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From: SouthWest Ohio
OK..Well now you guys are gonna make me poke around on this thing with a stick. There have been bear and 'large' cats spotted two counties away from me, but haven't heard of any here. Just what I need in my back yard! I looked-up some 'scat' photos on the net, and havn't seen anything quite like these so far. The bear does leave a 'pile' and deer leave pellets. Coyote scat looks rather hairy, but I guess the 'composition' of these can vary quite a bit. If I knew how to do it, I'd post a picture, but I'd have to wait and find a fresh one.
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From: The hills of No. Calif.
This thread is going into the toilet...! Seriously, that's a biiiggg turd...I don't think I'd want to meet the manufacturer! Are you sure you got the dimensions correct? Take a ruler with you, and before you poke it apart with a stick, get down there and take some accurate measurements for us. Of course, to be a true country boy you gotta break it apart with your bare hands! (Kinda reminds me of those cowpie fights we had as kids. Ahhhh, those were the days!) -TD
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I know bears leave piles, but, the only animal I can think big enough to leave a solid 2x8 is a bear since that is pretty big and many meat eaters leave logs. Look for destroyed bark on near by trees. That is the other way to spot a bear. Though I would make a lot of noise before I got near a rub/scent tree a bear is using. Even a small 300 pound black bear is nothing to mess with unless you have a serious caliber weapon handy.
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From: SouthWest Ohio
The only weapon I have is a pellet gun that I use on the squirrels at my bird feeder. If I saw a bear near my house I'd call 911. One of these logs is near a salt block that I put out. I don't know if that means anything or not.
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I saw a bear turd tuesday. The bear had been eating so many berries it was easy to tell. Normally bear isn't as big as you describe; they don't have much of a constipation problem. Might be cougar. I've seen deer and elk look like that sometimes, but you can see the pellets in the greater, "mass."
If it's couger, you usually don't see them till they jump on your back. Keep an eye on your kids and dogs.
Mix a little Ex-lax with honey and pour it on a log. That'll fix em right up!
If it's couger, you usually don't see them till they jump on your back. Keep an eye on your kids and dogs.
Mix a little Ex-lax with honey and pour it on a log. That'll fix em right up!
Just what I need.
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From: The hills of No. Calif.
Cougars love to eat housecats too, so if you have any, keep 'em in the house. I guess they don't recognize them as kin, just as a quick snack! Hey, look at it this way, it's still better than the city with all the traffic, gangs, and crap...well, I guess you've still got the crap, just a different type! -TD
on edit: Also, as I recall, cougars can range up to 150 miles from their home base, so depending on far that other county is from you where they've been seen, you might want to call Fish and Game and have them check it out, if it its a cougar, they need to know.
on edit: Also, as I recall, cougars can range up to 150 miles from their home base, so depending on far that other county is from you where they've been seen, you might want to call Fish and Game and have them check it out, if it its a cougar, they need to know.
Last edited by TigerDan; Jul 9, 2004 at 08:55 AM.
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Sure, scare the crap out of it, then you can compare samples! I can just see the pic now, all teeth and claws, extreme close-up, sort of like the picture that they found in the camera in the ocean in "Jaws 2". (Remember, they found the camera, but not the photographer!) -TD