Close Encounters of the Feline Kind

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There aren't a ton of cougars around. They get spotted in the Provo suburbs, more in like Springville Mapleton area. But it's not like they are out and about regularly. I'd say there are cougars that are sighted in neighborhoods like 4 or 5 times a year. So it's not super common.

There was a cougar wandering around in Murray just last week. People were told not to let their kids play outside unattended and not to leave pets out at night.

Murray residents warned to beware of cougars

Murray residents are being warned to be on the lookout for mountain lions.

www.sltrib.com

 

[JimLes]

How many cougars are allowed to hunt per year in Utah?

I don't know about Utah, but here in Alberta cougars are allowed to hunt as much as they please. They tried introducing hunting licenses a few decades ago, but cougars had trouble filling out forms.

 

[bigb]

There aren't a ton of cougars around. They get spotted in the Provo suburbs, more in like Springville Mapleton area. But it's not like they are out and about regularly. I'd say there are cougars that are sighted in neighborhoods like 4 or 5 times a year. So it's not super common.

There was a cougar wandering around in Murray just last week. People were told not to let their kids play outside unattended and not to leave pets out at night.

Murray residents warned to beware of cougars

Murray residents are being warned to be on the lookout for mountain lions.

www.sltrib.com

They had to put at least one down in Bountiful earlier this year after it killed a deer in some dude’s yard. Plus there was a sighting of one at a park across the street from Bountiful High School at like 10 in the morning about 2 months ago.
There are plenty of them around.


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‘I don’t feel like dying today’: Utahn describes how he survived 6-minute cougar encounter

A trail runner stumbled upon a mother mountain lion and her kittens in Provo’s Slate Canyon. What happened next became the longest six minutes of his life.

www.deseret.com

Some viewers criticized him, others commended him for staying relatively calm and not running away. Officials with Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources had nothing but praise for him.

“You did great,” Scott Root, DWR’s conservation outreach manager for central Utah, told Burgess on Monday, where they met at the Slate Canyon trailhead. “You did awesome.”


Root, who first watched Burgess’ video early Monday, said it’s one of the most “emotional” and “terrifying” videos he’s ever seen of a mountain lion encounter.

“Oh man, you have to just stare at this thing,” he said, describing how he “didn’t even blink” while he watched. “Your heart is racing. I could feel myself putting myself in his position and (thinking), ‘What do I do? What would I do?’ And I know the steps, but what would the average person do?”

Root said Burgess did almost everything right. “He backed away. He didn’t go toward the mountain lion or her kittens. He made a lot of noise. ... He stayed large, he stayed loud and he backed away from the area for quite a while. I think he did everything really well.”....

Root said Burgess’ video is unlike anything he’s ever seen in his 30 years of working for DWR — and he said it’s going to be excellent teaching material. He hopes hikers and bikers learn from his experience....

I think the only thing he could have better is be louder. Kick his feet a little. Yell. He was talking the whole time, which is good, but he probably could have/should have been yelling loudly. I don’t think he could have picked up a rock any sooner, she was too close and might have pounced.


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[lauriandres]

I don't know about Utah, but here in Alberta cougars are allowed to hunt as much as they please. They tried introducing hunting licenses a few decades ago, but cougars had trouble filling out forms.

Well, i meant 4-legged cougars (if i properly understood the term on your post and if i know my english).

 

[JimLes]

Well, i meant 4-legged cougars (if i properly understood the term on your post and if i know my english).

Those have a three drink minimum before they're allowed to go out on the prowl.

 

[Miggs]

Still don’t get why he would film it. ****ing stupid. And spare me the “to document what happened to him if he died.”

 

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[Red]

Now that would give me PTSD.