An unwelcomed guest…
These pictures were taken from a friend’s kitchen onto his patio deck in Wyoming. The cougar was watching his kids playing on the kitchen floor! Thank god he noticed it before he tried to take the garbage out that night…
UPDATE: These WERE images sent to me by my friend, and are not inaccurate - they were taken years ago - 2001 I believe.
For about three weeks last year, we had a bobcat living in the open area right behind our house. He was pretty well behave, unless you were a rabbit. I still only took the dog out when I was armed. ;o)
I SAW THE PHOTOS #3 OF THEM,AND THE COUGAR WAS LOOKING AT THE HOUSE CAT INSIDE
THE HOME, NOT THE KIDS !!!!
WHERE IS THE THIRD PHOTOS !!!!!
What is with the caps you idiot?. the AOL days of online yelling are over.
Who’s the “unwelcomed guest,” the homeowner, or the cougar who was no option to pick up and move? The unfortunate reality for this innocent animal, of course, is its eventual demise at the hands of humans because it has “invaded” our space. Maybe we’ll appreciate these animals once every single one of them is gone, since we certainly don’t now.
^pussy
I am from Wyoming- never seen anything like that before. Nice post.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/patiomountainlion.asp
you are made of lose.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/patiomountainlion.asp
He needs to wash his windows.
Bwahah Unwelcomed guest? Animals are always welcomed guests on my plate right next to the potatoes
Nice jorb, Digg.
GET A BRAIN MORANS
Brian and Brandon - Why don’t you two set an example for the rest of us and kill yourselves to help reduce the evil human population. Idiots
Hmmm…. Mejor no saco la basura esta noche…
Tiene cara de pocos amigos…….
I can has cheezeburger?
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/patiomountainlion.asp
Brian, welcome to… you’re a fucking liar.
Brian, welcome to… you’re a fucking liar.
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Just for your own safety, send the kids to take out the garbage next time - just like they do at my house.
regarding snopes. they confirmed authenticity of the photos as being from wyoming back in 2001.
here KITTY KITTY KITTY hahaha ps WOW
Why is it that all these tree huggers say “Poor animal. We invaded his space and now he’s got no place to go!”
I thought it was “survival of the fittest.” You can’t have it both ways. It’s evolution at work. Adapt or die, kitty-cat.
Hey Realist Guy — here’s real for you: It’s not about the fact that the kitty is cute and we should save it. There’s a balance — lions eat deer before deer eat too much vegetation, etc –and the more we mess with it the more it affects US. So it is still about survival of the fittest — which doesn’t mean, “the fittest kill everything else.”
hey david! why don’t you take your head out of your ass and realize that Brandon was sticking up for the dude who was all P.O.’d about the whole “unwelcome guest” comment. maybe if you read the comments you might understand, before saying something stupid. k??
owww… it’s just a cute little kitty cat….
http://www.spymac.com/details/?2343485
wow… thats crazy! that thing is damn big. Cant believe it came so close to the house, and was just walking outside looking in.
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It’s about “the fittest can do anything they want.” They are the fittest. If they mess up their environment too badly, they go away and another “fittest” takes their place.
I find it an oddity that so many well-intentioned, educated, rational people will come to the defense of an animal that CAN go live some place else, but would put huge burdens on people to “protect” this animal. If it truly is “survival of the fittest”, then let nature take it’s course and work it out.
Don’t game the system by trying to prohibit “the fittest” from doing as it pleases. I suspect that people like this SAY they believe in the “survival of the fittest”, but their actions belie the fact that they really don’t, otherwise they’d be willing to let nature take its course and allow the best to live or die.
Just me thoughts.
i agree. if you think people shouldnt invade animal habitats then you should be the first to live without a house. i doubt that that mountain lion was truely affected by that one house in wyoming, if it can’t live without the couple hundred square ft around that house then maybe it should die.
wait, i thought this was going to be pictures of a hot older woman??? hahaha
There are some real idiots in here. The world requires a delicate balance of all life in order to function correctly. If we all insist on destroying everything around us, because we are the fittest, we will inevitably end up extinct just like everything else.
This is a BS story. I’d bet anything this cat is somebody’s pet that they keep in the back yard. That apparent snarl is probably him meowing to be fed.
