Pics of Cougar kill near a house

[Okanagan]

I took the photo above yesterday morning.  A friend who lives there showed me the remains of this whitetail killed and eaten out, almost certainly the work of a lion.  Five days earlier the man saw a pair of cougar kittens about 150 yards from this spot, near his shop on the ranch.   We guessed that a mama is staying near there for awhile with some little ones.  We could see partial pads of a large animal, lion or bear the only options, but no clear track.

The photo below shows where the deer apparently was coming out of an aspen grove down an open lane.  The first tufts of deer hair are 20 feet into the aspens, and then a large amount of deer hair right at the edge of the clearing, in the foreground of the photo.



The next photo is 90 degrees to the right from the photo above, showing where the lion killed and dragged the deer to where we found it.  Tufts of deer hair mark the first ten feet, and the deer may have been struggling along that part and then killed part way.  The dark patch that looks  like a cow pie left of center is entrails from the deer.  The eaten out deer carcase is in the upper left, near the edge of the aspens where we found it.  The grass shows a bent grass trail of something being dragged away from the camera position toward the carcase.  It had rained once since the kill.

[shaddragger]

  Some CSI stuff there! Cougar Scene Investigations!

[HaMeR]

Purdy cool write up. 

[slagmaker]

I am waiting on one of those computer generated recreations of the scene.

Cool write up. I would like to see a pic taken with a little more angle to it so we can see that mountain behind the building in the first pic.

[Okanagan]

I am waiting on one of those computer generated recreations of the scene.

Cool write up. I would like to see a pic taken with a little more angle to it so we can see that mountain behind the building in the first pic.

  Slagmaker,  thank you.  I will 'fess up that I cropped that photo specifically so no one could recognize the two snowy peaks that showed, and thus identify the location, though probably only local people to the area would recognize the place.