Comments on: Check these candid photos of a young mountain lion in the wild!

By: I.

I. — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:05:30 +0000

I googled photos of young mountain lions, and came across this website. I saw a few days ago -while driving through the mountain- some animal that fits the description of Biddy (beige color, strong muscular legs, long body, round ears and small face). It was running fast along the road. The strange thing is that everyone tells me there is not such a thing in the Pocono mountains (PA). I wonder if it was a dog. What kind of dog could it be with the size of a German Shepperd and round ears and small face?

By: biddy mccolville

biddy mccolville — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:16:17 +0000

Saw what looked like a VERY hungry, dehydrated young mountain lion two days ago here in the high mountains of south western NEw Mexico. It had very long legs, very long body, small head and small ears. Tawny, dusty color, no real markings on the body. I was close to it, about 15 feet, no whiskers visible, and wavy black stripes on its cheeks, these clearly demarcated. Looked like an adolescent mountain lion I thought, but soo hungry, somewhat emaciated, and thirsty. We are in drought here.
Anyone have any idea if young mountain lions have stripey faces? Biddy McColville.

By: joe

joe — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:18:43 +0000

That is NOT a mountain lion. I don’t know what it is but everyone has to have a personal mountian lion story regardless of the fact that the animal they saw was something else. Why can’t a person be happy to have seen an awesome animal like this bobcat without inflating it into something it isn’t.

P.S. I would be thrilled to have seen that bobcat. Really cool.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:12:50 +0000

I raised cougars (eastern, western and Canadian) for over 20 years and that ain’t no cougar…. There is nothing cougar like about the head. Ears are not round, coloration around the mouth is not correct and the snout is too short. This is more typical of a bobcat, caracal or lynx minus the spurs. Remove the long tail and its a bobcat.

By: jesse green

jesse green — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:12:38 +0000

I would love to rais a moutain lion cub. I have raised orfand lambs goats rabbits and things. How would I go about having that experence? I live on 60 acres in Jones county texas. My poatal adress is 16947 county road 341 abilene tx.79601 and my phone is 325-673-4459

By: Clayton

Clayton — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:17:18 +0000

This is definately a bobcat. The facial features, ear tufts, and the ears are pointed not round. Young mountain lions (similar in size) would be lighter colored than this and have spots on them. I have actual photographs that I took if you are interested.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:26:41 +0000

I have seen big cats all over the world in the wild and this cats looks like a bobcat from these pictures.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:15:57 +0000

Gary,
I have some interesting picutres on my trail cam. Would you like to look at them and help identify? Please e-mail

By: Gary Bogue

Gary Bogue — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:50:14 +0000

Rob:
Normally against the law, yes. When I did it back in the 1970s, I was curator of the Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek, CA, and ran their huge wildlife rescue and rehabilitation program. We had state and federal permits to care for injured and orphaned wildlife and to rehabilitate same. We got in a lot of bobcat kittens over the years and returned them to the wild. We also cared for songbirds, reptiles, wild mammals of every type, birds of prey, bears, etc. etc. I also had a special permit with Calif. Dept. of Fish and Game to work with mountain lions to develop a technique to raise and rehabilitate young orphan cats. DFG brought us 2-3 surplus zoo mountain lion cubs to work with over the years. An associate and I raised the cubs, “ran” with them in the wild to observe their interactions with nature. One of our cubs even stalked and killed a deer at about 8 months of age. We ended up rehabilitating the first, and I think only, native orphan mountain lion to be raised by humans and returned to the wild. We got it at about 2 months old. We developed a special radio tracking collar that dropped off after 3 months (we didn’t want to leave the cat with a collar stuck on its neck) and tracked the cub 24/7 for that time period to make sure it was doing OK after we released it. Those were definitely the “good old days.” /Gary

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:20:16 +0000

Just curious Gary but you say you’ve raised around 15 cats over the years? (5 lions, twice as many bobs) ins’t that against the law? I’m pretty sure it is here in Colorado.