About 99.999 % of the time, all you see of mountain lions, coyotes, and bears is their back end as they flee. Why? Because they know how deadly we are.
Despite the airheads who want to believe those lurid magazine covers that show huge grizzlies standing on their hind legs as they attack poor defenseless hunters, wildlife is about a billion times more endangered from us than we are from them.
EVERY time a human is even bumped by a fleeing bear, we hunt it down and kill it, and every other bear within reach. Ditto for mountain lions, coyotes, etc.
Christ, we kill 3 to 4 MILLION dogs and cats a year in the US, and they’re the ones we LOVE.
People who see pictures like this and get all excited are dimwits. What they don’t know is that while they’re reading this, they’re missing a special program on Channel Zero — RIGHT NOW — about the soul-deep inner anguish of poor, poor Britney Spears.
PLEASE BRING BACK ALL CAPS FROM THE AOL DAYS.
KTHX BAI
I’m no eco-freak, but I’ve got enough biology background to know that you, Realist Guy, are ecologically retarded. Please try to know something before providing input.
I don’t pretend to have a solution, but there’s no question that we are screwing this place up (Earth, that is), and not many people seem to be taking notice. Hopefully you’re not with the Digg crowd, because if all those front-page stories aren’t getting through to you, I don’t know what will…
But seriousness aside, this is a fucking bad-ass photo set.
This “innocent little animal” as it were put is a predator and will have no issues eating your pets and children should they happen to run across it. Cougars are known to pounce on smaller animals and children / adults. There are many documented cases of this occurring and they are on the rise.
These animals are on the rise due in part to effective conservation. This is not a cute little kitty, its a pounce and attack your ass while taking out the trash kitty.
Nice pictures! What a beautiful cat. But if I saw that thing giving my kids the stare, I’d personally stuff and mount it.
That’s a big cat!
I think cougars and mountain lions are mostly unlikely to attack. One jumped up while me and my family were walking on an Appalatian trail in north Carolina. It was between me and my dad who was 40 feet away, crouching in the brush. And yea, all i saw was the back end of it after it jumped up and ran like the wind away from us, disappearing into the woods.
… It was crouching in the brush not my dad. I should have double checked the composition of that sentence.
Sean Bender—–> I’m wondering where you call home. Let me know and I’ll come out there to burn your house down to make room for these wild animals.
I don’t care how noble or endangered an animal may be, or if I invaded it’s natural habitat, or it mine. If I was in the kitchen and saw a cat that big eying my kids like that (”I can has kidburger?” is more accurate), there would not be any pictures of that cat (well not while it was living).
I own a shotgun for reasons like this (sorry, my kids take precedence over any predator; cat, human, or otherwise).
I’m a fan of cats, i have 5. I also know that large cats are some of the most dangerous creatures (to humans) that have ever lived. Pound for pound they are more than 10 times faster and stronger than any human, and more agile than pretty much any other land animal.
If you can honestly say that (taking those facts into consideration) if you saw that cat looking like that at your KIDS, separated from them only by a 1/4″ sheet of glass and would not do the same, you should have your children taken away from you.
Wildlife conservation should NEVER come at the expense of human life, that’s just silly.
Wow. All this arguing just because the cat was “unwelcome”.
There was no mention of killing the cougar. No “survival of the fittest” attitude. No attack of the kids. Nothing of the sorts in the original post. Just pictures of this animal looking in.
Sometimes we all need to just chill the fuck out.
Had a similar experience in 1981 - when I lived about 25 miles outside of Portland Oregon, up on Mt. Hood outside of the Hunchback Mountain wilderness. I drove home about midnight, after working the swing shift. As I pull up the long driveway to the house I noticed there was someTHING drinking out of the dog’s water bowl - I first noticed that it had a very long tail. It looked up at me (I am still in my car) and sure enough this was an full-size adult cougar. She casually turned - in no apparent hurry - and trotted off into the woods behind the house. Needless to say, I waited in the car a few minutes before I made my way to the house. Seeing as I was 8 months pregnant I wasn’t going to outrun anything. As I got to the door of the house I could hear my very large dog, Paco, inside the house whining and scratching at the door. He was in the house because he had recently injured one of his paws. As I opened the door Paco bolted out and with a quick sniff headed into the woods and up the mountain behind the house - baying all the way - au-rooo, au-rooo. Once inside, I noticed my cat pacing and meowing outside the glass door, anxious to get in. Of course the cougar could outwit my eager pooch and Paco returned by morning. I don’t think my cat went outside for a week!
