bonedogg]

Last Friday the kid had no school and I was off work so I called a buddy that was looking for cats to see if we could help out. He was happy to accommodate and we him at his place to see if we could turn up a cat for a mutual buddy. We drove some lease and forest service roads all am. We saw one good track but it had been from the day before and we were looking for something that was fresh. we rounded a corner in the side by side to quite the vision.........

 

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The tracks were made within the last couple hours as there was next to no snow in the track and it was snowing at a decent pace.

 

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A call was made to our buddy in the city to grab his gear and race out while we got the dogs ready for the chase. He took about an hour and 30 minutes but we were ready and had a few hours of light left to release the hounds. we made it back to the track and it had been filled in quite a bit since we left which reassured us that it was smoking hot when we found it. The dog's GPS collars were working and it showed them chase for about 20 minutes and then they showed up as treed, going vertical on the GPS. It only took us about 20 minutes to get to the treed cat.

 

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We could tell he was a Tom and had frozen his ears off at some point.

 

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He was only about 7 yards up and on a leaner tree for some good pics.

 

[Dougfirtree]

Stout looking lion!

 

[RyGuy]

Awesome pictures! That’s interesting he’s got no ears

 

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[Pahoundsman]

Congrats on the cat. There’s nothing like listening to a good pack of hounds work a track. Great looking cat even without the ears.

 

[wyoboypt]

Looks like a beast. Nice work!

 

[Sask hunter]

Looks like fun!

 

[morley.tyler]

The title of this thread lead me to believe that we were headed in a different direction.

 

[Desk Pop]

Nice cat

 

[Elkmagnet]

Big cat! What did his teeth look like?

 

[bonedogg]

top canine was broken in half, the rest were fine. he was in great shape other than the ears.

 

[Valley1320]

Great cat!

 

[EYJONAS!]

Hell of a good looking lion thanks for sharing!