Big Cat

[Scrounger]

Saw a cat today. And that's unusual. A cat ran into my house the first day I moved in; I chased it out and I haven't seen even one cat in the next 20 months. It's as if a battalion of CarpetMen went through and committed complete felinicide (?). But I saw a big cat run across the road today about 300 yards in front of me. Now Carpetman would instantly know the breed, the sex, the weight, and that it was feral (all cats are feral in his book) at a half mile. I only knew it was a cat by the way it ran. It was the size of an Irish Setter. I'd sure like to see CarpetMan try to stuff that one in his gunny sack...

[9.3X62AL]

Size of an Irish Setter? A bobcat, perhaps?

[carpetman]

Had an ugly possum in my trap today. I doubt it,but there could be an exception that all cats are feral. I would think higher odds of that than not all possums are ugly.

[Pop_No_Kick]

Had an ugly possum in my trap today. I doubt it,but there could be an exception that all cats are feral. I would think higher odds of that than not all possums are ugly.
Hmmmm. Possum, is it cooked yet, hehehe

Possum " The other white meat!"

chuck.

[kenjuudo]

Chuck;
Send me your address, come trapping season I'll send ya a couple hundred for the postage. Ain't sayin' I wouldn't eat a grinner if it came down to it, but those critters have some nasty feeding habits.

jim

[StarMetal]

Talking about eating nasty critters, well when chickens use to be raised on the ground I don't think there is anything filthier. Look at the ground in a chicken pen, it's bare!! They even eat the small stones for their gizzards, but anyways they eat everything including their poop. Thank god they raise them on wire floored pens now.

Joe

[9.3X62AL]

CHICKENS--THE ULTIMATE RECYCLERS

Now we know where the tree hugging weed eaters find their inspiration--their end game for us is a similar scenario.

[XBT]

I think Deputy Al is right on this one; an Irish Setter size cat is probably a bobcat.

These tend to be a bit testy if their toe is in a trap, and a big one is especially impressive. Might even make carpetman back up some.

[Scrounger]

I think Deputy Al is right on this one; an Irish Setter size cat is probably a bobcat.

These tend to be a bit testy if their toe is in a trap, and a big one is especially impressive. Might even make carpetman back up some.

I'd certainly give money to see him tangle with one of them. Maybe if we get a big enough prize, he'll do it. And he gets to sell the skin and make jerky from the rest of it. Same deal for the cat if he wins....

[waksupi]

I used to trap bobcat and lynx way back when. You would either need a really big bobcat, or a real small irish setter. Sounds more like a young mountain lion, to me.
I recently got an email from a friend in Holland, asking how to capture a mountain lion, that had turned up in thier local area. Very unusual, to say the least. He sent along some pictures. Looked a hell of a lot more like a melanistic black leopard to me, that had probably escaped from a menagerie of some sort. Massive shoulders, shorter face than a mountain lion, and several other different features. I advised him that it was likely to have better luck hunting them, than they would hunting it.

[waksupi]

Talking about eating nasty critters, well when chickens use to be raised on the ground I don't think there is anything filthier. Look at the ground in a chicken pen, it's bare!! They even eat the small stones for their gizzards, but anyways they eat everything including their poop. Thank god they raise them on wire floored pens now.

Joe

Yep, dirty critters, alright. And i hear some people eat them.

How could you eat something, that eats with it's pecker? Ick.

[wills]

eats with it's pecker?

[waksupi]

Wills, as far as I know, all birds eat with thier peckers. As you know, the chickens don't have lips. But some peckers are harder than woodpecker lips.

[shooter2]

Amazing how fast the conversations degrade sometimes.
I'm with Ric on this. Irish Setter size is likely too big even for a big Bob, though MT does grow some big cats. Ric, you may want to haul those traps out again. Son Steve, in Dillon, averaged over $350 each for his limit last winter. Tell your friend in Holland that a snare works about as well as anything if he can find the trail. Steve caught a 175# lion last year. Strictly by accident in a coyote run. Of course the lion hunters were ticked about that, but bad luck like that happens on occasion.

[Scrounger]

Amazing how fast the conversations degrade sometimes.
I'm with Ric on this. Irish Setter size is likely too big even for a big Bob, though MT does grow some big cats. Ric, you may want to haul those traps out again. Son Steve, in Dillon, averaged over $350 each for his limit last winter. Tell your friend in Holland that a snare works about as well as anything if he can find the trail. Steve caught a 175# lion last year. Strictly by accident in a coyote run. Of course the lion hunters were ticked about that, but bad luck like that happens on occasion.

OK, call me StarMetal... Maybe I exaggerated a bit. Take 20% off the Setter. Not that familiar with dog breeds.. It might have been a bobcat. We probably have more mountain lions here than bobcats. It was probably just a very large (feral) cat, a CarpetMan Special... Jerky on the hoof...

[shooter2]

Then again, maybe there is more going on in Area 51 that we even imagine???

[Jumptrap]

[QUOTE=shooter2]Amazing how fast the conversations degrade sometimes.

I hadn't noticed any degradation in the quality of the conversation.

I challenge anybody to show that a chicken doesn't eat with it's pecker.

Apparently, some are slow with the cerebrual uptake, became confused and supposed that a 'possum eats with it's pecker. Actually, when a possum dines, it eats pecker and all.....but a chicken, he/she only eats WITH his/her pecker. Quite a difference actually.

Extra-Extra.....read all about it..."Chicken Eats with His Pecker, Possum Outraged, Kills Chicken, Eats Pecker and All."

[XBT]

An old farm boy joke:

“Why don’t chickens pee? Cause they eat with their peckers.”