Idiot should have shot the damn thing and made a rug out of it. I know I would if I had the chance.
So, umm here’s a question. When did this become a site for environmental arguments? Can’t we just enjoy the pictures and leave the political correctness and darwinian arguments someplace else? Doesn’t anybody have a sense of humor anymore? Have we as a society become so arrogant that we, and I use we as a general term, think that we as a species are the only one’s to affect nature? Let it go and enjoy things for what they are. Stop over analyzing everything and enjoy life for christ sakes.
The picture is cool. Animals will occasionly do tings like this. Makes for a great photo op and it’s kind of cool to see these.
ITS STEVE FRENCH
LOL BUBBLES.
Awee… He’s a cute guy.. I’ll call him “Steve French”… whoos a good boy!!!
I had a chipmonk in my living room. Maybe it wasn’t as scarey as a cougar, but you shoulda heard me scream!
Scott said:
“When did this become a site for environmental arguments? Can’t we just enjoy the pictures and leave the political correctness and darwinian arguments someplace else? Doesn’t anybody have a sense of humor anymore? Have we as a society become so arrogant that we, and I use we as a general term, think that we as a species are the only one’s to affect nature? Let it go and enjoy things for what they are. Stop over analyzing everything and enjoy life for christ sakes.”
Scott, I said what I said because these things DO matter. And true things matter. Lies and scare stories about wildlife have the side effect of getting wildlife killed for no good reason.
I lived in a little mountain town in California for 22 years, and one of my neighbors was a huge black bear. He came through my yard every night for several years, and I occasionally opened my front door to see him plodding across my yard about 10 feet away. Left alone, he was absolutely harmless.
The area was also mountain lion and coyote country, and a timid-er bunch of furry critters you never saw. In my years there, I worked with cowboys and outdoorsmen of every type, and I knew more people injured by horses and cattle than any sort of wildlife. I knew plenty of people who lived there all their lives and never even saw a mountain lion, yet I also know a woman who was attacked by a cow while riding her mountain bike, and ended up with a broken arm.
On the other hand, my 70-pound dog could run a bear off with ease, and I myself have run bears out of my garbage dozens of times.
Here’s my take on a more deadly — and much more common — threat to human life: http://hankfox.com/?p=100
best comments ever…”next to my potatoes”…but seriously…cougars are our friends…they are an important part of the eco-system / ecology…don’t eat them…
Dear Sean Bender, 28. February 2008, 10:30 -
What a self-righteous prick.
I thought I had a problem with squirrels here in Wisconsin , I take it all back. On the other hand they can give you a mean bite on the butt if you get in their way..squirrels I mean ,not Big cats. They just eat bits of you and bury the rest for later. The Cats do , not the squirrels. squirrels just sit on the roof and throw stuff at folks.
I for one think people need to stop popping babies out like they’re candy, and appreciate the other tenants of this planet, because right now, a majority of them are in danger of disappearing forever.
Yeah, i live in New york, so I’m not getting attacked by a cougar =D
My biggest fantasy was to lose my virginity to a female cougar -.- if only.
Looks like someone had bobcat steaks for dinner and acquired a nice rug for the fireplace…
Yeah nice cat. hope it eats the whole family.
And BTW that Carlotta band is so much crappier than the bands they were compared to.
Nope, not very good at all.
These pictures were circulating via e-mail years ago and were taken in Manitoba Canada, near Swan River if I recall. It is not uncommon to come across a cougar now and then even in southern most areas of Canada. Interesting, however not a big deal. If anything, this cougar was likely hungry and looking for garbage…
who cares, it’s just a cougar, and a small one at that
come to BC and you’ll see some real cats
A cougar came up to me in a bar the other night……
….and grabbed my ass,
These horny old women are getting out of control, but she did buy me a drink.,and took me back to her place.
proving you can be attacked by a couagr in NYC…..
ROFL i love it when people agru on psts its so pointless
What’s the matter? Did the internet run out of gay porn for you guys to look at?
This is why ” I ” don’t take the trash out at my boyfriends house. Thank god my house has the garbage can in the garage.
Could you imagine if only the screen was close and not the glass? Yikes!!!