What could be doing this to my dogs?

[Achickenwrangler#1]

We call em panthers out here, and I'm no expert with panther attack I do know large predators try to avoid each other in the wild, where an injury usually leads to death. Lgd are supposed to go out and look for predators, it's how there'r bred. I can see a cornered panther taking a swipe and then running so no, it wouldn't stay to fight necessarily. It may have a den near by which is why it's still there.
Good luck with the new dogs and things return to normal.

 

[Gallus Sapien]

Good luck with your new dogs

 

[Oregon Blues]

It's not a cougar. Cougar would leave parallel wounds and the swipe would be from the eyes to the nose, not downward. It would be a lot worse cut than that.

 

[Oregon Blues]

One of the idiots in town, here, opened their back door and found a cougar in his back yard. He set his pit-bull on it and the dog ended up with over 150 stitches and lost an eye. The dog lived because all the cougar wanted was to escape.

It was one of those 100 pound drug dealer pit-bulls, too, not a well bred, nice natured house pet.

Cougars will run from dogs, but if the dogs got one cornered, they'd come home with a lot more damage than that.

 

[highpointfarm]

except for the fact that their were 4, 100 pound dogs... Not one lol

 

[centrarchid]

Cougar not likely for another reason. Hounds, sometimes a very small number, that are quite a bit smaller than the OP's LGDs are used to tree the big cats by hunters / biologists. The big cats to not like to take on more than one dog. This may be because the cats have a mindset that dogs are wolves and one aggressive wolf means pack that can kill you is near by. This may not require prior expereince with wolves. Also, a cougar is not going to mess with even two dogs trying to get at it unless they are small dogs. Cougars are not as big as most people think.

 

[highpointfarm]

I agree with the size statement.... The thing is they are strong... Its Like a 4' body builder that can bench 300... lol.... AND he is lightning quick....

 

[flitter]

Cougars are extinct in the mountains of Pennsylvania, too, according to out State Game Commission. So many have been spotted that they have now decided that there is no breeding population. Just isolated individuals that have been "released" from small collectors and petting zoos. No comment on the " lone individuals" accompanied by their young. All the states seem to be telling a similar story.

Anyway, I'm glad that the dogs seem to have things under control. I've seen Anatolians work and they are amazing.

 

[centrarchid]

Cougars are extinct in the mountains of Pennsylvania, too, according to out State Game Commission. So many have been spotted that they have now decided that there is no breeding population. Just isolated individuals that have been "released" from small collectors and petting zoos. No comment on the " lone individuals" accompanied by their young. All the states seem to be telling a similar story.

Anyway, I'm glad that the dogs seem to have things under control. I've seen Anatolians work and they are amazing.

Cougars occuring outside the existing breeding range are almost all vagrant males unable to secure territories in breeding range. The release claims are to a large extent over exagerated. The states have no reason to claim no breeding when it is.

 

[Gallus Sapien]

Did you find out what it was?