garyws":2vctmi4l said:
Could be a young bobat. They tend to play with their prey just for practice. If it was a puma he'd gone for the throat/neck area and drug it away for dinner.
This is what i think happened.....I got there when the cat was checking the calf out, maybe waiting for the cows to get further away, watching in a tree. I show up, the calf was curled up, and when i grabbed a leg to check the sex, he made himself heavy and stayed motionless....I then leave and make a round around this pasture which took maybe 5 minutes. In that time, that cougar came down and chomped down on the calf, then i show back up. I sure wished i had looked up because thats where he had to of been. No way to get out of this small grove of woods without going out into the open... There is a tree right at where this calf was that you can tell something climbs it a lot.
From the marks, there is one bite mark with one fang sinking deep into his spine and one off to the side..there are 2 scrape marks that smaller front teeth made...on one side, perfect claw marks with small puncture wounds from the claws sinking in. Maybe the cat wasnt that hungry, or maybe its just i drove up at the right moment. But, its a cougar, my vet confirmed by damage..and its in the same area as last years, confirmed by game warden, cougar attacks which killed 2 calves.. Not that i want it to be a cougar, or that i want to argue..I do have the calf here, vet examined and verified to safely say, cougar. So no need to continue to disagree...or argue the fact.. I agree its a rarity that one can be witness to seeing marks made by a cougar on something that lived..most dont.