UPDATE post 37 Not the kitty CATS you want to see in your yard GRAPHIC

[dsqard]

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Totally understand, it can't be easy to do at all.

 

[annie3001]

amazing pictures. you have to do what you have to do.

 

[puredelite]

Woah!! They were probably scopeing out a quick meal on your place. At that age wouldn't be a danger to your horses but anything dog-sized or smaller would be fair game. Dept. of F&G here in the East are in denial about the existance of them but there are just too many reliable sightings of them. Also of the black variety. Would be a great pelt to have tanned!

 

[Glenbogel06]

Choked me up a little bit too, but I understand. You do what you have to do. I had to shoot a coon that had killed almost half of our flock, and I cried afterward too and said a little prayer for it's soul. But I'd do it again, if I had too. And I'd cry again too!

 

[dmiravalle]

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I think I would be more worried about those that don't feel squat. JMO

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

Yes, they were both very thin.


We wondered about mom also - and called in a cat/bear hunter who lives a valley over from us. He worked the property with his dogs and could not find mom - thinking is that she took off the other direction, back up the mountain behind us.


We will be on the watch for her tonight - as he said mom might circle back to look for the cubs. I am really hoping she just stays far away from our property.

 

[Doormantnt]

Nice shootin'. What happen to second one??

Glad you did the right thing. Things would have only gotten a whole lot worse. But I bet momma is still around.

Mahonri -- what good would trapping have done?? I'm sure end result would have been the same. OP had no problem taking care of it on the loose, and not confined in a trap. Please don't say to relocate it.....Oh, I mean make it someone's problem.

Sorry for rant.

Nice shooting again, and get momma.

TNT

 

[dmiravalle]

I know this sounds morbid, but this is what the trapper had us do for a momma bear, he had us move the cub off our property but where the momma could still smell it, and said once she realized it was gone, she would leave. It did work. We saw her prints in the morning and then never saw her again.

 

[annaraven]

You did what was necessary. Tearing up about it just shows you're a good person who doesn't kill unnecessarily.

 

[easttxchick]

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Yes, ma'am.